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Cannes Review: Brilliant 'Behind the Candelabra' deserves biggest screen possible

Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:30 am · May 21st, 2013

Michael Douglas and Matt Damon award-worthy in Soderbergh’s witty Liberace biopic.

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Cannes Review: James Franco's 'As I Lay Dying' is a hopeless task, if not a hopeless film

Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:35 pm · May 20th, 2013

The actor-director gets all the best close-ups in his Faulkner adaptation.

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Seth MacFarlane will not host the 2014 Oscars

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:03 am · May 20th, 2013

Seth MacFarlane has officially dropped out of the Oscar hosting gig today, he revealed on Twitter. And he even took a bit of a shot at that critical thrashing in the process.

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Sony Classics looks forward to 'The Past'

Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:42 am · May 20th, 2013

The prestige distributor also handled Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation.’

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Cannes Review: 'Inside Llewyn Davis' finds the Coens singing softly in tune

Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:19 pm · May 18th, 2013

Oscar Isaac is a revelation in melancholy study of arrested artistry.

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Ben Affleck sends up 'Argo' and his Best Picture Oscar acceptance speech on SNL

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:00 pm · May 18th, 2013

You didn’t think “Argo” and its Oscar run was through with you yet, did you? Tonight on “Saturday Night Live,” last year’s golden boy Ben Affleck took up hosting duties for the fifth time in his career, bringing the 38th season of the show to a close and putting a big bow on the 2012-2013 Oscar season.

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'Star Trek' at the Oscars

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:37 am · May 18th, 2013

How has the franchise fared at the Academy Awards over the decades?

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Cannes Review: Benicio Del Toro clears his head (but not much else) in dreary 'Jimmy P'

Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · May 18th, 2013

Competition’s first outright dud is a major letdown from Arnaud Desplechin.

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Cannes Review: 'Stranger by the Lake' is a stylish new entry in the porn-noir genre

Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:42 pm · May 17th, 2013

Un Certain Regard entry sets pulses racing with surfeit of steamy gay action.

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Thomas Vinterberg to adapt 'Far from the Madding Crowd' with Carey Mulligan

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:03 pm · May 17th, 2013

A year ago at Cannes, Dogme 95 co-founding filmmaking Thomas Vinterberg was stirring up talk with his film “The Hunt.” This year’s fest brings news for his next.

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Tell us what you thought of 'Frances Ha'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:42 am · May 17th, 2013

Noah Baumbach’s latest heads out in limited release this weekend.

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Tell us what you thought of 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:10 am · May 17th, 2013

The wrath of a sequel lands on screens this weekend.

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Cannes Review: 'The Past' is an intimate but exacting breakdown of several separations

Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:49 am · May 17th, 2013

Asghar Farhadi’s follow-up to Oscar-winning ‘A Separation’ plays to his strengths.

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Ranking 30 years of 'Star Trek' at the movies

Posted by Josh Lasser · 7:33 pm · May 16th, 2013

How will “Star Trek Into Darkness” figure into the “Star Trek” legacy? Audiences will find out tomorrow, but for now, here’s a look at the best and worst of the franchise to date.

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'Crouching Tiger' sequel to be directed by 'The Matrix' and 'Kill Bill' choreographer Yuen Wo Ping

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:47 pm · May 16th, 2013

The Weinstein Company has announced today that production on “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny” will begin in March of 2014 in Asia. Yuen Wo Ping is set to direct after serving as a choreographer on the original film, which was directed by Ang Lee was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning four.

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