Chris Pine, born August 26, 1980, debuted on movie screens in 2004's THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2. Blessed with movie idol looks and effortless charm, in 2009 he stepped into the iconic role of Captain James T. Kirk in STAR TREK and made it his own....
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Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE arrived on movie screens fifty years ago this month. Its combination of retro-cool and in-your-face violence was controversial, groundbreaking, and massively popular with the growing counterculture, who adopted Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's bank robbing killers as anti-heroes. In the...
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In THE GLASS CASTLE, Oscar-winner Brie Larson plays a woman coming to terms with her unconventional childhood, spent wandering the country with her dysfunctional, nomadic, unapologetically self-mythologizing parents. Here are ten cinematic tales of hard times, endured by people who had hardship thrust upon them,...
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DETROIT, the newest film from Kathryn Bigelow, tells the true story of the civil unrest and rioting that rocked the city during the summer of 1967. Since the early 1980s, Bigelow has often helmed character-driven yet action-heavy movies and is (so far) the only woman...
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Charlize Theron stars as a tough-as-nails super-spy in ATOMIC BLONDE, a neon-colored adaptation of the graphic novel THE COLDEST CITY. Between ATOMIC BLONDE and WONDER WOMAN, 2017 has probably been the best year ever for cinematic comic book adaptations starring women, but there have been...
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Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero ushered in the modern age of horror with his low-budget but groundbreaking 1968 film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. In between return visits to the land of the dead (including the equally influential DAWN OF THE DEAD), he carved out...
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Christopher Nolan's DUNKIRK is an epic, widescreen telling of one of the most historic battles of World War II between the Allies and Nazi Germany. Hollywood didn't even wait for America to enter the war before movies about the conflict started rolling off the assembly...
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The battle of Apes vs. Humans concludes in WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, the third installment of the 21st Century revamp of the beloved film franchise. A hit with audiences and critics alike, the Apes series is marked by gripping action as well as...
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The amazing, spectacular Spider-Man is back! In SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, young Peter Parker has to navigate the drama of high school while also learning how to use his new high-tech superhero uniform, courtesy Tony Stark. It only took a few years after Spidey's comic book debut...
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Edgar Wright's new film BABY DRIVER stars Ansel Elgort as a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. In the movies, getaway drivers are so plentiful they nearly outnumber doctors, lawyers, and private detectives. Put the pedal to the...
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