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New Star Trek Teaser Trailer Drops (VIDEO)

Prepare your panties: the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness has hit the web today.  The much-anticipated sequel to the 2009 reboot, Into Darkness brings back the old cast (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana) and introduces some new players to the fold (Eve...

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Daniel Day-Lewis At The Top Of His Game In Spielberg’s “Lincoln”

Most people don’t automatically associate presidential biopics with realism because of the iffy way Oliver Stone ran through the genre from “JFK” to “Nixon” to “W” over the last two decades. Even earlier this year, there was a piece of trash released titled “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” with a...

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See The Best Ensemble Cast Of 2012 In “Killing Them Softly”

Violence is stereotypically brutal and ugly, but some people in this world just know how to glorify and beautify it. Director Andrew Dominik is surely on that list of directors that know how to do so, and his newest release “Killing Them Softly” is the perfect exemplification of that.  “...

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“Hitchcock” Is Pure Oscar Bait

This happens every year, and I still can’t ever get used to it. No, I’m not talking about the childish way Americans act on Black Friday, I’m talking about the hideous Oscar-bait released during the last two months of the year clearly in hopes of acquiring superficial American awards. Sadly,...

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“Red Dawn” Shouldn’t Have Been Remade

  Thank the kind lord for another remake of a movie released less than 30 years ago, right?   Wrong.   Dan Bradley’s directorial debut, a remake of the 1984 film “Red Dawn,” is the epitome of reason why remakes automatically have a dissenting stigma attached to them before they’re...

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The Skinny On: "Skyfall"

"Everybody needs a hobby." "What's yours?" "Resurrection." With those lines, Skyfall solidified itself as one of the better Bond movies in the franchise's history.  Mixing old school character interaction and dialogue with new school action and themes, I walked out of the movie feeling...

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RZA’s “The Man With The Iron Fists” Was Clearly Cut Short By Warner Brothers

To any of you artists out there – how would you feel if you put hours and hours and days and days worth of work into a 7-foot canvas piece, only to see 4 ½ feet cut off of it? If you know that you’d feel extremely upset and demoralized, or if it’s actually happened to you in the past, you can...

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The Impressive List Of James Bond's Sexual Exploits

The new James Bond movie comes out this Friday. With the new film comes a new bevy of beauties willing to do anything for 007.  Before the new girls hit the big screen let's take a look back at Bond's impressive sexual numbers.  by TinyMaster. Learn about data visualization software.

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“The Sessions” Is A Heartfelt Tale Of Disability And Virginity

Many times in Hollywood, if the distributors think that a film has a chance of winning some American awards, they release it closer to awards season. Although “The Sessions” in many ways fits that superficial mold, this segment of a true story of the paralyzed poet Mark O’Brien is bound to touch...

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An Interview With Actor John Hawkes And Director Ben Lewin Of “The Sessions”

Now in theaters nationwide and sure to be an Oscar contender is Ben Lewin’s new film “The Sessions” – starring John Hawkes, who’s most famous for his roles in “American Gangster,” “The Perfect Storm,” and most recently “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Winter’s Bone.”  “The Sessions” is about a...

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