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X-Men: Days of Future Past with Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’: Bryan Singer has a surefire hit with latest ‘X-Men’ sequel With yet another spring and summer movie season overstuffed with superhero extravaganzas, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men series, which debuted in…

Need for Speed: Tom Cruise Top Gun 3D IMAX. Tom Cruise in Top Gun 3D IMAX Trailer (in 2D) Tom Cruise tells Anthony Edwards: “I feel the need … The need for speed.” High five. Whether you find that hip and cool, or if you…

The Hobbit with the Gollum a.k.a. Andy Serkis. Starring Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo Baggins, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first installment in the cinematic trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s (not all that long) 1937 novel The Hobbit – is…

Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy with Madonna. June 22 update: Warren Beatty used to be known as a Ladies’ Man. Before Annette Bening, there were stories about Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Jean Seberg, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Joan Collins, Carly Simon, Faye Dunaway, Madonna, etc.…

The Tree of Life 2011 with Brad Pitt. Terrence Malick’s 1950s-set family drama The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, was perhaps the most eagerly anticipated film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It would be inaccurate to say…

Brent Corrigan movie Judas Kiss. Gay and lesbian movies Judas Kiss – starring gay porn star Brent Corrigan (as Sean Paul Lockhart) – Trigger, Mangus!, Leading Ladies and Suicide Room have been acquired by Wolfe Releasing. Those five titles will be released on DVD and…

Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson, the stars of Tomas Alfredson’s vampire drama Let the Right One In, arrive for the Jameson Empire Film Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, on March 28 in London, England. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty…

Modern Times: Charles Chaplin meets René Clair. The screening of a digitally restored 35mm print of Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) and a look at rare behind-the-scenes photographs revealing the techniques used in creating the film’s special effects will be the focus of “Techno Chaplin,”…

Pixar Cars with Lightning McQueen. Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson (as McQueen) and veteran Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hud), the Pixar blockbuster directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Joe Ranft was the 2006 Annie Awards’ Best Animated Feature. However,…

The Constant Gardener with Ralph Fiennes. All but ignored this awards season in the U.S., two-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (as Best Supporting Actor for Schindler’s List, 1993; as Best Actor for The English Patient, 1996) is a Best Actor British Academy Award contender for…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring hobbits: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Sean Astin, and Dominic Monaghan. Ring-related conflicts on screen and coin-related conflicts off screen. Peter Jackson and his WingNut Films vs. New Line Cinema: The Lord of the Rings lawsuit…

Alfred Kinsey ca. 1950: Kinsey Scale creator. Criticized by some for his methodology and by others for daring to delve into the issue of human sexuality, Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey became both one of the most admired and one of the most reviled personages of…