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Total Recall Revisited: What Colin and Arnold Can Tell Us About Pop Culture
What can we learn from comparing the new Total Recall with the original from 20 years ago? Perhaps something about America’s mortality, subtle sexuality and the need for deeper meaning
Today’s Movie Trailer: Skyfall
Despite production delays that pushed back its release date, the 23rd James Bond movie—with Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007—will finally appear in U.S. theaters on Nov. 9. And just days after the famous secret agent made a tongue-in-cheek, skydiving-with-the-Queen appearance at the Olympics Opening Ceremony in London on Friday …
The Shining Prequel?: Horror Classic May Get Backstory
Jack Torrance may be returning to the Overlook Hotel
Dark Knight Rises Tops Box Office Again: What ‘Aurora Effect’?
Don’t believe the doomsday hype about audiences frightened to go to the movies. If they stayed home on Friday, it was only to watch the Olympic spectacular
Killer Joe: Matthew McConaughey as the Creepiest Cop in Texas
Still a prime seducer, the star of Hollywood rom-coms goes weird and wild in William Friedkin’s entertainingly outrageous movie
Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in The Watch: Unwatchable
Three top comedy stars and the director of SNL’s funniest videos team up for a tired comedy with sci-fi elements. These guys can be so smart — where are their brains?
Ruby Sparks: (500) Days of Bummer
Designed to be this summer’s hot indie comedy, the latest from the duo that directed ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ woos but doesn’t seduce
Today’s Movie Trailer: Life of Pi
Yann Martel’s best-selling novel is the story of a boy who gets shipwrecked on a boat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker — sort of. Of course, there’s so much more to the story than that. It remains to be seen how Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will handle the narrative, but if the first trailer is any indication, the movie …
Bourne Legacy Featurette Explains Links Between New Movie and Trilogy
The Bourne Legacy makes no claims to stand on its own, apart from the trilogy that gave this new movie, opening Aug. 10, any life at all. In fact, Universal studio executives want you to know all about the connection, hoping for …
Zoe Kazan: Not a Dream, a Surprise
“I’m not manic, I’m not a pixie and I’m not a dream girl.”
The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne?
The end of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie hints at a new protector of Gotham City, but who is John Blake, really? Be warned: spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Dark Knight Rises App Is a Musical Tour of Gotham City
Composer Hans Zimmer puts customized Batman sounds on your iPhone