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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE Review: It's Cruise's World, Our Luck to Live In It

Beginning 15 years ago with Valkyrie, a WWII action-thriller centered on the ill-fated, real-life attempt to assassinate Hitler by senior military officers, Academy Award-winning writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) has been in the Tom Cruise business and business, as...

Review: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Grows Into Predictability

Perfectly threadbare in its by-the-numbers execution, the new live-action film Christopher Robin delivers one fresh realization: There’s only one A.A. Milne.  This movie, by comparison passed through the creative hands of at least five individuals in its writing phase.  The...

Review: JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE, A Momentously Audacious Musical Biopic

Making a movie about a musician is bound to be extremely difficult when you don't have the permission of the family's estate. Why has there never been a definitive Elvis biopic -- or Kurt Cobain either, for that matter?...

TIFF 2013 Review: ALL IS BY MY SIDE Is A Momentously Audacious Musical Biopic Fitting of The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Making a movie about a musician is bound to be extremely difficult when you don't have the permission of the family's estate. Why has there never been a definitive Elvis biopic -- or Kurt Cobain either, for that matter?...

THE WORLD'S END World Premiere In Photos

Edgar Wright's third go-around with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World's End, had its official World Premiere in London's Empire Leicester Square cinema tonight and I had the good fortune to be among a small group of online journalists...

TV Review: BLACK MIRROR S2E01, BE RIGHT BACK (Or, Charlie Brooker's Sci-Fi Anthology Returns, Stronger Than Ever)

When Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror began in 2011, it seemed to be focused on being an effective satire above anything else. Its opener, "The National Anthem," is a sensationalist episode that definitely got viewers talking and kept them watching. As...

Hollywood Grind: How Marvel Rewards Loyalty

Yes, you should remain through the credits for Captain America: The First Avenger. Your patience will be rewarded with ... something good that fans of the Marvel universe will want to see. (Also, it's polite to the filmmakers.) That's not...

Weinberg Reviews CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

The Marvel comic book company has no shortage of colorful characters to choose from when constructing a new film, but as far as the most popular leading men are concerned, we may soon be hitting a drought. Obviously the company...

New Trailer For CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER.

Of all the superhero films I find myself drawn more and more to Captain America: The First Avenger over all the others. It just seems to be hitting all the right notes when it comes to action, adventure and fun....

CAPTAIN AMERICA Trailer Gets It Very, Very Right

I missed this while traveling but now that I've seen it it very definitely bears pointing out. The full trailer for Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger gets things very, very right.I haven't been shy about my concerns with...

CAPTAIN AMERICA Super Bowl Trailer

The trailer for Joe Johnston's Captain America is now online, fresh from it's Super Bowl premiere. And while I actually quite like Chris Evans in the title role - he seems much better suited to this that he was to...

Meet The Captain. First CAPTAIN AMERICA Poster.

So. That's the Captain as Marvel is choosing to present him to the world at large. The first trailer will premiere tomorrow during the Superbowl but for now this is rather a nice look at him, I think. If they...

It's CAPTAIN AMERICA In Action.

Marvel's rolling out a one-two punch of their most difficult characters to put on screen this summer with Thor and Captain America. Thor's a tough one to have audiences take seriously because he's a god with a hammer and a...