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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Nationalists are responsible for a string of bombings pushing Germany and France to the brink of war coinciding with the apparent suicide of the Prince of Austria, but Sherlock Holmes knows this is no coincidence but rather the master plan of his counterpart, the malevolent Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris). Now with Dr. Watson, who is [...]

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The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011)

Written as one extended climax, The Adventures of Tintin can be a draining experience, and one generally bereft of traditionally dramatic human elements. Yet the film bursts with such exuberance and imagination that even the Uncanny Valley limitations of motion-capture animation vanish in Brobdingnagian sequences so vast they make the special effect showcases of the Indiana Jones films look [...]

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The Best of 2011

There has been an unfounded claim circling about for awhile now that goes something like “there’s no good movies out there” or something to that effect. While there is certainly a large amount of rubbish being dumped in the theaters, it is these films that seem to find the biggest audiences, authenticating their validity and [...]

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Movie Audiences Shrink Below Post-Sept. 11 Level, ‘New Year’s Eve’ Opens with Weak $13.7 Million

Hollywood’s holidays are off to a dreadful start: Fewer people went to the movies the last two weekends than during the box-office hush that followed the Sept. 11 attacks 10 years ago. Domestic revenues tumbled to a 2011 low of about $77 million this weekend, when the star-filled, holiday-themed romance “New Year’s Eve” debuted at [...]

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Mary Mary Cancel Christmas Tour

Amidst an unprecedented run of award shows, nominations, non-stop travel for holiday performances and a television series taping underway, the star sister duo, Mary Mary’s Erica and Tina Campbell, is regretfully forced to cancel their much anticipated first ever “Have A Mary Mary Christmas Tour” as Erica’s February due date draws near. The singer has [...]

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Arthur Christmas: Not Just Another Christmas Movie

It’s the night before Christmas and a little girl might not get her present. It falls to Arthur, Father Christmas’ ungainly but sentimental youngest son (James McAvoy), and his retired, ex-Stanta granddad (imaginatively called Grandsanta and voiced by Bill Nighy), to see that this doesn’t happen. En route, the dysfunctional duo narrowly escape from wild [...]

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Gospel Icon Kirk Franklin ‘Very Grateful’ for Success of 11th Album

Contemporary gospel icon Kirk Franklin says he’s simply “very grateful” over the reception for his 11th album, “Hello Fear.”  The set, his first studio album in four years and his debut for Verity Records, is Franklin’s first album since 2002 to debut in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 — No. 5 when it [...]

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Profile: Bela Tarr

Hungarian cinema is an important cinematic movement, but sadly one that does not get enough recognition. Perhaps the greatest Hungarian filmmaker is Bela Tarr. Tarr has only made nine feature films, and with the release of his latest one has announced his retirement. I haven’t seen any of his films, but I have four of [...]

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Viggo Mortensen Doesn’t Think His LOTR Character Aragorn Will be In ‘The Hobbit’

Viggo Mortensen doesn’t expect to reprise his Aragorn character in the next installments of Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” series, the actor revealed to Movies.com. The news may not surprise those familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Hobbit” novel, as Aragorn did not appear in it.  However, Mortensen told the movies blog that producer Peter Jackson [...]

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George Clooney to Play Steve Jobs in Upcoming Biopic?

There’s a rumor circulating that George Clooney may be “battling it out” with fellow former-ER star Noah Wyle to take on the lead role in the Steve Jobs biopic by Sony, which is set to be based on Walter Isaacson’s biography about the Apple mastermind.  The source of this rumor appears to be the U.K. tabloid Now [...]

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