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Mike Flanagan has a taste for found footage films. That much is clear from the Absentia director’s Letterboxd profile. His activity on the social media platform for cinephiles makes it abundantly clear that he appreciates first-person Pov horror films. Flanagan even keeps a Letterboxd list of his favorite horror films, which contains multiple found footage titles. Among his picks is the unhinged found footage horror Rec 2.

The second installment in the Spanish-language found footage series comes from the same directorial team behind the first—Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The duo wrote the screenplay for the inaugural franchise outing alongside Luiso Berdejo. For the sequel, they teamed up with Manu Díaz on the script.

Rest assured that Mike Flanagan isn’t the film’s only fan, dear reader. Not by a long shot. Dread Central’s Mike Cameron reviewed the flick back in 2009, saying: “It’s scary and very clever,...

At first, Beverley Mitchell admits, the whole experience of becoming a mother seemed pretty unreal. Checking into the hospital March 28, "I felt like I was in Grey's Anatomy or something," the former 7th Heaven actress recalls, curling into the couch at her Hidden Hills, Calif., home June 21 as daughter Kenzie sleeps peacefully in the other room. "It wasn't until I actually got to hold her that it was like, 'Whoa, this is actually happening,'" she adds. "It was overwhelming, but at the same time it felt so natural."Now the actress, 32, and her husband, real estate investor Michael Cameron,...

A little friendly competition? Jessica Biel congratulated her friend and former 7th Heaven costar Beverley Mitchell on the birth of baby girl on Twitter Tuesday, April 2, with a funny quip. "I made French toast today and Beverley Mitchell made a baby. She wins. Congrats!" the 31-year-old wife of Justin Timberlake tweeted. "Thanks love!" the new mom responded to Biel's congratulatory tweet. "Now can I have some?" Mitchell, 32, welcomed her first child, daughter Kenzie Lynne, with husband Michael Cameron on March 28. Biel, who married Timberlake last October, [...]...

Beverley Mitchell's baby bump is as big as her personality! At the Biggest Baby Shower Ever event in Hollywood March 14, the 32-year-old 7th Heaven star joked about her new curves while chatting with Us Weekly. "I feel ginormous, but other than that I'm fine," the Gypsy 05-clad star said of being pregnant. "It's fun. It's a whole crazy thing." Expecting a little girl with Michael Cameron, her husband of four and a half years, Mitchell said she never experienced any unusual cravings. "I actually feel like I [...]...

The San Diego Padres drafted a kind of random college quarterback, Toledo's Terrance Owens, with their final selection in the recent Mlb draft - even though Owens isn't a baseball player. Owens hasn't played the sport since his first year of high school, in fact.

He told the Padres thanks, but no thanks, but it got my mind spinning. Great American athletes are not flocking to the game of baseball like they have in the past. African Americans in particular are abandoning baseball at a young age in favor of basketball and football, and the number of blacks in baseball has plunged to post-integration lows. 

But I've always fantasized (and I mean that entirely non-sexually) about how awesome it would have been to see Allen Iverson on a ball diamond (he was a hell of a high school Qb an Db on the gridiron), and I've always thought that if Michael Vick weren't left-handed,...

What happened when Lloyd Dobbler and Diane Court went to England? We may soon find out.

Cameron Crowe is in the midst of promoting "We Bought A Zoo," which marks his return to the feature film world after a six year absence following the disappointment of "Elizabethtown." As he told Vulture, he may make an even longer awaited return -- back to his first film he directed, the iconic 1989 flick "Say Anything..."

"There were many people who got upset when I said it's the one thing I would think about doing -- something more with Lloyd's character or one of the side characters," he said. "It's almost like there's an author that you like, and he brings back a character from a previous story. Like, Salinger, even. There's a shadow of a previous story, but characters that you knew, sort of. And you go off on this tributary to another story with them.

Sometimes even the best of us get stuck with our foot in our mouth. That seems to be what happened with Cameron Crowe earlier this month when he told an audience [1] he would consider making a sequel to Say Anything and that he'd spoken to John Cusack about it. He has thought about where kickboxer Lloyd Dobler and valedictorian Diane Court might go after the end of the film and he has spoken to Cusack about it, but it was years ago and at this point, Crowe doesn't want to ruin that personal film with an unnecessary sequel. Read exactly what he said, and some of his ideas about where it could have went, after the jump. Thanks to IFC [2] for getting to the bottom of this. Right off the bat Crowe said he was surprised his quote circled around like that and said the film is "definitely a pipe dream,...

Cameron Crowe went to the Television Critics Association press tour last month to talk about his upcoming documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty." But one statement the director made about a twenty year old movie ended up garnering all the headlines.

Asked by a reporter whether he'd ever consider a sequel to 1989's teen rom-com classic "Say Anything...," Crowe replied that it was "the only thing" he'd ever written that he "would consider doing that with." And with that, the movie blogosphere was off and running, running articles like this and this and this.

"I was very surprised that got picked up and repeated so many times," Crowe told me last week during our conversation about his upcoming film "We Bought a Zoo." Eager to clear up comments he thought were blown out of proportion, Crowe said any sort of "Say Anything..." sequel is "definitely a pipe dream."

