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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2012, Day Six: Alain Resnais does his Prairie Home Companion, and amateur sleuths comb obsessively through The Shining. 

  At the festival's midway point, French New Wave stalwart Alain Resnais reflects on his craft and conspiracy theorists reflect on Stanley Kubrick's craft. 

  May 22, 2012 | 9:40am -

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  Newswire Jorma Taccone is pretty sure there will be a MacGruber 2

  Yeah.

  May 21, 2012 | 6:01pm -

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  Newswire Don't worry, Wes Anderson's next movie will have Owen Wilson

  Just let Moonrise Kingdom go.

  May 21, 2012 | 4:59pm -

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  Newswire Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are making a buddy cop movie

  Bullock is "high-strung," McCarthy is "unconventional." They're the original odd couple!

  May 21, 2012 | 4:37pm -

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  Newswire Robert De Niro to star in another gangster movie that makes light of his starring in gangster movies

  It's even based on a book called Badfellas.

  May 21, 2012 | 1:03pm -

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  Newswire Duncan Jones is making a movie about James Bond creator Ian Fleming

  All the real-life spy stuff that went into the fake spy stuff.

  May 21, 2012 | 11:34am -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Five: Get out your Haneke-chiefs, we have a Palme D'Or favorite

  Day Five brings a clear Palme D'Or frontrunner and an intriguing WTF from Abbas Kiarostami. 

  May 21, 2012 | 11:04am -

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  Newswire Nick Stahl is no longer missing and is going to rehab

  Call off the search.

  May 21, 2012 | 10:17am -

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  Newswire Weekend Box Office: Audiences force catchphrase out of Battleship

  From the comments section on the Battleship review last week: “Does anyone say ‘You sunk my battleship?’” “Yes.

  May 21, 2012 | 10:08am -

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  Inventory The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing 

  The A.V. Club's weekly list. 

  May 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Four: Bootleggers, transsexuals and falsely accused pedophiles, oh my!

  New films from John (The Proposition) Hillcoat, Thomas (The Celebration) Vinterberg, and Xavier (Heartbeats) Dolan on Day 4 at Cannes. 

  May 20, 2012 | 1:05pm -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Three: Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone tackles reality TV and past Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu gets cloistered

  Three recent Cannes heavy-hitters step back into the box: Matteo (Gomorrah) Garrone, Cristian (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days) Mungiu, and Apichatpong (Uncle Boonmee) Weerasethakul.

  May 19, 2012 | 12:30pm -

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  Newswire Jackie Chan is going to stop making action movies and be the "Asian Robert De Niro"

  He needs the rest.

  May 18, 2012 | 4:34pm -

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  Newswire There can be only one to star in that Highlander remake, and apparently it's Ryan Reynolds

  The most singular man in the universe, played by its most ubiquitous.

  May 18, 2012 | 3:41pm -

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  Newswire The Avengers continues to take your money, their money, all the money

  Paper stacks, assemble.

  May 18, 2012 | 1:49pm -

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  Newswire Anthony Bourdain's crime novel is going to be a movie

  Bone In The Throat, soon choking a theater near you.

  May 18, 2012 | 1:28pm -

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  Newswire Alex Proyas to give Egypt its very own Clash Of The Titans, basically

  It's called Gods Of Egypt.

  May 18, 2012 | 11:42am -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Two: The latest from the director of A Prophet, plus Michel Gondry gets on the bus

  A day that begins with Marion Cotillard loses her legs to an orca and ends with Michel Gondry on a schoolbus ride is a very strange day indeed. 

  May 18, 2012 | 11:29am -

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  Newswire Blade Runner screenwriter returns for sequel, which is now officially a sequel

  Time to make the Replicants.

  May 18, 2012 | 10:15am -

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  Memory Wipe Can the comeback kids of The Mighty Ducks overcome years of ironic appreciation?

  You can’t quack your way out of every deficit.

  May 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Morgan Freeman joins Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas' old man bachelor party in Last Vegas

  Wanted: at least one more old guy.

  May 17, 2012 | 4:46pm -

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  Newswire Idiocracy's Brawndo is now available in a drinking fountain, with electrolytes

  Instead of water, like from out the toilet.

  May 17, 2012 | 4:02pm -

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  Newswire Sin City 2 has a release date and poster and everything

  So it's really happening then.

  May 17, 2012 | 3:27pm -

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  Newswire Larry David to star in improvised film that is not a Curb Your Enthusiasm movie, but also basically is

  It's got all the Curb writers and it's improvised, so you see what we're getting at.

  May 17, 2012 | 1:23pm -

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  Newswire Red Bull will give Oliver Twist its "3-D parkour action movie" wings

  Throw away your book, then do a handspring over it.

  May 17, 2012 | 12:37pm -

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  Primer A guide to Japan’s Studio Ghibli, home of Totoro and Spirited Away 

  A discussion of the themes and films of the studio behind many beautiful, challenging animated films. 

  May 17, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire Perennial basic cable favorite Ever After to become a Broadway musical

  Proving once again that the entertainment industry is loath to take a chance on something new when something passable already exists.

  May 17, 2012 | 10:30am -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day One: Wes Anderson kicks off the festival in enchanting form

  Wes Anderson's story of first love graces the festival with deadpan laughs and bracing melancholy.

  May 17, 2012 | 9:04am -

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  Movie Review What To Expect When You’re Expecting 

  A star-filled ensemble ovulates in harmony in this pregnancy-themed Love Actually.  

  May 17, 2012 | 12:09am -

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  Movie Review Battleship 

  Peter Berg's long-awaited, if not exactly anticipated, board-game adaptation makes a big, noisy splash.

  May 17, 2012 | 12:08am -