Latest and Breaking Movie News and Top Stories - July 3
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f you do what I do -- cherish film and have the chutzpah to tell other people what you think about them -- then you're almost certainly indebted to Roger Ebert. I've documented at length the effect that he had on both my personal and pro...
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Michael Bay is back to bludgeon us with the fourth instalment of the Transformers franchise. The film (released in British cinemas next Thursday) has a reported budget of more than $200m but still turns out to be a spectacularly incohere...
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Some great TV shows have made their way onto DVD this week including: House of Cards: Season 2 -...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice already feels crowded. What could have been a straight sequel to Man of Steel that focused solely on Superman (Henry Cavill) and pushed past his origin story now includes heroes Batman (Ben Affleck), W...
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June ended with a blockbuster that encapsulated everything wrong with most summer movies. Bloated, thin, self-indulgent, mean-spirited, and incomprehensible are a few ways to describe Michael Bay‘s Transformers: Age of Extinction. ...
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The Canadian star is a fervent patriot. We want to chat about new cartoon How to Train Your Dragon 2. He wants to talk about protectionism, socialised healthcare and the joys of paying tax Continue reading...
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Now that the USA is pretty much out of the running for any glory in the World Cup, the country will probably go back to not caring about soccer. But Sony Pictures is probably hoping that all the buzz around the beloved sport (at least ar...
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Feast your eyes on the latest posters for THE PURGE: ANARCHY! Universal have released the terrifyingly exciting posters online. Five of the posters feature close-ups of some gruesome masked characters, setting the tone for the highly ant...
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Michel Gondry’s “Mood Indigo” offers some of the director’s childlike surreal touches, like a piano that mixes cocktails.
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The best cinematic music fuses image and narrative together as no symphony ever can, argues Ivan Hewett
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After a big weekend of openers last weekend, the specialty market is slowing down a bit for Independence Day weekend, with indie box office-interested eyes likely more fixated on how "Begin Again" and "Snowpiercer" ma...
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Before there was "House of Cards" or "Orange is the New Black," Netflix released a two-season series in 2010 called "Example Show." What began as a series of test videos for new filmmaking formats becam...
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Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas are back.
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The documentary “Life Itself” is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Ebert, the most famous and affectionately regarded of American movie critics.
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Prepare to launch into space with an interstellar travel agency inviting you to the main locations for James Gunn's Marvel Studios movie. read more
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Bruce Willis returns as John Hartigan in the second scene from 'Sin City: A Dame to Kil For', watching as Jessica Alba's Nancy takes drastic measures for revenge by cutting all her hair off. [...]
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In a recent development, YRF & Kapil Sharma have decided to part ways mutually. Y Films' Bank Chor will now go on floor without him. Speaking on this development, Ashish Patil, Business & Creative Head, Youth Films, Talent Management & B...
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Briefly: Following news that Dermot Mulroney was joining the cast of the horror sequel Insidious: Chapter 3, the film's release has been pushed back a bit. The film was originally slated for a release in April of 2015, but instead Focus ...
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Film director Randall Miller and two others were indicted in the Georgia train crash that killed crew member Sarah Jones while a biopic about singer Gregg Allman was being filmed.
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“Hello, Oscar voters, Channing Tatum here. Yes, hello, it’s nice to speak to you, too. No, I will not be appearing in Step Up: All In. No, no cameo. I swear. I know I’ve done it before, but there was just no time for th...
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Senior citizens in movies tend to come in two flavors: kindly grandfather types who offer words of wisdom, or grumpy, mischievous old coots with a twinkle in their eye who haven't forgotten what it's like to be young. It looks like we'll...
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Sony has released two new trailers for Cannes Film Festival favourite, FOXCATCHER. The biopic, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo, follows the true-life tragic story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark and Da...
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An ancient Chinese legend is revisted in "The Orphan of Zhao" at La Jolla Playhouse, Four Clowns reimagines two Old Testament tales at Santa Monica's Annenberg Community Beach House, and the greatest love story Shakespeare ever told gets...
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We beat the drum pretty hard in favor of Tom Cruise’s intelligent, exciting sci-fi blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow. And we’re glad that it’s doing well overseas (after receiving a lukewarm reception in the States). One of ...
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The Boyzone singer Ronan Keating makes his big-screen debut in an unlikely role as an environmentalist in this cheerful but cheesy Australia-set musical comedy.
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Studio Canal UK has released the first Before I Go to Sleep trailer. Nicole Kidman stars as a woman who loses her memory every time she wakes up. As she learns more clues about her condition, she begins to uncover a dark mystery about ...
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Felix Herngren’s adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s best- selling novel is undermined by a fatal lack of charm.
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We’ve learned something today: even if you despise Ryan Gosling, you could end up in a relationship with him. For … Read More
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This gently whimsical time-travel yarn starts with Andrea Pesce (Andrea Calabrese), a Sicilian member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, falling through the sky and landing in a small village in contemporary Spain.
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Last summer, when The Maze Runner was filming outside New Orleans, I got to visit the set along with a few other reporters. If you’re not familiar with James Dashner’s YA novel, it centers on a group of teens who appear in an area known...
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As invigorating and funny now as it was on its original release half a century ago, A Hard Day’s Night offers both a perfect showcase for the Beatles and an intriguing snapshot of fast-changing, early-1960s British society. Richard Leste...
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The controversial man Kamaal R. Khan is at it again. This time Khan has found himself at loggerheads with TV funnyman Kapil Sharma. Apparently, the battle between the two started after KRK posted a tweet about Kapil saying, "When YRF ask...
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This is a French comedy with claws, a film about two ageing and narcissistic actors planning a stage version of Molière’s The Misanthrope. Lambert Wilson plays Gauthier Valence, a good-looking old thespian who plays a surgeon in a highly...
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The title reveals that Batman and Superman are going to fight in their upcoming film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. But with two heroes like that in the same movie, they film is gonna need some bad guys, too. We already know about ...
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Popular Bollywood celebrities from Alia Bhatt to Salman Khan have given their voice for some melodious tracks in their films and now joining the league is Tabu. The actress who will soon be seen in Vishal Bhardwaj's Indian adaptation of ...
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Anne Billson investigates the enduring appeal of on-screen hitmen
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Put the salt back in the cabinet and your vinyl of The Divine Miss Midler back in storage: despite … Read More
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Following a debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, IFC Films picked up the Guantanamo Bay drama Camp X-Ray starring The Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart. The film follows a female soldier stationed at the infamous detai...
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Monty Python’s legend, Eric Idle, bumped into fun […]
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There are a lot more apes then excepted in the latest look at 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' in a new TV spot. In theaters next Friday, July 11th. [...]
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Director Randall Miller among those charged with involuntary manslaughter in Georgia in wake of fatality on railway track during filming Continue reading...
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Zipporah Films has announced that legendary director Frederick Wiseman's Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry "National Gallery" will be released this November. The documentary film gives us a comprehensive look at the L...
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Jessica Alba is back as Nancy Callahan in this newly re […]
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Focus Features has moved 'Insidious Chapter 3' to May 2015, while also bumping back Tarsem Singh's sci-fi thriller 'Selfless' by a couple months.
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Michael Bay’s latest ‘Transformers’ m […]
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In Hollywood, where there is unfortunately an ever-narrowing range of acceptable body types, the promotion of Melissa McCarthy to leading woman status, albeit in comedies, can only be a good thing.
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Universal has released seven new The Purge: Anarchy posters online. If the movie had been released for the July 4th weekend, it would be a very sly and perhaps too abrasive commentary on our nation. The sequel takes place in a dystopia...
