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• WATCH: 'Monsters University' Trailer Suggests 'Lincoln' Isn't The Only Movie About A Team Of Rivals

  Personally, I'd rather see a Monsters, Inc. sequel rather than a prequel.  I even have a story in mind: The up-to-no-good WolfsBain Capital does a ... 

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  Old Fiends: 'Jack The Giant Slayer' Big Baddies Recall Klaus Kinski, Rondo Hatton and...Shemp Howard?

  Klaus Kinski, Rondo Hatton and Shemp Howard will always be giants in my personal pantheon of great character actors. And now, I swear, they are giants 

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  'Mea Maxima Culpa' Director Alex Gibney Praises Pope Benedict's Resignation

  When I learned of the news that Pope Benedict XVI was going to become the first pope in six centuries to resign from office,  I immediately thought, ... 

• Zach Attack: Galifianakis Annoys Jen Lawrence & Other Oscar Noms On 'Between Two Ferns'

  After all the tiptoeing and carefully constructed speechifying that has accompanied the Oscar race so far, it's fun to see Jennifer Lawrence, Naomi ... 

• Oscar Index: Killing 'Lincoln' Is All The Rage As Academy Voting Begins

  The mailing of the final Oscar ballots this week signals the final stage of what has been the most volatile and tumultuous Oscar race in years. 

• REVIEW: Rooney Mara Will Hold You Shrink-Rapt In Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects'

  What begins as a barbed satire of our pill-popping, self-medicating society morphs into something intriguingly different in Side Effects. 

• REVIEW: Melissa McCarthy Steals 'Identity Thief' − But The Movie's Payoff Is Slight

  With Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes to carry a feature, however meager the underlying material. Sustaining the same ... 

• 'Side Effects' Contest: Win A Poster Signed By Cast Members With An Ode To Your Fave Pharmaceutical

  Calling all Steven Soderbergh fans and movie-loving hypochondriacs. Time to cue up Pink's "Just Like A Pill" on Spotify and get your haiku mojo ... 

• You Know, That Guy In 'Lincoln'....Hugh Jackman 'Forgets' Day-Lewis' Name

  Here's a novel way to keep from getting worked up about your main Oscar rival: forget his name entirely. For Time magazine's Great Performances video ... 

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  WATCH: Rob Zombie's 'The Lords Of Salem' Trailer Looks Like A Crust-Punk 'Rosemary's Baby'

  The first thing I thought when I saw this trailer for Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem was, oh good, someone's finally made a movie about what it was ... 

• WATCH: Noooo! Did 'Home Alone' Inspire The Climactic Scenes Of 'Skyfall'?

  Well played, Honest Trailer people.  Sam Mendes makes the first James Bond movie that I've ever genuinely cared about, Skyfall, and, with a single ... 

• WATCH: 'Side Effects' Star Rooney Mara Says Steven Soderbergh Was Just What The Doctor Ordered For Her Career

  Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones were all on the red carpet for the premiere of Side Effects in New York City, and I ... 

• Tales Of The Military-Entertainment Complex: Why The U.S. Navy Produced 'Battleship'

  The biggest upset of this year’s Oscars took place weeks before the actual ceremony, when Zero Dark Thirty helmer Kathryn Bigelow was snubbed for a ... 

• Al Pacino And His Hoo-Ah! Hairpieces Aren't The Only Reason To Watch HBO's 'Phil Spector' Trailer

  Can I get a Hoo-Ah? Al Pacino has had a good run playing reviled real-life characters in HBO movies and miniseries, and, based on this trailer for ... 

• It's Easy Being Green At Disney! Yoda and Hulk Movies May Be In The Works

  Is Disney still suffering from Shrek envy?  Over the last two days the blogosphere has generated unconfirmed reports that the House of Mouse is ... 

• WATCH: 'Charles Swan III' Director Roman Coppola Reveals His Inspiration For The Secret Society of Ball Busters

  So, how did Roman Coppola come up with the idea for The Secret Society of Ball Busters?  I talked to writer and director of A Glimpse Inside the Mind ... 

• 'Going Clear' Author: Time For Tom Cruise To 'Open His Eyes' To Scientology

  New Yorker writer, Lawrence Wright appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe talk show to discuss his new book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the ... 

• WATCH: 'World War Z'-ero! Ranking The Super Bowl Movie Trailers From Worst To Best

  Even if you didn't watch the big game last night, you know that a) Beyonce brought the house — or was it the lights? — down, and b) six big movie ... 

• Steven Soder-burnt: Retiring Director Says He Used His 'Last Good Idea' While Making 'Side Effects'

  As Steven Soderbergh said at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's preview screening of Side Effects on Wednesday, "There’s Movie A and there’s Movie ... 

• 'Koch' Debuts In New York As Former Mayor Ed Koch Dies At 88

  Call it strangely eerie or a fitting send off, on the same day that former New York mayor Ed Koch died, a new documentary about him and titled simply, ... 

• Will 'The Impossible' Make Oscar Possible For Naomi Watts?

  Here’s a shout-out for Naomi Watts, and I am afraid she'll need it.  She's the sole Oscar nominee from director J.A. Bayona’s  The Impossible, and ... 

• SXSW Film Festival Unveils 2013 Competitions, Premieres And More

  The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival unveiled its lineup of 109 features including 69 world premieres Thursday. The festival, ... 

• WATCH: Sylvester Stallone Shows Off Some Gray Matter At 'Bullet to the Head' Premiere

  Sylvester Stallone doesn't just use his cranium for a battering ram.  On the red carpet at Tuesday's premiere of Bullet to the Head, the enduring ... 

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  'ABCs Of Death' Exclusive Interview: 'Metalocalypse's' Jon Schnepp Talks 'W Is For WTF'

  Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z,  in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film ... 

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  Jessica Chastain Eyes Liv Ullmann 'Miss Julie'

  Jessica Chastain is riding high with her critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated performance in Zero Dark Thirty, but her next gig may be a bit of an ...