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America, Assemble!

Why The Avengers represents much more than colorful costumes. Read more

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Donald Miller Goes to the Movies

The author reveals how they brought Blue Like Jazz to the big screen—and why t... Read more

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Let the Hunger Games Begin

Why the story of Katniss Everdeen resonates with so many readers. Read more

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2012 Oscars: The Year of The Artist

This year, Hollywood came out to celebrate movies about, well, old Hollywood. ... Read more

Blog

  • Q&A with Jason Segel

    Jason Segel has never been a conventional leading man. Nevertheless, he's maintained a presence on both the small screen and big screen thanks to endearing roles in Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I Love You, Man. Last year, Segel became a household name—and a ...

  • Behind The Academy Awards

    One only needs to be a casual observer of popular culture to recognize the much-hyped “Awards Season” that is January and February. It seems that in these months, Hollywood is giving high fives, standing ovations and acceptance speeches left, right and center. All of this congratulating culminates w ...

  • Movies that Matter—Three Colors: Blue

    Julie, the character played by Juliette Binoche in Blue, the first film in the Three Colors trilogy, is not an easy woman to like. It’s true we feel for her—she loses both her husband and young daughter to a single car accident in the film’s first few minutes—but how she responds to her tragedy isn’ ...

  • Movies that Matter: The Seventh Seal

    The apartment across from ours has been decorated with cobwebs, skulls and tombstones since late September. The skulls are cartoonish and exaggerated, the better to gloss over the fact that a skull is a head stripped of its flesh, muscle tissue, teeth and eyes, not to mention the body it once a belo ...

  • The Stories Behind Absent

    As we sat backstage at Central Christian Church in Mesa, Ariz., the 2,000-seat sanctuary filled with eager fans—those of both Metallica's lead singer James Hetfield and of filmmaker Justin Hunt, who directed 2008’s award-winning documentary American Meth. The sold-out crowd came to screen Hunt’s lat ...

Reviews

REVIEW: The Avengers

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The crowning achievement of Marvel movies. Read more

REVIEW: Marley

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A long-awaited and honest look at the iconic musician. Read more

REVIEW: Titanic 3D

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Somehow, our film reviewer had never seen Titanic—until now. Here's what he th... Read more

REVIEW: The Hunger Games

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How does the film stack up to the beloved series? Viewers need not worry. Read more