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My Top 10 Holiday Movies

To celebrate the holiday season, I’ve created a list of my top 10 holiday movies, starting at #10 and working down to #1. To be honest, this was a tough list to create. The pool of Christmas movies leaves much to be desired. But if you find yourself loopy on eggnog, keeping warm by the [...]

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The Crappiest Christmas Movies

Compiling a list of Christmas movies that prompt us to cleanse our emotional palate in a vat of nog is tough because there are so many to choose from. Check out Maxim’s List of the crappiest Christmas movies ever made.

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Seth Rogen to Host ’12 Independent Spirit Awards for Some Reason

EW has confirmed that Seth Rogen will host the 27th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 25, 2012. Rogen, who is best known for repeatedly playing an overweight, unfunny stoner, is also nominated as part of the producing team of ’50/50′, in which he stars an an overweight, unfunny stoner. Besides producing ’50/50′, Rogen is [...]

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Tom Cruise Discusses His Desire to Make ‘Top Gun 2′

It’s been over a year since we learned that Tony Scott was apparently attached to return to the adrenaline-fueled, high-flying action flick Top Gun with Tom Cruise back in the cockpit for a sequel. Since then, there haven’t been any real developments on the project and Scott has taken on plenty more projects under his [...]

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Martin Scorsese Revives Adaptation of ‘Silence’ for His Next Project

Nearly three years ago, there were rumblings that director Martin Scorsese (who has the fantastic film Hugo in theaters right now) would take on an adaptation of Shusako Endo’s novel Silence, the story of missionaries in 17th Century Japan, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio del Toro attached to star. The project hadn’t made any progress [...]

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Favorite Movie Grace Scenes

Grace, the prayer before the movie meal, is the screenwriter’s invitation to insert raucous hilarity. Check out Maxim’s list of their favorite Grace Scenes. Ben Stiller teaches us a valuable lesson here. If you’re a Jewish man stuck having dinner with WASPs, you can pretty much escape any awkward situation by reaching into the 1970 [...]

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Budget Breakdown: What are the riskiest films of 2012?

As reported by The New York Post, Mars Needs Moms — the final product of Zemeckis’ studio ImageMovers Digital — lost more than $125 million at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the film grossed just $21 million domestically and $17 million abroad, off a reported $150 million budget which was presumably significantly [...]

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10 Best Thanksgiving Movies

Sure, you could schlep out to the cinema to see any number of underwhelming movies this Thanksgiving weekend, but why bother with the car and the kids and the coats? You’ve got Netflix! Gather your family around the TV and stream one of these uplifting stories about how humans, forced by birth to interact with [...]

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Fox Doesn’t Like David Cronenberg’s New ‘Fly’ Script

While many critics scream “f*ck remake”, they always forget of classic reboots such as David Cronenberg’s The Fly, which was based on Kurt Neumann’s 1958 film of the same name starring the great Vincent Price. And while Fox has originally planned to re-remake the film, in 2009 Cronenberg was eventually attached to develop a sequel [...]

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Sacha Baron Cohen Taking a Role in Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

This is crazy! As an early 2012 production start date looms closer, it’s amazing that the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming western Django Unchained keeps getting better pretty much every other week. Jamie Foxx is already on board to play the title character of a slave-turned-bounty hunter on a mission to rescue his wife (Kerry [...]

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