Demme returns to the paranoid thriller with Line of Sight... John Lasseter digs into his studies for Monsters University... Don't go in that Abandoned Mine...

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Loki will not be the Big Bad... John Hurt will probably not be the Doctor for long... KUNG FU PANDA 3 seeks harmony with China... YouTube live video capture seeks no harmony with Google Chrome (you'll see, sorry)...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger announces his return for Terminator 5... Minions run amok in Despicable Me 2... Supernatural drama coming in Mary Loss of Soul...

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Pyro sets 100 year-old house on fire... Final Destination creator to adapt Ty Drago's The Undertakers... Brad Pitt has bad news for the combatants of World War Z...

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Zack Snyder digs shooting on location... Henry Cavill loves his super-suit... Michael Shannon really appreciates Henry Cavill... We look into the creation of the eagerly-awaited reboot of the Superman franchise.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug gets new elves and rampaging orcs... Steel yourself for more Man of Steel... Let's go looking for the Alien Uprising...

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Apes on horseback... Ultra-hot image of Theo James in Divergent... The Chinese show The Croods the door... Let's all ignore what Brett Ratner is doing...

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J.J. Abrams comes clean... Transformers 4 gets some new recruits... Apartment 1303 3D is available for occupancy...

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Filmmaker Bill Stone's task couldn't have been simpler: Document artist Chris Overing as he built a stone wall on a large estate in Quebec. In two months time, the director anticipated, he'd have an interesting rumination on an elaborate and obscure craft.

Michael Fassbender tries out his Magneto powers... Director James DeMonaco discusses The Purge... Trailer for Insidious Chapter 2 seeks to unsettle...

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For close to forty years, the New York-based studio Troma has been a perverse, gory thumb in the eye of all that's staid and safe in mainstream Hollywood. It's co-founder Lloyd Kaufman has built a fan-base by directing such twisted, low-budget epics...

Warners loses a Jason and gains a Chris (Nolan)... Owen Wilson's a turkey; Woody Harrelson's a hawk... Essential Archer item becomes real...

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Get a look at Superman's new look... Star Trek producer Brannon Braga gets all witchy... Damon Lindelof gets Left Behind... The Wizard of Oz goes deep...

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The BBC rescinds Matt Smith's medical license... The Marvel universe gets a companion... Chris Nolan tinkers with time... Brad Pitt courts his Muse...

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M. Night Shyamalan continues to be a very good director doing not-very-good movies. In the futuristic adventure After Earth, Will Smith -- who also came up with the story -- plays a literally fearless warrior who crash-lands with his son (actual son Jaden Smith) on an abandoned Earth grown wild...

2013 is turning out to be quite the break-out year for actress Tatiana Maslany: Not six months into the thing, she's already got several notable roles to her name. Of course, most of them are on the BBC America series Orphan Black,...

This, you see, is the eternal question for me: Am I a romantic or not? As a film journalist, I need to serve many masters -- drama, documentary, comedy, horror, etc. -- and since I tend to favor independent releases, 'cause that's...

Iron Man 3: Done it. Star Trek Into Darkness: Done it. Fast and Furious 6: Not really genre ('though we wish). The Hangover Part III: Uh, no. Genre or not, no thank you. That leaves... oh shoot, Epic, a CG animated fantasy...

Practically omnipresent and infinitely versatile, Malcolm McDowell has played, among others, a rebellious private school student, a futuristic sociopath, a degenerate emperor, Michael Myer's nemesis, and the killer of Captain Kirk. He has worked with directors that have included Stanley Kubrick, Paul...

Star Trek is back, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) is still flouting the rules, director J.J. Abrams is still dividing the fan base, but amazingly, inconceivably, there's no dissent within the Cinefantastique Online ranks this time: Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and I all...