Summer is a season of blockbusters films, and Hollywood’s seen things that way at least since Jaws, a generation ago. This summer, some big-screen adventures await: The Avengers (today, 5.4), Men in Black III (5.25), The Amazing Spider-Man (7.3), and The Dark Knight Rises (7.20). Of these big-budget films, which looks good to you (multiple…
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Friday Poll: Which film will win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
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Film, Politics
Television and Film: Inspiring, Instructive, and Misleading
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Americans have all the drama, comedy, horror, and adventure programs and films anyone might want (and more each day, as desire and creativity are both dynamic). There are so many ways in which so much art is enjoyable and useful. That’s true of what appears on the screen, and true of what one thinks of…
Film, Libertarians
More about Atlas Shrugged, Part I
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Here’s a broad description of the upcoming film Atlas Shrugged, hitting theaters in April: “The whole theme of the movie is, really, human evil,” says Brian O’Toole, the screenwriter behind Atlas Shrugged Part I, the feature adaptation of Ayn Rand’s influential novel. “And human evil springs from good intentions.” O’Toole and producer Harmon Kaslow tell…
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Theater Chains Aim to Transform Going Out to the Movies – WSJ.com
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Video clip: “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” – WSJ.com
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Cowboys & Aliens
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Universal pictures offers the odd tale of Cowboys & Aliens for 2011: The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is…
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Unstoppable — Film Reviews by Joe Morgenstern – WSJ.com
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Sounds promising…Tony Scott directed Denzel Washington in the Taking of Pelham 123, and that was a fine, innovative remake, I thought. Film critic Morgenstern writes: Who knew that Unstoppable would be sensational? Talk about well-kept— and welcome—surprises. Tony Scott’s latest thriller turns out to be pure cinema in the classic sense of the term. It’s…
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Look Who’s Back — Po the Kung Fu Panda
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Film, Holiday
‘Brainssss’ Teasers: 4 Decades of Zombie Trailers — Wired.com
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In anticipation of The Walking Dead’s Sunday premiere on AMC, Wired.com takes a look at the most influential zombie films of the last 40-plus years. From George A. Romero’s groundbreaking Living Dead series [to] modern twists like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, ghouls have been chowing down on guts and brains — and taking…
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Birth of a Nation
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From last Friday’s Comments Forum, here’s one of a reader’s favorite films: The controversial early film, Birth of a Nation — a prominent early film, but with a viewpoint that’s now thankfully rejected. The film came out about 5 years before the Klan reached its height in America, and reflects the Klan’s lying view of…