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There's an exceptional indie film that needs all the support it can get. The Brothers Bloom is the second feature film from auteur Rian Johnson, who broke onto the scene in 2005 with the high school noir thriller Brick. Bloom debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year (where I saw it for the first time) and has since played numerous other festivals all the while leading up to its opening this upcoming weekend, May 15th, starting in limited theaters.
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Summit Entertainment has released “Trailer #2″ for The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed indie high school noir film Brick. I use quotation marks around “Trailer #2″ because the movie trailer is no... Read Post

Brick, an ambitious amalgamation of the tropes of hard boiled film noir and high school movies, announced the presence of a major new player on the cinematic scene in its first time director Rian Johnson. Faced with the daunting tas... Read Post

When Rian Johnson makes a movie, he’s really making three. The first film is a love letter to a genre: In 2005?s Brick, it was detective noir; in 2008?s The Brothers Bloom, it was the con-man movie. The second is his twist on that g... Read Post