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Today’s Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises
The trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is finally out, and the final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy looks very promising.
Your Afternoon Movie Clip: Kim Jong Il in Team America
Most of the writers and editors have been scrambling around here at the TIME offices, covering all the angles of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death. Here at TIME Entertainment, we’ve been watching that hilarious Tim Tebow sketch from this weekend’s SNL over and over again. But we felt left out of today’s big news. So here’s a …
Video: Watch Tom Cruise Do That Thing Where He Runs All Over the Place
Moviegoers who caught Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol this weekend (in early release on 425 IMAX screens) were able to see: Tom Cruise run from a Kremlin bombing, Tom Cruise run from a Dubai sandstorm and Tom Cruise run down …
Sherlock Holmes and The Chipmunks: When Sequels Are Weak-quels
The soft openings for two top franchises bring more bad news to Hollywood: now the industry can’t even bank on retreads
Mission: Impossible 4: Cruise Control
With Pixar’s Brad Bird at the helm of this bustling live-action feature, the aging Tom Terrific tries to restore the covenant between a star and his fans
Alvin and the Chipmunks, or The Burdens of Parenthood
Every parent sacrifices: hours logged at cold skating rinks, wet soccer fields, airless American Girl stores. And that’s the stuff that comes after toilet training. Then there are the movies targeted at children too young to …
Golden Globe Nominations: Pitt and Clooney In, Spielberg and Malick Out
They love George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and of course Brangelina. They’re so over Spielberg. And they didn’t care at all for The Tree of Life.
This morning, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe award …
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits
Guy Ritchie sends Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law on another chase-filled case; but this sequel is no equal to the savory 2009 original
The Artist Leads 2011 Golden Globe Nominations With Six Bids
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Silent film is taking over Hollywood’s awards scene. The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical and acting honors for its French …
Firth’s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic
In a recent issue of TIME, we postulated Firth’s Theorem, a simple equation for calculating a movie’s odds of winning nominations and statuettes during awards season. Here’s how it works:
1) Is the movie about famous, …
Polanski’s Carnage: When Talk Turns Toxic
“We’re all decent people, all four of us.” Michael Longstreet (John C. Reilly) says to his wife and their two new friends in Roman Polanski’s Carnage. At that moment, viewers know they’re being fed an unintended-irony pill. It …
First Look: Christopher Nolan Screens Dark Knight Rises Prologue
The first six minutes of the new Batman film are set to screen ahead of Mission: Impossible in select IMAX theaters