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This Week in Movies: 'Bananas' Appeals, 'Fast Five' Revs Up, 'Hoodwinked'...
This Week in 1971: 'Bananas' Slips Into Theaters These days, it's a surprise and a relief when Woody Allen turns out a gem of a picture (like 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' or 'Match Point') that's as...
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This Week in Movies: Sleds, Norse Gods and Hand Puppets
This Week in 1941: 'Citizen Kane' Sleds Into History 'Citizen Kane' may or may not be the greatest movie ever made, but it's almost surely the greatest cautionary tale ever to come out of Hollywood....
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This Week in Movies: Cute Robots, Drunken Bridesmaids and Rampant Vampires
This Week in 1986: 'Short Circuit' Comes Alive As movies about adorable robots go, 'Short Circuit' (released 25 years ago this week, on May 9, 1986) wasn't exactly a masterpiece, but it's a fondly...
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This Week in Movies: Tom Cruise, Pirate Crews and Penelope Cruz
This Week in 1986: 'Top Gun' Takes Flight There's a movie where Tom Cruise stars as a cocky guy with specialized skills and a lot of daddy-abandonment issues. He excels at his chosen pursuit until...
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This Week in Movies: Assertive Women, Drunken Men and an Angry Panda
This Week in 1991: 'Thelma & Louise' and Madonna Take Charge Twenty years ago this week (on May 24, 1991) came the wide release of two movies that celebrated strong, assertive women, the likes of...
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This Week in Movies: Fragrant Drag Queens and Adorable Mutants
This Week in 1981: 'Polyester' Wafts Into Theaters 3D may be the gimmick of the moment, but 30 years ago this week (on May 29, 1981), John Waters came up with a different way to extend movies into a...
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This Week in Movies: Steven Spielberg Nostalgia Edition
This Weekend's Other Anniversary: The Legacy of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' It's probably no coincidence that 'Super 8,' an homage by J.J. Abrams to the kind of movies Steven Spielberg specialized in 30...
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This Week in Movies: Rich Kings, Power Rings and Flightless Wings
This Week in 1981: 'History of the World: Part I' Drops Wisdom History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. (So said one of the Marxes, Groucho or Karl, I forget which.) Mel Brooks took...
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This Week in Movies: Twin Terrors, Car Toons and School Belles
Forget 'Meatballs' or 'Wet Hot American Summer.' Everyone's favorite summer camp movie seems to be 'The Parent Trap,' where Hayley Mills goes to camp and instead of finding mosquitoes and poison ivy...
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This Week in Movies: Shapeshifting Robot Edition
This Week in 1991: 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' Morphs Into a Hit Fortunately for us all, James Cameron was wrong. If the dire predictions in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (released 20 years ago this...
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This Week in Movies: Cells and Cages Edition
This Week in 1981: Snake Bites Big Apple in 'Escape From New York' "I thought you were dead." That's what people keep telling mercenary Snake Plissken throughout his adventures. It may also be what...
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This Week in Movie History: 'Boyz N the Hood' Explodes Off the Screen
Movie: 'Boyz N the Hood' Release Date: July 12, 1991 How It Got Made: John Singleton was still an undergrad at the University of Southern California when he persuaded Columbia Pictures to buy his...
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This Week in Movie History: 'Trainspotting' Smacks Moviegoers
Movie: 'Trainspotting' Release Date: July 19, 1996 How It Got Made: Reading Irvine Welsh's 1993 literary sensation about the highs and lows of a group of Scottish junkies, director Danny Boyle and...
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This Week in Movie History: 'Blow Out' Blows Into Theaters
Movie: 'Blow Out' Release Date: July 24, 1981 How It Got Made: That 'Blow Out' got made at all was pretty remarkable. Its 1960s and '70s-style political paranoia seemed out of place at the dawn of the...
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This Week in Movie History: 'The Omega Man' Takes on the World
Movie: 'The Omega Man' Release Date: August 1, 1971 How It Got Made: These days, it's usually Will Smith who gets called upon to save civilization. Forty years ago, it was Charlton Heston. When he...
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This Week in Movie History: 'She's Gotta Have It' Launches a Film Renaissance
Movie: 'She's Gotta Have It' Release Date: August 8, 1986 How It Got Made: It's hard to remember now how thoroughly white American cinema was 25 years ago. There were no black directors or...
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This Week in Movie History: 'A Place in the Sun' Lights Up Theaters
Movie: 'A Place in the Sun' Release Date: August 14, 1951 How It Got Made: 'A Place in the Sun' is at once one of cinema's great love stories and one of its great crime dramas, but getting it made was...
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This Week in Movie History: 'An American Werewolf in London' Transforms the...
Movie: 'An American Werewolf in London' Release Date: August 21, 1981 How It Got Made: John Landis' 'An American Werewolf in London' was just one of three big werewolf movies released in 1981, but it...
