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Article: Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete Kills” gets a poster

Berlin is good for more than just history lessons and bondage porn. Every March, it’s also where Hollywood goes to sell its films to worldwide buyers as part of the European Film Market. As such, it’s a great way to get a sneak peek at some upcoming projects before they officially start their American publicity…

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Article: Shelf Life: “White Men Can’t Jump”

Looking at even the trailer for Oren Moverman’s “Rampart,” it’s hard to believe there was a time when Woody Harrelson was not looked at as primarily a dramatic actor. Certainly, in the last ten or fifteen years he has cultivated an undeniable pedigree as an intense, thoughtful, and entertaining performer to watch. But coming off…

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Article: Will Ferrell’s five funniest random media appearances

Will Ferrell is, of course, a world class screen actor, but if you only pay attention to his movies, you’re missing some of his best work. When he’s not busy starring in surprisingly moving indie dramedies or all-Spanish soap operas, he’s usually off somewhere, doing something weird, with cameras in tow. In light of last…

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Article: Lost Memories: Our 10 favorite amnesia movies

Movies have dealt with the issues of memory and, specifically, amnesia since as far back as the 1932 Greta Garbo-starring As You Desire Me (and possibly even farther). Lost memories have become a go-to movie trope over the past few decades, with varying levels of success, and with the latest film to tackle the issue…

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Article: “Avengers” boycotters assemble online

For most comic book fans, this summer’s “The Avengers” movie is a culmination of a lifelong dream. After decades of page-bound adventures, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and The Hulk are teaming up for maybe the biggest comic book movie of all time. One film with all those characters? For the dyed-in-the-tights comic nerd, it…

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Article: Call-In Commentary: Watch the “Rampart” trailer with writer-director Oren Moverman

If there’s one thing “Rampart” tells us, it’s do not crash into Woody Harrelson’s cop car. If that happens, he will beat you. That’s precisely what happens in Oren Moverman’s gripping police drama, where a videotaped incident turns into downwardly cascading chain of events for the rogue officer. It’s being hailed as a breakthrough performance…

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Article: The rise of the film critic filmmaker

The line between film critic and film maker has always been a blurry one. “Battleship Potemkin” director Sergei Eisenstein wrote essays and books about the language of motion pictures that continue to be studied by film students to this day. Many of the biggest figures of the French New Wave, from Jean-Luc Godard to Francois…

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Article: Five ways “The Amazing Spider-Man” will differ from the previous movie franchise

Yesterday’s preview of “The Amazing Spider-Man” yielded lots of new details about Peter Parker’s upcoming return to the big screen, but one of the most significant takeaways from the sneak peek event was confirmation of some of the ways this version of the webslinger will differ from his big-screen predecessor. British actor Andrew Garfield puts…

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Article: The top five talent agent scenes in movies

Where would a man be without his agent? He’d be lost in the jungle (sometimes literally), wondering how all this anarchy and madness came into being. Here are some of our favorite scenes that depict the often complex but almost always beautiful relationship between an agent and his client. Martin Short in “The Big Picture”…

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Article: “The Amazing Spider-Man” sneak peek reveals more details about webslinger’s return to the big screen

Your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler returns to theaters this year, and a worldwide event held earlier today that revealed new footage from “The Amazing Spider-Man” served as a great reminder that Peter Parker will be giving The Avengers and Batman some competition at the box office. Held simultaneously in 15 cities across the world, the “Amazing…

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Article: The five Hammer Films-produced horror movies everyone should see

This past weekend’s premiere of “The Woman In Black” marks the return of famous British studio Hammer Films to the world of horror movies — a genre the studio helped define during the 1950s, and then throughout the ’60s and beyond. While “Harry Potter” franchise star Daniel Radcliffe stars in the terrifying new film by…

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Article: “The Avengers” Super Bowl commercial scores major reveals

Whether or not your football team took home the glory last night, “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” delivered a win for everyone who had been hoping the Super Bowl commercial would give us some new glimpses of the action, aliens and Avengers themselves. With the teasing finally over, the ad immediately sets the foreboding tone for the…

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