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By Craig Kennedy - June 26th, 2009; 2:05 pm Forget about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It’s already gotten clobbered by critics and it’s already made more at the box office than a dozen movies better than it combined. See it if you want, but there’s really nothing left to say about it, is there? On the other hand, there’s another little action movie coming out this weekend in Los Angeles and New York. It’s not opening on 4000+ screens, but it’s pretty great and proof that you can make an action movie and still have a brain in your head. The movie is Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. It tells the story of an elite bomb disposal squad working to keep the streets of Baghdad safe for Iraqis and Americans alike. It’s not strictly apolitical – I think it’s an anti-war picture in that it shows the excoriating effects of war... [read full story]
NBC sketch series taps 'Twilight' hunk "New Moon" star Taylor Lautner will host the Dec. 12 edition of "Saturday Night Live," NBC has announced. Lautner, who plays Jacob in the hit "Twilight" franchise, will be paired with...
Film Reviews: Debuting writer-helmer Pawel Borowski attempts an audacious juggling act in "Zero," an intensely thesped criss-crosser that introduces 24 different plotlines intersecting over a 24-hour period. While there's much...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife to appear in pic France's first lady Carla Bruni will appear in Woody Allen's Gaul-set film, due to shoot next summer. The wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy will play a secondary role,...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) will increase production in its plant in Russia after the government announced programmes to support car sales, the firm said on Wednesday. "With the car scrappage...
