Movie mega-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in PASSENGERS, playing two interstellar deep space travelers who accidentally(?) wake up decades before arriving at their destination. Nowadays, big time movie stars appear in sci-fi films all the time, but it wasn't always this way: for...
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A new chapter in the Star Wars saga is written with ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, which travels back to the events that took place just before that now-iconic crawl made its way up the screen in the very first STAR WARS. Here are...
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Quite possibly the last man standing from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Kirk Douglas, who turns 100 on December 9, is a screen icon with a career almost unmatched in its breadth, depth, and quality. Not content to just being a handsome face, Douglas turned...
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One of the original American art forms, the musical, makes a splashy return to the big screen in LA LA LAND, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as two star-crossed lovers who fall in love on the lonely streets of Los Angeles. Director Damien Chazelle's...
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In the WWII thriller ALLIED, an intelligence officer in North Africa (Brad Pitt) encounters a female French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Movie characters being in enemy territory is a perfect set up for a thriller, and having it...
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There's all sorts of of dark magic afoot in the Big Apple in FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, a prequel to the worldwide phenomenon known as the Harry Potter franchise. Spooky castles and foreboding forests are classic settings for those who practice the...
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In Ang Lee's new film BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK, an Iraq War vet comes home but finds America's perception of the war very different from the reality he faced. Hollywood has been telling similar stories dating back to World War I, reminding the rest...
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Is there a doctor in the house? The Master of the Mystic Arts, Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe in DOCTOR STRANGE, bringing more than a touch of magic to the world of Captain America, the Hulk, and Spider-Man. Hollywood has been...
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Halloween is for getting scared, of course, but it's also for coming home with bags full of candy--that sweet, sweet reward for wandering around all night in a heavy, uncomfortable costume. Here are eight films about those wonderful trifles that probably gave some of the...
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Tyler Perry's head-slapping, advice-giving creation Madea returns in BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN, this time trying to deal with killers, poltergeists, ghouls, and zombies. Big-screen laughs and scares have gone together for decades, here are some of the better cinematic efforts to make audiences scream, one...
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