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Snow White and the Huntsman

This spring, moviegoers had the chance to watch not one but two feature films updating the Snow White story for contemporary audiences. (That's in addition to Once Upon a Time, ABC's fairy tale drama series, revolving around Snow White, Prince Charming, and the daughter who doesn't know her parents are fairy tale royalty.) Tarsem Singh got to market first with Mirror Mirror, featuring Lily Collins as Snow White and Julia Roberts as her wicked stepmother. It was terrible. But at least it was first!

Snow White and the Huntsman arrived a few months later: It matched Mirror with another Oscar winner in the wicked stepmother (this time, Charlize Theron), and bested it with a much more famous Snow White in Twilight star Kristen Stewart. Since then, of course, we've all learned the scandalous Huntsman backstory: Stewart's affair with her director, Rupert Sanders, leading to the end of both Sanders's marriage and Stewart's long relationship with her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. So you can rent the movie on demand and decide whether you can see any evidence of Stewart's wandering eye, I guess? Or just wait for Once Upon a Time; Season 2 starts September 30. And it's free.

I tried to figure out a way to write the intro to this Mark Duplass Q&A without immediately mentioning the one thing everyone always immediately mentions about Mark Duplass, I really did. But since Mark was nice enough to sit down at an L.A. coffee shop to promote his new movie, Your Sister’s Sister, while his wife was super, totally pregnant — like next-phone-call-rush-to-the-hospital pregnant — it’d seem weird not to mention that one thing: Duplass, the writer/director/actor/producer/slightly derelict husband, who frequently collaborates with his brother Jay, is an extremely adept multitasker. For Sister, a reteam with Lynn Shelton, who directed him in 2009's extreme-bromance Humpday, Duplass mostly worked in front of the camera — although he did come up with the idea for the movie and co-improvised much of its dialogue. He co-stars alongside Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt as three screwed-up people — two half-sisters and their shaggy-charm pal — working out the particulars of an accidental, unorthodox love triangle. In theaters June 15, it’s the latest addition to Duplass’s impressive collection of quiet, calculatedly uneven, happy-cry indies.