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33 Unforgettable Disaster Movies
There's very little that Hollywood likes more than to take a cast of expensive actors, place them in a lavishly-produced set, and then blow everything up. The resulting mix of all-star casting and...
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Saying Farewell to Stephen Colbert, Craig Ferguson, and David Letterman's...
We must not be treating our late-night talk show hosts very well. To lose both Stephen Colbert (or at least the "Stephen Colbert" he plays on "The Colbert Report") and "The Late Late Show"'s Craig...
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Oscars 2015: How Will the Holiday Box Office Affect the Awards?
The Oscars like to pretend they are entirely about merit, not commerce. They are not, after all, the People's Choice Awards, which can be predicted from box office earnings. Indeed, sometimes a movie...
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The 30 Best Movie Sequels Ever Made
As Mark Harris points out in a recent Grantland essay, sequels are no longer merely a regrettable feature of the way Hollywood operates, they're pretty much the entire business model. We're supposed...
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The 24 Most Important Special Effects Movies Ever Made
The release of "Avatar" five years ago this month (on December 18, 2009) once again put the lie to Jean-Luc Godard's adage that cinema is truth 24 times a second. In fact, all of cinema is a lie, a...
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Christmas Gift Ideas for Our Favorite TV Characters
They've given you the gift of entertainment all year long. Don't you think your favorite TV characters deserve a gift at Christmastime? Granted, being fictional makes them hard to shop for. Still,...
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Oscars 2015: Five Myths About the Academy Vote
It's crunch time for Academy Awards voters. Balloting for Oscar nominations begins in earnest on December 29 and runs until January 8, with the actual list of nominees announced a week later....
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New Year's Resolutions for TV Characters
Smart people behaving foolishly. That seems to be the essence of scripted TV these days, as characters we've come to admire for their savvy get themselves into terrible trouble because they make...
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Oscars 2015: Let the Mudslinging Begin
It was inevitable, with so many inspired-by-a-true-story films in the Oscar race, that there would be grumbling about the inaccuracies of various awards-contending movies. This year, however, all those...
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Golden Globes 2015: The 12 Things You're Most Likely to See at This Year's...
A month from now, are you even going to remember who won the Golden Globes? And should you? After all, it's not like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the little group of entertainment...
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Watchers on the Wall: 'Game of Thrones' and the Crumbling Barrier Between TV...
There's surely no better place than an IMAX screen to watch a story about a 700-foot-high wall. But the announcement this week that the two most recent "Game of Thrones" episodes (the epic ice battle...
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Golden Globes 2015: The 15 Best and Worst Moments
Was there a certain zip and verve missing from the Golden Globes this year? Maybe it was the relative lack of surprises among the winners selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, or maybe...
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Oscars 2015: It's All About the Little Things
Much will be made of the victories at Sunday night's Golden Globes and the impact they'll have on the Oscar race, but the truth is, they'll barely have any. For Academy members, voting on the Oscar...
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Oscars 2015: Predicting the Nominations
This year's Oscar race has been a thorny one to predict. Despite the emergence early on of a few front-runners in each category -- overall, the race has been dominated by "Boyhood" and "Birdman," with...
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Oscar Nominations 2015: Snubs and Surprises
Everything is not awesome. The Oscar nominations are always full of snubs and surprises, but the one that's probably causing the most gasping and eyebrow-raising after Thursday morning's announcement...
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Woody Allen's Amazon Series: Six Burning Questions
Woody Allen used to joke that television was the result of how Los Angeles disposes of its trash, but now he's in the business himself. There's a lot that's fascinating, surprising, confusing, even...
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Oscars 2015: The Reasons for the Black Shutout Are More Complicated Than You...
Well, with last Thursday's announcement of the Oscar nominations, the sometimes ratings-challenged Academy Awards got all the traditional media and online attention they could have wished for. Too bad...
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The 31 Best Erotic Thrillers Ever Made
Who says the erotic thriller is dead? Maybe it's just been lying in wait. The heyday of the genre was the late '80s and early '90s, when erotic-thriller mainstays like actor Michael Douglas,...
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The 17 Best and Worst TV Presidents
The president of the United States used to be such a lofty figure, so far removed from the fantasy life of the American people, that he (or she) was seldom portrayed as a recurring character on TV...
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13 Reasons Why the SAG Awards Should Be Your Favorite Awards Show
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing this Sunday, January 25, aren't as high-profile as some of the other awards shows clamoring for your attention throughout January and February. Indeed, awards...
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