"it's a personal thing for me,...

It's not that I have issues with reporting rumors. Rumors are fun. In fact, there was a ridiculous one making the rounds yesterday that involved a remake of Three Men and a Baby, in which the three leads were in a gay, polyamorous relationship. Even more absurd was the idea that Adam Sandler was behind it, and that Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade would play the leads (I think someone even suggested that Sandler would be playing the baby). Now, that's stupid. And its fun to report because everyone knows it's stupid and almost certainly would never happen. Sure, Three Men and a Baby remake is inevitable, and it obviously would suit Adam Sandler, but a gay polyamourous version? That's just silly. But fun to report.

What irks me is the idea that a lot of sites will get our hopes up about projects, usually mentioned in passing,...

Planes, trains, automobiles--and ferries. The site helps you plan your trip, while ruining another '80s comedy.

A new travel site called Rome2Rio launches today, the brainchild of two ex-Microsoft employees, Michael Cameron and Bernard Tschirren. The site's main innovation? It's vehicle agnostic, in a way--you tell it you want to go from A to B, and it'll tell you what combination of car, plane, train, or ferry you need to take.

In that way, it's more like the "how to get there" in a Lonely Planet guide, points out VentureBeat in its story on the site today. Rather than piece together information from here and there, Rome2Rio aims for the all-inclusive experience of simply reading a paragraph in a guidebook.

And it goes further than that, too--to be truly useful, any travel site needs to let you book flights. Rome2Rio does that, presenting Kayak airfares, which...

At least someone in the Lohan family has some brains.

Michael Lohan Jr., younger brother of train wreck Lindsay Lohan, is changing his last name to differentiate himself from his crazy family.

According the The Hollywood Gossip, he will be known professionally as Michael Cameron. Cameron is not his middle name, so I'm not sure why he picked that, but I guess anything is better than Lohan, right? His middle name is reportedly Douglas, which he obviously can't use.

Smart move if you ask me. Who can blame him?

 

 

Do you think changing his name is a good idea? Will it really make a difference?

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Michael Lohan's son is changing his name to disassociate himself from his father. Michael Lohan Jr., Lindsay Lohan's younger brother, thinks that his name is holding him back so he will reportedly be changing his moniker to Michael Cameron.

TMZ TV first joked that the junior's name was holding him back in life. As it turned out, Michael Jr. was already thinking about ditching his name for a while, but he made up his mind when he saw the TV segment.

Sources told the website that he will be soon called Michael Cameron so no one can mistake him for his publicity-hungry father anymore. He allegedly plans to use his new name on his upcoming movie he is starring in, produced by his mother Dina.

Michael Lohan Jr. has decided he's had enough of the moniker that links his him to his infamous father, so he's changing his name ... TMZ has learned. We joked about it on TMZ TV this week -- that the name "Michael Lohan Jr." was holding him back in life. Now ... sources close to Junior tell us he had been thinking about changing his name for awhile, but our TV segment was the straw that broke the absentee camel's back.

Lindsay Lohan's brother is starring in a feature film produced by their mother's production company. Michael Cameron Lohan, the younger brother of the recovering addict, will play a heroin user in the film "Growing Defiant."

Mom Dina's Defiant Pictures will start production on the film in early 2011, according to the press release obtained by TMZ.

"Growing Defiant" will center on three lifelong friends from upper middle class Long Island, who have delved into the underworld of illegal substance.

Co-producer and partner of Defiant Pictures, Ethan Terra, said, "We at Defiant Pictures are beyond excited about Growing Defiant, it is a remarkable Anti drug, Right of Passage, Intense Crime Drama. Michael Cameron Lohan has that rare quality of being a great actor, deeply appealing, and perfect for the part."...

(This marks the beginning of our 80s week, where -- over the next three days -- each of the site's critics will post reviews or commentary on notable 80's films, as we did in previous years for the 50s, 60s, and 70s.)

We often cry out for the good ole' days, when movies were better than they are now. But most of that is simple generational discrimination and selective blindness. You can look at any era and find as many bad movies then as there are now. It's just that our memories of the bad and forgettable have faded, while the gems cling desperately to our collective consciousness.

But where it concerns romantic comedies, it is absolutely true. They don't make 'em like they used to. When is the last time you saw a studio romantic comedy that was not premised on a high concept? That didn't involved a contrived misunderstanding?...

The Toronto International Film Festival '09 is in full swing, and you'll be happy to know that Dread Central has partnered with the fine folks over at The Substream to bring you daily video coverage of the event that will feature news, interviews, and maybe even a couple of reviews here and there.

The Substream unites savvy, passionate cinema gurus, movie watchers, and filmmakers. By lime-lighting the genre shifting movies, the techniques that create them, and their little known facts through fresh video content, The Substream provides an entertaining space for movie experience enhancement and hot debate in a community of comrades.

Check out the first video below and then check out Mike Cameron, Editor-in-Chief of The Substream's Jennifer's Body review here.

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