“How’d you get up there?” asks Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy to Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker at the start of the newly released trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. “Fire escape,” he responds. “It’s 20 stories,” bats back Stacy …
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Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy
Ben Gazzara, born a street kid in Manhattan, died there on Friday, at 81, of pancreatic cancer—one of the few opponents tougher than he was.
What is the Best Best Picture of All-TIME?
Follow along (and vote) as TIME readers pick Oscar’s top Best Picture winner ever. Click on the matchups below on the dates indicated to participate.
Which Is The Better Best Picture: The Godfather or Terms of Endearment?
The readers of TIME.com are choosing the BEST Best Picture of All-TIME. Come back every day to vote on a different match-up, and take a look at the full bracket.
A Super Bowl Squeaker: Chronicle Edges The Woman in Black
Superhero teens battled Harry Potter and a dead lady, and all Hollywood cheered this high-grossing battle
Announcing TIME’s Best Best Picture Bracket. Vote on Oscar’s Greatest Film
Eighty-three movies have been dubbed Best Picture since the first Oscar ceremony in 1927. That year, the silent WWI flying film Wings won the top prize over two other nominees. It remains the only silent film to ever win Best …
Today’s Movie Trailer: More Hunger Games. Yay!
What, you want us to say something about this? Just watch it, will ya?
The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks
In The Innkeepers, writer/director Ti West’s first true project since his acclaimed 80’s retro horror film The House of the Devil, a pair of likeable slacker clerks, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are left in charge …
The Woman in Black: Harry Potter and the Spooky Mansion
Daniel Radcliffe, sprung from Hogwarts, is menaced by another evil spirit armed with Voldemortian intentions and some killer sound effects
Is The Help The Most Loathsome Movie in America?
Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale
This energetic family movie, about a pod of whales trapped in Alaskan ice, is less insipid than it looks.
Chronicle: It’s Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage
A troubled teen gets telekinetic powers, and films himself flying high and going mad, in this diverting, annoying horror movie
Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe
What would you do if you started losing your senses, one at a time? Ewan McGregor has the right idea: cuddle up to Eva Green