Channing Tatum plays a rookie secret service agent who must save the president (Jamie Foxx) when terrorists attack the White House. Some people in the press have described the film as "Die Hard in the White ...
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Pro: The magic trick of the movie is setting the viewer up for a Clint Eastwood film, but it's not his. It's Amy Adams's. And she's as good as ever, a tough girl raised by a baseball scout, surrounded by men
all her ...
Pro: First off, "Argo" will be adored by SAG and the Academy's acting branch because of the huge cast of character actors who get a chance to shine. The movie finds Affleck playing Tony Mendez, a real-...
Will Patrick Stewart play Professor Xavier once again?
Stewart played the wheelchair-bound telekinetic in the three X-Men films, while James McAvoy played a younger, more able-bodied Xavier in 2011's prequel &...
Release date: October 12
Why it's anticipated: Ben Affleck has already proven his worth as a star-turned-director with "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town," and the much-buzzed-about "Argo"...
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams
Screening at: Toronto
Why: Knightley and Wright reunite for the third time after the critically acclaimed co...
Lately Cronenberg's most loyal onscreen collaborator (though he skipped “Cosmopolis”), Mortensen remains the only one of his actors ever to secure a leading Oscar nod. When you consider the deliciously sur...
Directed by: Ben Affleck, USA World Premiere
When militants storm the U.S. embassy in 1979 Tehran, six Americans manage to slip away. Knowing it’s only a matter of time before they are found, a CIA “exfil...
Powered by the mid-week holiday, the long-awaited Sony reboot "The Amazing Spider-Man" is off to a solid, but not-record breaking, start.
On the Fourth of July holiday, Spidey swung to an impressive $23.4...
