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| Brad Pitt Joins Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards
Brad Pitt has sealed the deal on a role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, agreeing to star as "a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take on the Nazis." Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, and Natassja Kinski are in negotiations to join the cast.
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Is Shia LaBeouf The Last Man?
Those of you who had "Shia LaBeouf walking around a post-plague landscape with a monkey" on the list of things you wanted to see before you died may soon have your dreams come true.
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Who's Up for Some More "TMNT"?
It didn't do all that much box office business, however I know a lot of "Turtle" fans who really liked the new-fangled "TMNT" movie. So what's up with the sequel?
According to one source, a "TMNT" follow-up is looking more and more likely: "As of two weeks ago Imagi...
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Universal Studies Dragonology
The film rights to Dugald A. Steer's wildly popular Dragonology books have been purchased by Universal, where Leonard Hartman will write and produce a movie about "a group of dragonologists who go on a globetrotting quest to keep a corrupt man from taking control of the world's dragons and using...
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SAG Meeting Scheduled for Saturday
SAG leaders will sit down with their national board on Saturday, meeting for the first time since the guild's contract with the AMPTP expired, and at least one member is predicting "fireworks."
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Nicolas Cage to Play Bad Lieutenant
Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog are teaming up for a re-make of Abel Ferrera's violent 1992 classic Bad Lieutenant, it was announced in Cannes today.
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Malin Akerman Says Watchmen Light On Green Screen
Watchmen has begun filming however Malin Akerman is still on the press rounds for The Heartbreak Kid. She provided a preview of her role as The Silk Spectre before she joins the rest of the cast on the set.
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Brendan Fraser Praises New Mummy Wife
The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were pretty linked companion pieces. The entire cast was the same and it took place in the same deserts with the same monsters. Now, seven years later, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is in China with Maria Bello playing Rick O'Connell's wife...
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Top Movies
Get the lowdown on what critics think of the top movies in release. |
| 77% Live Free or Die Hard
Live Free or Die Hard may be preposterous, however it's an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick with thrilling stunts and a commanding performance by Bruce Willis.
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53% Mamma Mia!
This jukebox musical is full of fluffy fun but rough singing voices and a campy tone might not make you feel like "You Can Dance" the whole 90 minutes.
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36% Transporter 3
This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.
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37% 27 Dresses
The filmmakers perfectly follow the well-worn romantic comedy formula, rendering 27 Dresses clichéd and mostly forgettable.
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26% Step Up 2 the Streets
There's a kinetic appeal to the handsome cast and their smooth moves, however everything else about Step Up 2 the Streets is been there, danced that.
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51% Step Brothers
The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
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58% Bug
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband.
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42% The Strangers
The Strangers provides a few scares, however offers little else to distinguish itself from other slasher films.
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Top DVDs
Find out what critics think of the hottest DVDs at the video store. |
| 18% The Invasion
The Invasion is slickly made, however it lacks psychological insight and thrills.
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42% The Golden Compass
Without the bite or the controversy of the source material, The Golden Compass is reduced to impressive visuals overcompensating for lax storytelling.
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79% American Gangster
American Gangster is a gritty and entertaining throwback to classic gangster films, with its lead peronce upon a times firing on all cylinders.
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64% King of California
A quirky and often touching comedy about a mature teenager and her manic depressive father, King of California is a charming tale of familial relations and treasure hunting.
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18% Primeval
Primeval is a low-quality horror film, which due to the inane political messages does not even qualify as campy fun.
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9% 10,000 B.C.
With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.
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96% WALL-E
Charming, audacious, and timely, Wall-E's lighthearted magic and stellar visuals testify once again to Pixar's ingenuity.
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54% We Own The Night
Bland characters, clichéd dialogue and rickety plotting ensure We Own The Night never lives up to its potential.
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49% We Are Marshall
Matthew McConaughey almost runs We Are Marshall to the end zone, however can't stop it from taking the easy, feel-good route in memorializing this historic event in American sports.
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