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Like any good cult action flick worth its weight in fake blood and heavy artillery, director Troy Duffy’s 1999 film “The Boondock Saints” was skewered by critics and largely ignored by audiences upon release. Written as a knee-jerk reaction to the crime and moral depravity unfolding just beyond Duffy’s front door, his cinematic ode to vigilante justice took years to garner a solid following. Slowly seeping into the lexicon of frat houses across the nation via limited re-releases and DVD distribution, the bullet-riddled spiritual journey...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...simultaneously anger and entice her male coworkers while conjuring up nearly flawless crime scene assessments, recreating Dafoe’s investigative astral projection scenes from the first “Boondock Saints.” Benz—notable for her role in the 2008 remake of another cult classic, “Rambo”—gracefully mimes the seedy ballet of underworld gun fights, ducking imaginary bullets while cooing hypotheses to her flabbergasted colleagues...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...violent sentiment, combined with poor critical response, led to the shoot ’em up’s release being curtailed to a 1-week stay at only a handful of theaters; essentially, it went straight to video. Since then, however, it has acquired a bit of a cult, assaulting the hearts of adolescent boys and men across America. The film’s director, Troy Duffy, emphasized this in a recent interview. “Half of [the success of] ‘Boondock’ was one guy sitting the other guy down and saying...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Return of Boston's Patron 'Saints' | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...favorite procrastination tool is hitting the big screen. The evolution of Facebook is currently being converted into a movie entitled “The Social Network” to be released in 2010. Directed by David Fincher, the film hopes to build on Facebook’s cult following and is counting on the popularity of the social networking site among 16-25 year olds to increase its revenue...

Author: By LI S. ZHOU, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sun's Out, Guns Out | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...favorite procrastination tool is hitting the big screen. The evolution of Facebook is currently being converted into a movie entitled “The Social Network” to be released in 2010. Directed by David Fincher, the film hopes to build on Facebook’s cult following and is counting on the popularity of the social networking site among 16-25 year olds to increase its revenue...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cast For “The Social Network” Announced—Let’s Be Real, We Are Disappointed | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

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