(Major spoilers throughout) I strolled into The Avengers hungry — ravenous — for a summer blockbuster. I wanted car chases, fireballs and toppling skyscrapers. I also expected a few meaningful characters and lines of …
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Beyond Marvel-ous: The Avengers Smashes Records with $200.3 Million
The all-star superhero movie leaves “Harry Potter” as roadkill, scoring the top opening weekend in North American movie history
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Check In, You Won’t Want to Leave
The combined forces of British acting talent is practically superhuman; like The Avengers for the senior set
The Avengers‘ Clark Gregg on Wrangling Superheroes in Spandex
When veteran actor Clark Gregg was cast as Agent Phil Coulson in the first Iron Man film, he was thrilled to help bring one of his favorite childhood comics to the big screen. As Tony Stark was tearing his way through bad guys, …
First Position: A Documentary That Stays On Point
In her sweetly soft-shoe directorial debut, documentarian Bess Kargman paints a portrait of ambitious young dancers in a highly competitive world
Today’s Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises
On Friday, audiences will be streaming in droves to see The Avengers, a superhero roundup filled with aliens, Norse gods and giant green rage monsters. But before that movie begins, they’ll see the trailer for a very different kind of superhero movie, The Dark Knight Rises.
An Early Summer Heat Wave: The Avengers Sizzles Abroad
While the U.S. box-office winner was Think Like a Man, the new superhero movie, opening exclusively overseas, blew away the competition
Jason Segel on The Five-Year Engagement
“We’re, like, the least masculine writers in Hollywood,” deadpans Jason Segel, star of The Five-Year Engagement (out today), which he penned with buddy Nicholas Stoller. To wit: his latest flick, The Five Year Engagement, …
Dark Knight and a Vampire-Slaying President: Summer 2012 Movie Preview
The 25 most anticipated movies coming (soon) to a theater near you
Cinecittà: Celebrating 75 Years of the Venerable Italian Studios
Few film studios can claim to have seen as much history as Cinecittà, which has been the hub of Italian cinema for seven decades. Founded by Benito Mussolini in 1937 to film propaganda, Cinecittà was the site of 300 films in …
The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery
In this fitfully diverting thriller, the haunted author racks down a crafty psychopath whose crimes mimic Poe’s most gruesome stories
Sound of My Voice: You’ll Want to Listen to This Cult Leader
Forget, just for a moment, the hubbub over HBO’s Girls and Lena Dunham to consider Brit Marling, another talented 20-something who writes her own strong female leads
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Yo-Ho-OK
The new stop-motion comedy from the Aardman Studios is better than most animated films — except for most other Aardman films