Steven Spielberg ’s semi-autobiographical film has added Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood vet Julia Butters to its growing cast.
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In this latest batch of movie news stories, we have the first reactions from the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln at NYFF, Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in The Low Self-Esteem Of Lizzie Gillespie, written by Mindy Kaling, Laika has dated their next project for 2014, and much more.
Time travel has always been a popular device in science fiction storytelling and the new thriller Looper uses it to great effect. It lays out a future society in the year 2074 where bridging the gap between the past and present is possible but also highly illegal. Writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) balances heavy ideas in his most accomplished feature to date but also manages to be complex without being alienating, the toughest nut to crack in time travel stories.