It’s a dead zone at the movies this week. Hollywood’s annual exorcism film, The Devil Inside, is the only real new movie release. Like we said, a dead zone.
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Top 10 Memorable Movie Eating Scenes
From ‘9 1/2 Weeks’ to a 96-ounce hunk of beef, here’s a full menu of scenes we find cinematically delicious
The Cure for the Ailing Movie Business Is To … Raise Ticket Prices?
Last year was a bad one for the movie business, with the fewest tickets sold since 1995and revenues that dropped 4.5% from the previous year. Analysts foresee a better year ahead in 2012, and what is it that’s expected to turn …
Watch This Wordy Margin Call Scene Reduced to Lots of Uncomfortable Silences
Margin Call is one of last year’s more surprising little successes. A film about a single night at a Wall Street investment firm when the masters of that little universe discover that their business is about to implode, the …
20 Movies We’re Looking Forward to in 2012 (and 10 We’re Definitely Not)
MacBooks and iPhones—The Real Stars of Mission: Impossible and Dragon Tattoo
I used this past holiday weekend the way the lord intended it to be used — as a time to catch up on some new movies. One I made sure to see was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher’s remake of the Swedish film version …
The Deadening Familiarity of the 2011 Box Office
Sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, comic book movie, reboot, comic book movie. Those are the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2011.
The Five Ways To Know You’re Watching a Spielberg Movie
Between War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin and the Christmas/New Year’s Jaws marathons on Spike, there’s a decent chance you saw something directed by Steven Spielberg over these past few holiday weekends. And like any director …
Mish Imp 4 Gives Hollywood a Happy New Year’s (Weekend)
Tom Terrific helps spur the box office to a 3% boost over same time, last year
From Rin Tin Tin to Snowy in Tintin: Hollywood’s Most Memorable Movie Dogs
Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography
Star Matt Damon shines bright, but all else in blight, in this egregiously dewy family drama
Spielberg’s 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It’s Tintinastic!
The 65-year-old boy wonder finds a kindred spirit in Hergé’s teen hero, and the beloved comic book becomes a whirling, almost abstract miracle of nonstop motion
Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle
J.C. Chandor nibbled at the edges of the big time for a decade and a half. He directed short movies, commercials, all the things that one days when they’re trying to break through. Then, a few years ago, he found the story he was …