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A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Clint Eastwood hated Moneyball. At least, that's the biggest thing we can take away from the trailer for Clint Eastwood's latest movie, Trouble with the Curve.
The Emerson boys’ plight and their tight kinship form the lasting appeal of Joel Schumacher’s gem, The Lost Boys, which this week marks 25 years since its American release.
Another death to report today: Film critic Judith Crist has died at the age of 90.
In case you were worried you would never get to see the documentary Andrew Breitbart made about Occupy Wall Street, you can rest easy: Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner are on the case.
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We could talk about all the movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, but in the interest of time, let's just focus on our top ten most-interesting picks.
Y.A. author Nina LaCour is making a small-budget movie out of her novel, and the Y.A. community is helping her pay for it.
American comedies have been dominated by bromances for nearly a decade — including this weekend’s human-stuffed animal friendship fantasy, Ted — but perhaps the most sensitive comedic portrayal of heterosexual male romance is a picture that is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, the oft-forgotten Withnail and I.
Unlike most Internet destinations, official movie websites are useful for a brief moment in time—making them a perfect capsule of a specific moment in Internet history.
Her phrases are romantic, hilarious, discussable, and debatable—they are the ones that pop up again and again. Where did that come from? Usually, the answer is Nora Ephron. We take a look at some of our favorites.
Henry Hill, whose outrageous real-life tales of life in the mob became the inspiration for the movie Goodfellas, died yesterday at the age 69.
Happy Ferris Bueller Day Off Day, Ferris! That is, of course, if you even exist.
Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, we are officially in summer, movie-wise at least. We've already had some big rumblers like The Avengers and Battleship, but really the season is just getting started. Richard Lawson takes a look at what's to come.
Michael Haneke was awarded the Cannes film festival's top prize, its Palme d'Or, on Sunday for his movie, Amour.
What's your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration.
Tomorrow marks the debut of Battleship, a new robot alien action picture that, like Transformers before it, is based on a toy. It's a pretty cynical movie endeavor, but sadly it's nowhere near the first of its kind. Cinema history is positively littered with cheap tie-in movies that were made solely as especially greedy corporate cash-grabs. Here are the most shameless.
This year's Cannes Film Festival has officially begun, with all of filmdom's glittery best descending on the south of France to smoke cigarettes, talk about George Clooney, and ogle or be ogled. But what about the actual movies? Let's take a look at seven films that sound the most interesting.
What to Expect When You're Expecting, a movie with an ensemble cast of celebrities each depicting different versions of mommy-and-daddyhood, comes out in theaters Friday. So, this is a date movie, right?
The New York Times reports today that AMC Theatres, America's second-biggest movie theater chain, may soon be purchased by a Chinese company, the Wanda Group, which, as one of the biggest theater operators in China, is no stranger to the Chinese government's longstanding practice of censoring American movies. So what happens if they come to own such a large part of the American movie market?
The Avengers has managed to take in more than $640 million worldwide in the last 12 days and set a new opening weekend record. What is it about superheroes that we can't get enough of?
Love is hard. Romantic movies make it harder.
There's a rumor floating around the Web (heh) that Sony is none too pleased with its latest superhero picture, The Amazing Spider-Man, an ostensible reboot of a franchise that debuted only ten years ago.
Psssst. Fox's new movie, Neighborhood Watch is actually about aliens--and the only reason we know that is because the studio is making sure that audiences know the movie has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin case.
We were so much older then. We're younger than that now.
In a surprise appearance on Conan O'Brien's show last night, Will Ferrell — in character as Ron Burgundy — announced that San Diego's No. 1 anchorman will be returning for a sequel.
Hey, America. You have something in common with Mitt Romney. Like you, he had a good time watching The Hunger Games movie this weekend.
Let us not forget, in the whiplash-inspiring build-up to the Hunger Games movie cumulating in exhausting midnight showings (and screenings for normal people at normal times), that this all was sprung from a far more humble entity.
The Motion Picture Association of America has seen a big increase in the number of films asking for an appeal of their R or NC-17 ratings, but the group has no inclination to ever change its mind.
Which of these are we more excited about, and why? If we could only see one (which is fortunately not the case), which would it be? We've broken down some key factors in this investigation.
Once upon a time, we innocently went about our lives, casually looking forward to a movie coming to the multiplex near us. Things are different now.
A murder at an out-of-control house party is being blamed on the teen freakout movie Project X, which would suggest that someone might have actually gone to see Project X.
Disney's new action-adventure sci-fi epic John Carter opened this weekend to a staggeringly low $30 million, earning it certified flop status. So what happened? What did they do wrong? Well, a few things.
Today we review Jennifer Westfeldt's new film Friends With Kids.
The days are getting longer and March has come in like a lion, which means it is springtime! So let's take a look at what's coming out from now until June, because while the weather might be turning nice, it's still more fun to sit inside in the dark.
The people who made The Lorax are probably in need of a hug right now. But if there's anything to be gained from a hate-filled review, it's the pleasure of reading it.
Don't get too, too sad about Netflix losing Starz Play after tomorrow.
Is the era of "Freedom fries" finally over? Or is the backlash just beginning?
Are you thinking of jumping into the fray of live-tweeting an event, but not sure what to do, how it all works, or where to begin? Take note: An epic evening of live-tweeting is just days away.
An impressive face-off between two low-budget underdogs resulted in a record-breaking box office for a Super Bowl weekend.
We've broken down the recycled plot of every Super Bowl movie ad into its precise mathematical formula.
As part of their Completist series, in which a writer consumes and considers an entire artist's (usually a director's) oeuvre, the Internet's perpetual hand-raising prodder Slate had Bill Wyman watch all of Steven Spielberg's films and report his findings. They were, unsurprisingly, pretty negative.
Though Sundance hikes on in its snow boots and intellectual-seeming fashion glasses for four more days, the early rush of buzzy films and the deals that follow is wrapping up.
As part of IMDb Pro's tenth anniversary celebration, they've announced the ten most searched actors, movies, and television shows on the site. The results are... sadly unsurprising?
Beginning today, we'll spill out the weekend movie grosses like a sacred bag of chicken bones and soothsay our way towards some kind of trenchant industry analysis.
Higher prices will save the industry, Demi Moore is a feminist icon, and Salma Hayek is a knight.
A dead body was found on the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham estate recently, and it has just been declared a murder. This is like something out of the movies! In fact, it should be a movie. But what kind exactly? Here are five ideas.
Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol raked in another $30 million over the weekend, which is certainly good news for lots of people in Hollywood, but the bigger box office picture is a dire one.
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