Starring Alden Ehrenreich as the young Han Solo, Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story is kneecapped by The Force of Corporate Pressure.
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Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond is the new series’ mostly satisfying movie to date, but a gay Sulu and an incoherent action climax are two major problems.
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The first feature (co-)directed by Alf Sjöberg, The Strongest is a visually splendid Arctic adventure. On the downside, the narrative moves at glacial speed.
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‘The Force Awakens’ with Daisy Ridley: ‘Star Wars 7’ negative reviews have been few, but bluntly acerbic. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: Negative reviews have been few, but pointed Star…
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Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster The Cave of the Silken Web
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1 hour of pure fluff, Midnight Madness doesn’t in any way whatsoever do justice to its titillating title. Clive Brook and Jacqueline Logan star.
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Shirtless Kellan Lutz in The Legend of Hercules, with Gaia Weiss. Kellan Lutz ‘Hercules’ movie: Zero percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating Starring Kellan Lutz, best known as the hunky and…
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The landmark Antarctic expedition of explorer Ernest Shackleton is depicted in beautiful and harrowing detail in the 1919 documentary South.
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John Carter of Mars: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins in the box office bomb John Carter. March 20 update: Disney has announced that John Carter‘s disappointing box office returns means…
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Actress Eve Brent, best remembered for playing Jane twice opposite Gordon Scott’s Tarzan, died August 27 of “natural causes” at Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif. She…
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Desert Nights: Enjoyable John Gilbert Sahara adventure dares to ask old philosophical question. Mary Nolan bathes naked and Ernest Torrence steals show.
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Avatar box office breaking more records (as long as inflation is set aside). But what is truly the most successful movie ever made?
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Avatar records at the domestic box office have been mostly restricted to specific subcategories like Best Weekend no. 3.
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For you to enjoy The Wild Women of Wongo, you must focus on what matters: Beautiful physiques and Wongoland’s overall weirdness.
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The Poverty Row jungle flick Nabonga lacks thrills and logic, but it features curious cast members Buster Crabbe and Julie London.
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MGM star Ramon Novarro delivers a charismatic performance in Fred Niblo’s still impressive silent era mega-blockbuster Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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Africa-set operetta Golden Dawn has something to offend, amuse and/or bore everyone. Sweating his black makeup away, Noah Beery is standout.
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Meet the Robinsons’ eccentric characters are key a reason for the enjoyment of Disney’s (Pixar-influenced) futuristic family adventure comedy.
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New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye’s ‘family’ fantasy adventure The Last Mimzy works its magic despite way too many plot holes + product placements.
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As the embodiment of boredom, Bill Murray sinks Wes Anderson’s meandering all-star maritime mis-adventure The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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A first-rate Tom Hanks learns no one is indispensable in Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis’ adventure flick exalting the Triumph of the Human Spirit nonsense.
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Best Actor Oscar nominee Johnny Depp is flawlessly weird in the surprisingly entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Stormtroopers deal with ‘Boycott Star Wars: Episode VII’ Twitter ‘controversy.’ The “Boycott ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’” media idiocy The “Boycott Stars Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” hashtag, concisely…
Star Trek: Into Darkness weekend box office: Downright disappointing domestic debut (image: Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness) J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness, featuring Chris Pine…
Penélope Cruz, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides May 26: Featuring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin, Ian McShane, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the…
Land of the Lost movie with Will Ferrell. ‘Last of the Lost’ movie images with Anna Friel & Will Ferrell Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, and Danny McBride star as, respectively, has-been scientist…
In the memorable Sparrows, silent era icon Mary Pickford meets Jesus while fighting the evils of child trafficking. They don’t make them like they used to.
King Kong 2005. The biggest disappointment about Peter Jackson’s King Kong is that, despite all the p.r. regarding Jackson’s fascination with the Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933…