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    Tribeca: Alice Eve & Neil LaBute at Some Velvet Morning’s Tribeca Red Carpet

    Monday, May 13, 2013

    Actress Alice Eve, writer/director Neil LaBute and others stop and talk to Pretentious Film Major Ben on the Tribeca Film Festival’s red carpet for Some Velvet Morning. For more information on The Pretentious Film Majors be sure to visit their official site.   Send to Kindle

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    Contest: Star Trek – Screening Passes

    Sunday, May 12, 2013

    Who wants to see Star Trek early!?! I feel like most of us Dorks feel like the picture above every time we hear the words “new Star Trek”. But go nuts because we have some free passes. Where: UA Riverview, Philadelphia, PA When: Wednesday, May 15th – 9PM Go to Gofobo and RSVP with the [...]

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    Review: Peeples

    Saturday, May 11, 2013

      He wants to ask her to marry him, but Daddy stands in the way and he can’t upset Daddy, or Daddy will say no. So in Peeples, what is Wade Walker to do? While it is the latest Tyler Perry film, Perry himself stays in the producer’s chair, letting Craig Robinson and Kerry Washington, [...]

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    Justin Long & Evan Rachel Wood Get Pretentious at TFF2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013

    Justin Long, Keir O’Donnell and Evan Rachel Wood stop and talk to Pretentious Film Majors’ Ben Silverio at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Red Carpet Premiere of A Case of You, a film co-written by O’Donnell, Long, and Justin’s brother Christian about online dating. The movie also stars Vince Vaughn, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Brendan Fraser, [...]

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    Video Review: The Great Gatsby (PFMChannel)

    Friday, May 10, 2013

    Zach, Devin, Izzy and Ben of the Pretentious Film Majors talk Baz Luhrman’s visual orgy of an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Starring Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fischer, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, the film features modern music from Executive Producer Jay-Z, as well as dynamic 3D visuals and [...]

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