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In a future where the government keeps a tight rein on the populace, the annual reminder of an earlier failed uprising is The Hunger Games, a televised battle to the death of teens chosen from each of 12 districts. When her young sister Prim (Willow Shields) is ...

Horror movies are wondrous things. With a horror movie, one can confront their deepest darkest fears and survive them. The rush of adrenaline at the sight of danger gives way to the sigh of relief and chuckle of amusement when that danger is revealed to be harmless. ...

There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no...

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...

PARK CITY, Utah — We were not even four hours into Sundance John Cooper-style...

Talking on the phone with longtime record producer-turned-filmmaker Duncan Bridgeman, you get the feeling you’re talking to an extremely friendly, hippie version of Hunter S. Thompson...

Here's a really cool idea for a film: you're a U.S. Marshal working at a United States research facility in Antarctica, helping keep the peace. Like a campus cop, your primary job is dealing with drunks and minor thefts, but you're hoping that a major crime will ...

Skyline is a mediocre film with fundamental flaws, a cast of B-list actors playing to stereotypes and a startlingly unsatisfying and bizarre ending. Still, after classic sci-fi films like War of the Worlds posit aliens that can be defeated by the common cold or ...

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D...

The most startling shot in Paranormal Activity 3 is something even the film’s determined unbelievers would concede to be damnably effective...

At some point, Mission Impossible and the 007 series “freaky Fridayed.” Bond moved from implausible ridiculousness to slightly-more-grounded cloak-and-daggerism, whereas Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is now climbing into airplanes by holding on to a door handle while it ...

The Chicago Sun-Times obituary by Neil Steinberg couldn’t have said it better: “Roger Ebert loved movies.” Considering that he reviewed thousands upon thousands of them, it was a good thing. From 1967 to his death in 2013, Ebert was the film critic for the Chicago ...