Countless film bloggers post their lists of best films of the year “so far” at the end of June, because it’s “halftime.” While the occasion may be convenient, it’s also arbitrary — the year being halfway over coincides with nothing relevant to the film industry. Thus, I’ve decided to buck the trend and do three […]
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There is a potentially huge movie called The Watch releasing this summer that has been floating under the radar. Why? Because the studio, 20th Century Fox, was reticent to promote it under its previous title, Neighborhood Watch, with the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case still making headlines. Well, now the movie has its new title and a redband trailer,
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Adam Yauch, better known as Beastie Boys rapper MCA, has passed away at 47. That Yauch had recently been fighting cancer was well known. In 2009, he went public with this battle, against a cancerous parotid gland. In addition to making musical hits for decades with the Beastie Boys, Yauch created the film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories
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Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column. After a rough weekend of prognosticating last go-around–all four new films underperformed my expectations, one of them (The Five-Year Engagement) by a wide margin–it’s good that my job is easier this weekend. There is only one opener, Marvel’s The Avengers, and the question is
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The official trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has arrived. The film is directed by (500) Days of Summer helmer Mark Webb, and stars Andrew Garfield as the titular wall crawler. It co-stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Dennis Leary, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The film marks a reboot for the Marvel franchise, the last incarnation
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It all started with a tweet: Samuel L. Jackson decided that even though The Avengers had already amassed $200 million internationally and was one day away from pleasing millions of fans in the United States (many of them already lined up for midnight shows), he needed to declare war on longtime New York Times film critic
Just because Lost is over doesn’t mean writer/producer Damon Lindelof is done keeping his cards close to his vest. It was announced today that Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Ratatouille) will be directing Lindelof’s script 1952, of which almost nothing is known. In reporting the news, Deadline‘s Mike Fleming conceded that the project is “secrecy-shrouded,”
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We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official: Francis Lawrence is definitely set to catch fire. Lawrence, director of I Am Legend and Water for Elephants, is officially set to helm Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games. Though news broke that Lawrence had been offered the job recently, now the ink
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A new trailer for The Expendables 2 has exploded onto the web today, promising star-studded, bloody delight for action movie fans. The film stars and is written by Sylvester Stallone, who returns as the head of a mercenary group specializing in impossible jobs with high body counts. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis will
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New selections available for home viewing this week: Haywire is Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded experiment in genre filmmaking, a modest action film that struggles with its own low aim. It’s a curious exercise seeing a prolific auteur approach a task that he likely thinks is beneath him, resulting in a work that’s appealing and exciting at
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