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This Week in Movie History: 'Body Heat' Sets Theaters Ablaze
Movie: 'Body Heat' Release Date: August 28, 1981 How It Got Made: It was such a good idea, it's no wonder no one tried it sooner: an old-fashioned femme-fatale film noir thriller, like they used to...
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This Month in Movie History: A September 2001 Timeline
For Hollywood, September 2001 started out like any other September, full of film festivals, dealmaking, and the release of Oscar-bait movies. Of course, like everything else in America, the movie...
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This Week in Movie History: 'Yojimbo' Slashes Across Cultures
Movie: 'Yojimbo' Release Date: September 13, 1961 How It Got Made: By the time Akira Kurosawa made 'Yojimbo,' he had already spent a decade as the Japanese director most admired in the West, thanks to...
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This Week in Movie History: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Changes Screen Acting...
Movie: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Release Date: September 18, 1951 How It Got Made: As a medium that originated in the late 1800s, film was still very much a Victorian art form well into the middle of...
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25 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Hustler'
Rack 'em! This week marks the 50th anniversary of 'The Hustler,' the landmark drama that cemented Paul Newman's stardom and gave him his signature rebellious antihero role, pool shark Fast Eddie...
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25 Things You May Not Know About 'The Evil Dead'
Every horror fan and gorehound worth his or her weight in red-tinted corn syrup has seen 'The Evil Dead,' the landmark low-budget horror classic that debuted 30 years ago this week (on October 15,...
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25 Things You May Not Know About 'West Side Story'
The film version of 'West Side Story' seems like it has always been part of our collective memories. The sounds and images from the street-gang update of 'Romeo and Juliet' have resonated with us down...
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25 Things You May Not Know About 'Donnie Darko'
Actually, there's probably a lot you don't know about 'Donnie Darko.' Like: What the hell happened? Is Donnie a time-traveling teen superhero/Christ figure who must sacrifice himself to save his loved...
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25 Things You May Not Know About 'Carrie'
Sure, 'Carrie' is a modern horror classic, one whose bloodbath-at-the-prom sequence and final shock from beyond the grave have been referenced and parodied so many times that you may feel like you've...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Blue Velvet'
'Blue Velvet' fans, lend an ear. You may think you know all there is to know about David Lynch's twisted classic -- which effectively launched the careers of Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Network'
All together now: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" That's the famous catchphrase uttered by "mad prophet of the airwaves" Howard Beale in 'Network,' a movie that, in the...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'The Prince and the Showgirl'
How much of the backstage drama depicted in the new Michelle Williams film 'My Week With Marilyn' -- which chronicles the tumultuous shoot of the 1957 Marilyn Monroe/Laurence Olivier romantic comedy...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Ocean's 11'
What happens in Vegas ... sometimes never stops happening. It has been exactly 10 years since 'Ocean's 11' opened (on December 7, 2001), but the movie remains ubiquitous on TV, as do its two smash...
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New Releases: 'The Sitter,' 'New Year's Eve,' 'I Melt With You,' 'Tinker...
It's December! And with temperatures dropping around the country, what better way to spend the second weekend of the month than by heading to a heated movie theater with a large bucket of warm popcorn...
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'Taps' at 30: Where Are They Now?
Back when 'Taps' debuted 30 years ago (on December 9, 1981), the venerable George C. Scott got top billing, even though he appears in very little of the film; the actual star of this drama of a group...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the...
It has been 10 years since the hobbits took over the planet. On December 19, 2001, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' opened and accomplished the impossible. It proved that, despite a...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Harold and Maude'
He was a depressed 20-year-old whose hobby was faking suicide in vain bids for his mother's attention. But then he met the world's oldest Manic Pixie Dream Girl and learned to enjoy life and risk...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Straw Dogs'
You'd never know from the way this past September's 'Straw Dogs' opened and closed with so little fanfare that it was a remake of a movie whose unflinching depiction of graphic violence created a...
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25 Things You Didn't Know About Exorcism Movies
Like body-swiping demons, exorcism movies simply refuse to go away. The latest one to take possession of the multiplex is 'The Devil Inside,' which premieres this Friday, and which is just one of...
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7 Reasons We're Excited About 'The Internship'
A lot of people are looking forward to seeing "The Internship" for a couple of key reasons: it's the first movie to reunite "Wedding Crashers" co-stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, and it has...
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Superman's Super Financial Feats Through the Ages (INFOGRAPHIC)
When high school buddies Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster handed off their flying character to DC Comics for approximately $100,000 in 1938, little did they know their alien would leap in a single bound to...
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'The Bling Ring': Living Vicariously Through Movie Characters
Sometimes it's pretty fun to live vicariously through the characters we see on the big screen, especially when those characters are young, pretty, spoiled, and living it up in the L.A. party scene,...
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