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Name: Robin Ruinsky
Location: New York
Reject Since: December 2007
Email: robin@filmschoolrejects.com

Bio: Robin Ruinsky has been a writer since penning her autobiography in fourth grade. Along the way she's studied theater at Syracuse University, worked with Woody Allen starring most of the time on the cutting room floor. A segue into the punk rock scene followed but writing was always the main focus. She writes for various crafty, artsy magazines about people who make craftsy, artsy collectible things. But her first love is writing fiction and film criticism which some people think are the same thing.


Posts by Robin Ruinsky:

Mia Wasikowski is the New Jane Eyre?

Mia Wasikowski is the New Jane Eyre?

Mia Wasikowski, Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is in talks to step into the role of the plain Jane governess who finds true love with Mr. Rochester, that guy with the crazy first wife residing in the attic of his foreboding mansion Thornfield.

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Why Do Vampires Always Go Back to High School?

Why Do Vampires Always Go Back to High School?

Just imagine. You’re immortal. You have forever lain out in front of you. The road of your life is endless. You can do anything you want. Go where you please. What do you choose to do? Go to high school. Yes, you read this correctly. You go to high school.

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Edward Woodward dies at 79

Edward Woodward dies at 79

You may not recognize the name, but you should recognize the face. Another great actor lost this year.

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Cormac McCarthy: A Blood Meridian Movie is Possible

Cormac McCarthy: A Blood Meridian Movie is Possible

Novelist Cormac McCarthy is no stranger to seeing his literary vision adapted to film. And despite plenty of folks saying that his work Blood Meridian would be unfilmable, McCarthy has hope.

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First Photos from the Set of Redford’s The Conspirator

First Photos from the Set of Redford’s The Conspirator

Collider has the first photos from the set of Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, his film about Mary Surratt’s role in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln.

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Spotlight On: The Killing of Mary Surratt

Spotlight On: The Killing of Mary Surratt

A while ago I wrote about Robert Redford’s upcoming film about Mary Surratt, one of the more controversial players in the Lincoln assassination. After which I was contacted by Chris King, who made a short film on the same subject…

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Michael Mann Sets Up to Shoot Capa

Michael Mann Sets Up to Shoot Capa

Michael Mann wants to direct a film about famous war photographer Robert Capa, but there’s no word on how he’ll deal with Capa’s soiled legacy. Only how he’ll deal with his bitterly personal love story.

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Barbie is Ready for Her Big Screen Close-Up

Barbie is Ready for Her Big Screen Close-Up

It’s coming. Can you feel the excitement in the air? Finally after what seems like a lifetime of excruciating anticipation, Barbara Millicent Roberts will have her day in the cinematic sun. Better known by her nickname, Barbie, she’s on her way to a theater near you in a live action film.

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Patrick Swayze: 5 Roles That We Will Never Forget

Patrick Swayze: 5 Roles That We Will Never Forget

Patrick Swayze died yesterday after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of fifty seven. But we all know that actors live on in their work, frozen forever at different stages of their lives and their careers. Some of them, like Swayze, are imprinted on our minds in roles that make them larger than life.

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The Deeper Meaning of The ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Poster

The Deeper Meaning of The ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Poster

Robin Ruinsky delves deeper into the images and symbolism of two famous faces and a couple of angry colors.

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Guillermo Del Toro: The Hobbit Will Not Be in 3D

Guillermo Del Toro: The Hobbit Will Not Be in 3D

3D Hobbit? Not so according to director Guillermo del Toro. Rumors have been flying that del Toro was planning to take Tolkien’s classic and turn it into a 3D Hobbit Experience.

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Karl Urban is the Villain in Priest

Karl Urban is the Villain in Priest

The on again off again film adaptation of Min-Yoo Hyung’s manga series Priest is on with Paul Bettany as the renegade Priest and Karl Urban newly added to the cast as the villain Black Hat.

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Robert Redford Conspires to Direct Lincoln Assassination Movie

Robert Redford Conspires to Direct Lincoln Assassination Movie

Robert Redford will take on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he directs The Conspirator.

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Warner Bros. Assembes LEGO: The Motion Picture

Warner Bros. Assembes LEGO: The Motion Picture

Transformers, watch out. LEGO is going Hollywood. The Danish toymaker behind the snap together building blocks has given the go ahead to bring the toys to the big screen.

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Ridley Scott Takes on Brave New World

Ridley Scott Takes on Brave New World

It is back to the future for director Ridley Scott, who is developing a film based on the 1931 Aldous Huxley classic “Brave New World”.

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Sean Bean Leads HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Sean Bean Leads HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings) has been cast as the lead in HBO’s adaptation of “A Game of Thrones” the first book in George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire”. The series consists of four books with three more in the works.

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Elmore Leonard’s ‘Freaky Deaky’ Headed for the Screen

Elmore Leonard’s ‘Freaky Deaky’ Headed for the Screen

The master of the edgy, humorous, gritty thriller will see his work on the screen again. This time it’s his 1988 novel “Freaky Deaky” that’s been tapped for a screen adaptation

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Emily Blunt to Be Adjusted by Matt Damon’s Bureau

Emily Blunt to Be Adjusted by Matt Damon’s Bureau

The newest adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick novel just added a stellar actress to the project. Either that or she’s way too young for Matt Damon. Whatever you think.

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Warner Bros. Buys Midway Games Assets

Warner Bros. Buys Midway Games Assets

Midway Games loss appears to be Warner Bros. Pictures big gain.

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Discuss: What Should Indiana Jones’s Next Adventure Be?

Discuss: What Should Indiana Jones’s Next Adventure Be?

Proving yet again that old actors never die (they just keep playing the same roles), Harrison Ford is poised to put on the fedora and return as that most adventurish of professors – Indiana Jones. At least, that’s the word on the street.

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