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A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye
Andy Hoglund writes about "Logan," the latest and purportedly last time Hugh Jackman will play famed X-Man Wolverine.
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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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The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”
It’s the year of “Oscar’s metamorphosis,” Jenelle Riley beamed in the header of a recent Variety survey of the lead performances anchoring the season’s graduating class of prestige pictures. Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a r...
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"The Affair Advances Hollywood’s Hea...
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7 Movies With the Exact Same Villain
Sometime around 2003, movies hit critical mass for a particular kind of adversary. Beyond a few simple shared traits, and even a reasonable number of examples, a mold began to emerge of extreme specificity of onscreen villainy. Far from revealing some screen...
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Weekend Box Office: Yes, Women Can Open Films
Proving yet again that the traditional Hollywood wisdom stating women don't go to the movies is BS, Disney's Angelina Jolie-starring take on the classic villain Maleficent racked up $70 million domestically and $100 million overseas for the weekend. That's the...
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Weekend Box Office: “X-Men” Opens Big, “Blended” Not So Much
Summer continues on strongly as Memorial Day, one of the bigger movie weekends of the year, marks the start of kids getting out of school and the real summer bucks rolling in. The latest installment in the X-Men franchise, Days of Future Past, claimed $90.7 mi...
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“X-Men: Days of Future Past”: All The Mutants and Pep Talks You Could Ask For
After 61 live-action feature-length DC Comics movies and Marvel Comics pictures, there’s bound to be a bushel of subpar apples in the multi-billion dollar barrel. The 62nd picture hails the return of Bryan Singer to the franchise he helped put on the box offic...
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A New Era of Hollywood Scandals?
When the allegations that director Bryan Singer drugged and raped a 17-year-old boy in 1999 recently came to light, moviegoers who were looking forward to his upcoming film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, were confronted with a series of difficult questions: Shou...
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Trailer Insists Patience Isn’t Its Strongest Suit
The first trailer for Bryan Singer's First Class/originals mashup X-Men: Days of Future Past has debuted online, and it aims not for spectacle but is, according to Singer, "primarily a character piece" due to unfinished visual effects. Luckily, this seems to w...
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