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Director: Sergei Bodrov; Screenwriter: Chris Weitz; Starring: Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Kit Harington, Alicia Vikander; Running time: 102 mins; Certificate: 12A

It's been a rocky year for Oscar winners embracing roles in fantasy blockbusters. Eddie Redmayne delivered a pungent ham and cheese performance in The Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending, while Julianne Moore turns it up to 11 for her role as an evil witch in this week's Seventh Son.

Moore was years away from even setting foot on the set of Still Alice when she made Seventh Son (it's been trapped in post-production hell for a while), but it does make you wonder if there's some truth to the myth that Oscar winners seem destined for an immediate career stumble. Moore at least seems to be having fun with her role as Seventh Son's Mother Malkin. To say she's chewing the scenery would be a slight misnomer seeing as so...

Seventh Son is the Chicken McNugget of movies. You know there are better options out there when it comes to your chicken-eating selections, but something about the greasy simplicity and drive thru nature of the McNugget calls to you. Before you take a bite you know what you're going to get and to hide the actual taste of the nugget you drench it in a dipping sauce. As your teeth crack the crisp (if it just came out of the frier) outer shell and squish through the processed meat inside, your mouth is covered with a viscous layer of... something, preventing the taste from leaving your mouth long after you've swallowed. In an effort to fix this you take another bite, this time dipped in even more sauce, but the result is the same. The McNugget is a mirage. It isn't chicken and no amount of sauce is going to...

Just Jared is reporting that Bridges (of True Grit, and just generally being amazing, fame) has come aboard The Seventh Son, in which he’ll play an exorcist. The film will also star Alex Pettyfer (the upcoming I Am Number Four) and current Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) will be portraying the accused witch.

It’s a period film set in the 1700′s that sees Pettyfer’s character, Tom Ward as an exorcist in training. Lawrence will essay a suspected witch. The film is based on Joseph Delaney’s young adult novels.

Jeff Bridges can't do nothin' for ya, son, but can he do something for "The Seventh Son?"

That's what the folks at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are counting on, as they've reportedly cast the Oscar-winning actor in the lead role of "The Seventh Son," an adaptation of the Joseph Delaney novel "The Last Apprentice."

Just Jared reports that Bridges, currently best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as the fantastically drunk and word-slurring lawman Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit," has signed on to star as an exorcist in "The Seventh Son," based on Delaney's popular series of fantasy books. Offers are currently out to "I Am Number Four" actor Alex Pettyfer and "Winter's Bone" actress Jennifer Lawrence to star in the film as well.

"The Seventh Son," which is based on "The Spook's Apprentice," takes place in the 1700s and follows an exorcist-in-training named Tom Ward, the book's narrator and...