Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:16 PM EST
Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle?
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:36 PM EST
Nicolas Cage figures he owes no apologies when critics gripe about all the Hollywood action flicks he's done.
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:15 AM EST
It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine.
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:26 PM EST
No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes.
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:28 PM EST
Roger Corman, memorably dubbed "the Orson Welles of the Z-Movie" and "the Pope of Pop Cinema," never expected the words "Academy Award recipient" would accompany his name.
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Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:01 PM EST
It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr. Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season.
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Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:46 PM EST
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine."
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Mon Nov 2, 2009 7:22 PM EST
Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens' imagination.
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Mon Nov 2, 2009 7:06 PM EST
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies?
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Mon Nov 2, 2009 6:58 AM EST
Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:53 PM EDT
Low-rental 1980s horror returns with filmmaker Ti West's "The House of the Devil," which scores points for restraint and attention to detail but defaults when the mortgage comes due with a bloody, pointless, uninspired climax.
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:40 AM EDT
The 50 comeback concerts Michael Jackson planned in London last summer sold out in a few hours.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:54 PM EDT
Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia."
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:47 PM EDT
Vampires have been an eternal force in Hollywood horror since silent-movie days, yet they have risen to new heights as the "Twilight" franchise, TV's "True Blood" and other incarnations put the bite on viewers.
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Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:48 PM EDT
"Paranormal Activity" has won a weekend battle of fright films over part six of the "Saw" franchise.
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:54 PM EDT
Spike Jonze recalls how Maurice Sendak urged him to make the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are" as dangerous as the book was when the children's classic came out in 1963.
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Wed Oct 7, 2009 8:51 PM EDT
Michael Sheen never felt he was playing second fiddle as British leader Tony Blair or TV interviewer David Frost.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:04 PM EDT
Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland has left his latest film in limbo, with several months of work before the political thriller is ready for theaters.
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Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:10 PM EDT
Roman Polanski has lived through a striking collection of bizarre, triumphant and tragic events, his calamity rivaling some of the darkest horrors he has depicted on screen.
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Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:17 AM EDT
Drew Barrymore chose a real balancing act for her directing debut. She does it on wheels, directing and acting alongside "Juno" co-star Ellen Page in "Whip It," a rowdy tale of roller-derby women.
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Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:31 AM EDT
Michael Moore says he made his latest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," as though it were his last. And it might be.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:35 PM EDT
Liam Neeson's colleagues on the sexual thriller "Chloe" reiterated their condolences over the death of his wife and gratitude for his quick return to finish the film.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:09 PM EDT
Matt Damon was thrilled when Steven Soderbergh called eight years ago asking him to play a tubby oddball with a self-destructive talent for spinning colossal lies.
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:24 AM EDT
Isabella Rossellini has established herself as the world's most prominent porn artist specializing in the lusty behavior of bugs, barnacles, shrimp and starfish.
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Wed Sep 9, 2009 6:13 AM EDT
The cinema smorgasbord of the Toronto International Film Festival has something for all tastes, a place where zombies, demons and vampires share screen time with art films, Hollywood awards contenders and studio crowd-pleasers.
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