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Today’s Superhero Films Are The New Monster Movies
Superheroes today are more akin to horror-movie monsters than the inspiring comic-book icons of yesteryear.
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What Franchise Filmmaking Can Learn From “Lady Snowblood”
Pour yourself a stiff drink and take a gander at the slate of scheduled releases for 2016. If we were to cut out the nonsense subtitles and replace them with their rightful numerical ordering, we’d see that the dog days of summer alone will bring us Now You Se...
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“In the Heart of the Sea” Doesn’t Know Dick
In the Heart of the Sea doesn’t get to the heart of much. In fact, Ron Howard’s seafaring adventure is as confused a picture as I’ve seen in quite some time. Adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 best-seller about the sinking of the whaleship Essex, the film...
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Opening Acts 2/11/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
The film industry’s sorry state: There were fewer female prot...
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Weekend Box Office: Obligatory “‘Godzilla’ Roars” Headline
After last summer's decidedly mixed domestic performance for Guillermo del Toro's kaiju big battle movie Pacific Rim, it was understandable that box office prognosticators were a little skeptical that Gareth Edwards' American Godzilla reboot would connect. But...
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Weekend Box Office: “Neighbors” Beats Spidey
Just about every weekend during the summer season brings a new number one to the box office charts, which is expected given that studios are putting out big movies every weekend, and this week was no different. As a breather in=n between the big-budget crazine...
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Weekend Box Office: Spidey Starts Summer
The first weekend of May means the kickoff of the summer movie season, and usually a superhero movie kicks things off (last year brought Iron Man 3 and the year before was The Avengers). This year brought us the fifth cinematic outing for Spider-Man and the se...
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“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Swings And Misses
On the basis of its first two films, Marc Webb’s reboot franchise of Spider-Man manages not only to wallow in superhero cliché but in that of the teen indie. Peter Parker’s self-doubt and petulance have been crucial traits of the character since his inception ...
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First Trailer for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Swings Into View
The long wait for the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man saga has finally ended.
Director Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield return for the sequel, cleverly titled The Amazing Spider-Man 2, to the hit series and this one is filled to the brim with baddies fo...
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Sony Cuts Summer Movie Schedule In Half
Despite releasing nine films this past summer, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Pictures Group (which includes Columbia, Tristar, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, and others, but whose primary releasing arm is Columbia Pictures) announced that it is only...
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