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May
02 2013
When a grimacing mutant is barreling down upon you — his pectorals bulging through his tattered wife-beater, his hair spiked up in a manner both slick and feral, and an arsenal of metallic claws springing from his pulsating knuckles — it's...
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May
02 2013
Thanks to the graces of Earth's yellow sun and substantial deficit of Kryptonite, Clark Kent has a pretty handy arsenal of abilities. He can withstand bullets, fire, windstorms, and sub-zero temperatures... but any Man, no matter how Super, will...
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May
02 2013
After building momentum with Natalie Portman and director David O. Russell in 2009, the adaptation of writer Seth Grahame-Smith's popular mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies slowly sunk back down into the grave. Over the past few years...
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May
02 2013
Little known fact: Guy Pearce was approached to play that lead role in the 2003 comic book adaptation Daredevil (the part that eventually went to Ben Affleck). According to Pearce, "playing a comic strip superhero was, some years ago for me...
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May
02 2013
No matter how talented a performer might be, he or she is bound to wind up with a consistent "type." For De Niro, it's gangsters. For Woody Allen, it's nebbishes. For Malin Akerman, it's occupants of past-era rock clubs. Last year, the comic...
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May
02 2013
Even at his subtlest, Lars von Trier can't avoid his provocative instincts. Today's evidence: the first poster for his near-pornographic double feature Nymphomaniac. What do you see in the below image? Clearly von Trier's Melancholia follow-up...
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May
01 2013
Usually it's finding the good guy to save the day that proves difficult, but for the Gavin O'Connor-directed western, Jane Got a Gun, finding a bad guy to go up against has been the most challenging part. And with the exit of its latest candidate...
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May
01 2013
  It might seem like Daniel Radcliffe, forever known as The Boy Who Lived, has just been diving through piles of Harry Potter money since the franchise ended. Well, he's not really Scrooge McDuck after all. We've seen him in The Woman in Black...
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May
01 2013
Sure, he was pompous, a little edgy, never one to stray from an argument, but Frasier Crane was moreover a nice guy. He was a compassionate therapist, a devoted brother and son, and a faithful patron to his regular tavern. Kelsey...
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May
01 2013
It's been just under a year since we saw the greatest assembly of superheroic individuals hit theaters in the form of The avengers. But now the achievement looks to be topped by none other than George Clooney and his upcoming film The Monuments...
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May
01 2013
Movie stars make millions of dollars a film, and still they're out there on Kickstarter shaking a bunch of loose change in an empty Wendy's cup like a panhandler on the subway so that they can make a movie. That's what just happened with both the...
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May
01 2013
  This article contains minor spoilers for Iron Man 3. Gwyneth Paltrow has made it easy for the world to hate her. She was born into privilege, is pretty much perfect, and leads the most glamorous of lives that 99 percent of the world can only...
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May
01 2013
For all of you that worried that the "Bom bom bom bom ba dum bom ba dum" that accompanies Darth Vader every time he ever appeared in one of the Star Wars movies wouldn't be in the new episodes currently being written and directed by JJ Abrams...
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