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The Male Gaze and Criticism
It's easy to forget sometimes that film/television critics are a homogeneous group (white men predominantly). A group of males that spend a majority of their time discussing their favorite shows and movies, and sometimes debating when consensus isn't had. Thes...
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New ‘Godzilla’ Trailer Will Send Us Back to the Stone Age
"You are not fooling anybody when you say that what happened was a natural disaster. It was not an earthquake, it was not a typhoon, because what's really happening is your hiding something out there!"
I'm sold. Bryan Cranston's voice-over and the beast's s...
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Don’t Cross the Streams: R.I.P. Harold Ramis
Well, here's something to bum you out. Harold Ramis, the great comic director of Caddyshack, Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Vacation has passed away at the age of 69. His death comes following complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lego” Three-Peats, Bests Volcanoes And Costners
It was a typical February weekend, with just about everything performing not great and a couple films taking huge hits. The winner for the third weekend in a row was The Lego Movie, which took $31.4 million to bring it to $183 million total. It was the largest...
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Jennifer Aniston to Deal with Some Middle-Aged Plastics in ‘Mean Moms’
Yes, the brilliance of 2004's Mean Girls has to do a lot with Tina Fey's masterful writing and the performances of the film's talented cast -- including Lindsay Lohan, Amy Poehler, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan and Amanda Seyfried. But Fey's script was also bas...
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It’s Clobberin Time! Meet the Cast of the new ‘Fantastic Four’
Fox has found the stars needed to reboot the Fantastic Four series. According to THR, Fox is in final negotiations with Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell to bring the heroes to the big screen once again. Josh Trank, who previously direc...
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Matthew McConaughey Puts ‘Interstellar’ Expectations Sky-high
When Variety sat down with Matthew McConaughey to chat briefly about the state of his career renaissance ranging from Mud to a brief-but-spectacular turn in The Wolf of Wall Street and his heart-felt performance as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club. Not to be...
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Peter Bart Wonders if Critics Can Be Happy
Eager to piece together any reason for the lack of a clear frontrunner for this year's Oscar race, Variety's Peter Bart has put out a thesis: it's because movie critics like bummer movies that Academy voters don't.
"I would argue that filmgoers by and large...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lego” Tops Remakes, There Was Much Rejoicing
It was a double holiday weekend, with President's Day on Monday and Valentine's Day on Friday, and a weekend where three remakes of 80's movies were vying for the top spot in the market. The box office certainly reflected the former, with family films and roma...
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New Images Welcome You to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Wes Anderson's latest creation, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is another intricate and ornate cross-section into a world that normal people don't have the privilege of visiting. This Europe of the past, a sprawling and magnificent hotel set in the 1900s before the...
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