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May 14, 2012
The Avengers handily overpowered Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows over the weekend, becoming the top film at the box office for […]
May 11, 2012
The history Egon Schiele’s 1912 oil painting Portrait of Wally is one that seems too incredible to be true. Purchased […]
May 10, 2012
A Bag of Hammers tells the story of Ben (Jason Ritter, “Parenthood”) and Alan (Jake Sandvig, Easy A), two twentysomething […]
May 9, 2012
Here, director Simon Wincer (Free Willy, “Lonesome Dove”) recounts the making of his inspirational sports drama The Cup, based on […]
May 7, 2012
So, you might have heard—The Avengers did pretty well at the box office this weekend. If by “pretty well” you […]
May 4, 2012
As a Hitchcock enthusiast, for years I wanted to direct a dark, suspenseful thriller. So I spent a of couple […]
May 3, 2012
Oscar-winning director Jessica Yu writes about the making of her new documentary Last Call at the Oasis. Brought to you […]
April 30, 2012
New wide releases The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Five-Year Engagement, Safe and The Raven failed to snatch the number […]
April 27, 2012
Staten Island’s PS22 Chorus isn’t your normal elementary school extracurricular group. Though the name might not immediately ring a bell, […]
April 26, 2012
After taking a detour into the world of CGI for last year’s Arthur Christmas, Aardman Animations—the studio behind the Wallace […]
April 24, 2012
Here, actor-turned-director John Stockwell (Crazy/Beautiful, Blue Crush, Into the Blue), whose most recent film as a director, Dark Tide, comes […]
April 23, 2012
Sayonara, The Hunger Games! After a month of ruling the roost, new release Think Like a Man grabbed the box […]
April 20, 2012
Co-directors of the Oscar-nominated Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud have tackled another one of graphic novelist Satrapi’s works for […]
April 18, 2012
In Benjamin Dickinson’s feature directorial debut First Winter, a group of Brooklyn hipsters at a yoga retreat in upstate New […]
April 18, 2012
To get a sense of Finnish director Petri Kotwica’s Rat King, try imagining a standard thriller. Then infuse it with […]
April 16, 2012
In Irish director Ian Fitzgibbon’s Death of a Superhero, teenager Donald’s creativity, active imagination and innate talent combine to make […]
April 16, 2012
The Hunger Games fought its way to the top yet again, becoming the first film since Avatar to claim the […]
April 2, 2012
Well, they were worthy contenders, but The Hunger Games managed to defeat Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror both, […]
March 27, 2012
For some, the issue of climate change is an academic one: How is the way in which we live our […]
March 26, 2012
Everyone knew that The Hunger Games would triumph at the box office last weekend- not least because no other new […]
March 23, 2012
As bad as things have gotten in recent memory, dystopian movies have always been there to remind us of one simple fact: It could be much, much worse.
March 20, 2012
Talk to anyone over the age of, say, 20, and chances are good that they grew up learning about the […]