Dwayne Johnson, aka as The Rock, hits the beach in BAYWATCH, a big screen version of the sun-soaked, slo-mo 90s TV show. Johnson rose to fame through professional wrestling, breaking into movies thanks to his unbelievable physique. It didn't take The Rock long to prove...
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Author Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, "You can't go home again." But Wolfe never ran a movie studio, where returning to popular film franchises--sometimes even decades later--can mean big box office. In ALIEN: COVENANT, director Ridley Scott revisits the sci-fi world that sent his career into...
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Screen legend Goldie Hawn ends a fifteen-year absence from movies with SNATCHED, where she and Amy Schumer play a mother and daughter who go on a vacation getaway but find themselves over their heads in trouble. Hawn won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her...
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Unequaled in its scope and ambition, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has, in a little over a decade, transformed secondary and tertiary characters from the pages of Marvel Comics into major movie stars. Case in point, the Guardians of the Galaxy, who return in VOLUME 2...
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In THE CIRCLE, Emma Watson lands a job at a powerful tech company (led by Tom Hanks), which has a nefarious plan to take the concept of social media to another level. Movies have been predicting what our technology will look like for decades, sometimes...
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April 20, 1977 saw the release of Annie Hall, a "nervous romance" that cut deep on the subject of love while also being hysterically funny. It won four Oscars, including Best Picture (beating out a little movie called STAR WARS), and it's the film that...
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Vin Diesel and crew are back in THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS, the eighth(!) installment of the turbo-charged Fast and the Furious franchise. Movies and the automobile have been part of the American landscape for roughly the same amount of time, but it wasn't until...
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In GHOST IN THE SHELL, Scarlett Johannson plays a human/android hybrid that's part of a futuristic police force trying to bring down a computer hacker. ScarJo isn't the first actress to suit up and kick butt in a cinematic future world, here are some other...
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Emma Watson and Dan Stevens star in Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, a big budget, live-action re-do of the classic story. Hollywood has turned to fairy tales since the silent era for ideas, here are ten movies based on tales as old as time. BEAUTY...
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A group of explorers and soldiers trek to a remote island, where they get more--a lot more--than they bargained for: namely, a giant ape known as King Kong! This latest iteration of Kong is the largest one moviegoers have ever seen--how would he fare against...
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