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Richard Kelly, writer-director of superlative cult hit Donnie Darko and sprawling mess Southland Tales, is once again at no loss for ambition.

Rod Serling's ghostly shadow looms large over the latest film from the director of Donnie Darko a ' but what's the problem? It's a hell of a show to take cues from Rod Serling, creator and presenter of The Twilight Zone Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature In certain eyes, the impending release of The Box , the third film from the still ...

It's easy to write yourself into a box and hard to think outside it when you're making yet another psyche-out thriller - one of those in-your-head and under-your-skin flicks.

Richard Kelly certainly doesn't suffer from a lack of ambition. The 34-year-old filmmaker's latest apocalyptic thriller - after the cult-ratified Donnie Darko and the willfully obtuse Southland Tales , neither of which did squat upon their initial theatrical releases - is rife with impressive production design, a genuine sense of creepy foreboding ...

As the writer/filmmaker responsible for the densely-detailed and intense films Donnie Darko and Southland Tales , Richard Kelly returns with another mind-bending sci-fi tale called The Box .

Release Date: November 6, 2009 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Horror/Suspense, Thriller Run Time: 115 min.

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Richard Kelly's new thriller is set in the 70s because people had more anonymity then.

Moon director Duncan Jones has lined up his next project, and he's sticking with heady science fiction.

I can't imagine that adapting a short story that's already been adapted into an episode of "The Twilight Zone," and attempting to extend it into a feature length is an easy task.

Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in a sci-fi murkfest. James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in "The Box" "The Box" is an overlong mess of a movie that's nevertheless eerie and unsettling.

In this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, Dave Chen , Devindra Hardawar , and Adam Quigley chat with writer/director Richard Kelly about his reaction to S. Darko, and about the necessity of reading the graphic novel prequel to Southland Tales .

When I chatted with Richard Kelly several months ago , I walked away with the impression that THE BOX was going to be a smart, but largely conventional suspense flick based on Richard Matheson's super-short story "Button, Button". I was cool with this, but what I really wanted was a return to the unsettling ambiguity of DONNIE DARKO .

Open up "The Box" at movie theaters this weekend and you'll see some 200 local folks.

When we first took note of Jake Gyllenhaal, way back in 1999's October Sky , we never even dreamed that his career path would one day incorporate a "major action hero" phase.

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This week, Dave Chen , Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley assess the state of Avatar's marketing, discuss their thoughts on the Men in Black series, and lament the imminent death of Miramax.

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Opening on November 6th is writer/director Richard Kelly's "The Box". The movie is set around a deceptively simple moral dilemma.

Opening next Friday is writer/director Richard Kelly's "The Box". The movie is set around a deceptively simple moral dilemma.A An average couple is offered an opportunity to get themselves out of financial difficulty: a million dollars, in exchange for the knowledge that their acceptance of this gift will result in the death of one person somewhere ...