Unknown movie box office: Liam Neeson thriller has no chance of matching the commercial success of the sleeper global hit Taken. January Jones and Diane Kruger costar.
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The Roommate movie box office: Poorly received low-budget thriller has beaten a far costlier action thriller executive produced by James Cameron.
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José Padilha’s Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is officially the biggest blockbuster ever at the Brazilian box office, surpassing Avatar.
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Black Swan (movie 2010) review: Oscar winner Natalie Portman rises to the challenge in Darren Aronofsky’s brilliantly multilayered psychological thriller. Mila Kunis costars.
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Black Swan box office: Starring Natalie Portman, Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller became 2010’s second biggest global sleeper hit. Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey costar.
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The Next Three Days movie box office: After a series of duds in the last few years, Russell Crowe has laid one of his biggest eggs yet domestically.
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Unstoppable movie box office: The latest Tony Scott and Denzel Washington action thriller is about to become a major money-loser. Star Trek actor Chris Pine costars.
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The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet An encore presentation of John Huston’s 1941 Best Picture nominee The Maltese Falcon, will be presented by the…
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Inception movie box office feat: Christopher Nolan’s original, adult-oriented sci-fi thriller became one of the biggest blockbusters of 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard star.
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Salt movie box office: With Philip Noyce’s spy thriller, Angelina Jolie has another action hit following Mr. & Mrs. Smith and the more recent Wanted.
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Igor Samobor in 9:06. Some movies are hard to write about because they don’t have anything to say. Others are hard to write about because what they’re actually saying is…
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Film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Good news for LA-based film noirs fans: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a…
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The Bubble (movie 1966) review: Starring Deborah Walley and Michael Cole, Arch Oboler’s 3D B sci-fi thriller can be an enjoyable experience – as long as you’re not too picky.
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Shutter Island box office: Despite a number of dismissive reviews, the dark thriller may become the biggest Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio hit.
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Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese mystery thrillers are Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear entries in addition to latest Mirjana Karanovic movie.
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Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…
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Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture…
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The Abyss film with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th…
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Synopsis: West Texas, 1980: A hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon numerous dead bodies, a stash of heroin, and $2 million in cash lying about in the region’s arid wasteland near…
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Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
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Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
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Femme Fatale Ann Savage: Detour actress The Meanest Woman in Film History for superlative performance as film noir psychopath.
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In the languid late summer days, Neil LaBute’s low-budget movie Lakeview Terrace has been able to top the domestic box office chart.
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Baghead (movie 2008) review: Jay and Mark Duplass’ clever indie comedy and thriller mix isn’t your usual ‘cabin in the woods’ tale. Greta Gerwig and Ross Partridge star.
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WALL-E box office: The animated feature had one of Pixar’s biggest debuts ever, while an Angelina Jolie thriller is an indisputable hit.
AFI Awards criminal family values movie wins 10 trophies while Jane Campion romantic drama gets 3 plus supporting or lead Jacki Weaver for the Oscars?
The American movie box office: George Clooney action thriller has topped the domestic chart despite (at best) lukewarm audience interest.
Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
Green Zone movie box office: Baghdad-set Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass reunion has turned out to be Universal’s latest commercial dud. Amy Ryan and Greg Kinnear costar.
Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads…
Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
Before the Fall movie. F. Javier Gutiérrez’s 3 Días / Before the Fall, the filmmaker’s feature-film debut (co-produced by Antonio Banderas), has an unlikely premise: as a giant meteorite is…