Most Hollywood blockbusters don’t require A-list celebrities to succeed anymore. Sequels, superheroes and teenage book franchises seem to dominate the market these days, leaving folks like Tom Cruise to ponder whether “Jersey Shore” could have a better box office performance. Yet when it comes to opening action movies, Angelina Jolie is one of the few […]
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Cityscapes fold onto themselves. Hotel hallways tumble upside down. A son tries to make amends with his father by breaking into a snowbound fortress straight out of a James Bond movie. Behold the spectacle of “Inception,” a brainy puzzle-box of an adventure from writer/director Christopher Nolan. Underneath its blockbuster visuals, “Inception” is a surprisingly personal
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It isn’t often that Hollywood offers two movies on the same weekend where audiences are encouraged to root for the bad guys. Both the animated comedy “Despicable Me” and the sci-fi sequel/reboot “Predators” focus on dastardly villains, but only one enlists a trio of adorable children to break the cold-blooded exterior of our technologically-savvy antagonist.
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Good movies about strong women still exist outside the spineless brain-suck of “The Twilight Saga.” While Bella takes three movies to decide between a wolfman and a dead guy, audiences itching for quality storytelling can look no further than the “Millennium Trilogy” from the late Swedish author Stieg Larrson. All three books are available now,
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