The sex lives and interactions of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) seems a ripe topic for David Cronenberg. It sets expectations that A Dangerous Method cannot meet. His film – adapted from the play by Christopher Hampton – rarely goes for some of the beautiful discomfort that one would expect from the old genre master. Instead you got a modestly engaging piece about how both lives were changed by the work of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a patient turned psychologist and not-so-secret lover of Jung.

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After taking The Venice Film Festival by storm earlier this year (where we first reviewed it) Darren Aronofsky‘s highly anticipated masterpiece, Black Swan, is poised to dominate awards season. The psychological thriller set in the seemingly elegant world of the New York City Ballet stars an Oscar hungry Natalie Portman in a career defining performance. The film also stars Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel and opens nationwide this Friday.

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**Update: Read full review for Black Swan now!***

This morning, we posted some early reviews for Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Black Swan. It was chosen to open this year’s Venice Film Festival and so far the response has been positive. Overall our thoughts on the film have been confirmed — it’s creepy. To keep up that fear factor Fox Searchlight has released several photos from the film that feature stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel. Take a look…

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**Update: Read full review for Black Swan now!***

At the 2010 Venice Film Festival, the opening feature is Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. It’s a psychological thriller that stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder. There’s been plenty of buzz surrounding the film prior to its premiere and now that some lucky members of the press have seen it, the first reactions are online. Take a look…

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A handsomely-mounted two-film biopic that plays fairly well as one four-hour film, this tells the (adult) life story of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. On his return from Algeria in 1959, he embarked on a life of crime – as mob henchman, bank robber, kidnapper and daring jail-breaker – that ended in a hail of police gunfire in the very public Place de Clichy twenty years later. With a supremely committed performance from Vincent Cassel in the lead and a host of great French acting talent in support, it’s undeniably a  prestige production and one with which Mesrine himself, always keen to court media attention, would doubtless have been delighted. Which is not necessarily a good thing.

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Months ago we told you that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis were cast as the leads in the Darren Aronofsky film Black Swan, and now we’ve got a few more actors to throw into the mix. They’re all veterans in their own right, and each will add something different to the upcoming thriller. /Film is reporting that Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, and Vincent Cassel have all joined the cast in very distinct roles.

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