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Movie Reviews: 'Nitro Circus: The Movie' and 'Meet the Fokkens' New York Daily News Movie Reviews: 'Nitro Circus: The Movie' and 'Meet the Fokkens'. Two documentaries: A 3D ... Even if you appreciate the sight of grown men acting like idiots, the film's repetitive pacing and self-congratulatory air start to feel exhausting. It's a ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Movie reviews: 'Goats,' 'Out of the Clear Blue Sky,' 'Supercapitalist,' 'This ... New York Daily News This staid, static drama sounds like the title of an academic book, but stars Linus Roache ("Batman Begins") as an ambitious, hyperanalytical New York hedge-fund trader who loses his ethical moorings amidst a shady deal in Hong Kong. Director Simon Yin ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

The Campaign RollingStone.com Is it too much to expect the broad, commercial jokefest that is The Campaign to be funny and take-no-prisoners smart? Come on. Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are savvy and sharp-witted – actors masquerading as clowns. Who better in an election year ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

The Bourne Legacy RollingStone.com When are solid action, good actors and only a semiidiotic spy plot not good enough for summer-movie escapism? When they stand in a long shadow, that's when. And The Bourne Legacy is dwarfed by the three smash Bourne movies (one from director Doug ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Hope Springs RollingStone.com Young love is replaced by the AARP version in Hope Springs, a risky proposition in age-phobic Hollywood despite the incomparable presence of Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. Hope Springs is a treat for thirtysomethings, and by that I mean couples ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Movie Reviews The Campaign Contactmusic.com Kyle Smith, the politically conservative film critic for the New York Post lets loose a torrent of zingers at The Campaign , starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, concluding with the unkindest jibe of all "Put it this way," he writes, "Jimmy ... See all stories on this topic » Contactmusic.com

'Killer': Trailer-trash film based on a foul play Boston Herald The second collaboration between award-winning Oklahoma-born playright Tracy Letts and legendary director William Friedkin ("The French Connection," "The Exorcist"), the -NC-17 rated "Killer Joe" is a Southern Gothic pulp-noir freak show. The film, a ... See all stories on this topic »

List of Bestsellers For The Week

NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of August 9, 2012 NPR ... sole survivor when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II. He faced thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. By the author of ... See all stories on this topic »

The DC area's bestsellers Washington Post (blog) World War II has quite a showing on this week's bestsellers list.Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" continues on the list, and is joined by two other hardbacks, one a narrative of D-Day spies by Ben Macintyre and Antony Beevor's new history of the war. See all stories on this topic »

"Gone Girl" tops US bestseller fiction list Reuters Thu Aug 9, 2012 2:01pm EDT. NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) - "Gone Girl" climbed back to the top of Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday after slipping to third place last week. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain ... See all stories on this topic »

Bestsellers: You go, 'Gone Girl'! Newsday Published: August 10, 2012 11:05 AM. Book Hampton in East Hampton. Photo credit: Newsday photo / Ana P. Gutierrez | A selection of books at BookHampton in East Hampton. Publishers Weekly's list of national bestsellers for the week ending Aug. See all stories on this topic » Newsday

UK Pop Charts for Week Ending August 18, 2012 About - News & Issues Topping the bestsellers list this week is Talk That Talk by Rihanna which vaults 7-1 in a rather curious out of nowhere move, regaining the Number One position it last held on the chart of December 3rd last year in its first week on release. Back then ... See all stories on this topic »

Best-sellers Chicago Tribune HARDCOVER FICTION, Last week. 1. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn ( Crown, $25). Nick is ... "Black List: A Thriller" by Brad Thor (Atria, $27.99). Scot Harvath has been put on a secretive hit list and must evade deadly attacks while trying to stop a ... See all stories on this topic »

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List Riverfront Times (blog) At numbers 5 and 6 on this week's local bestseller list are debut novels by two local authors: The Basement Quilt, the first volume in a projected series by Ann M. Hazelwood, a writer and quilter from St. Charles; and I'm No P.I., a mystery that mixes ... See all stories on this topic » Riverfront Times (blog)

The top 100 bestselling books of all time: how does Fifty Shades of Grey compare? The Guardian (blog) The book has remained in the top slot in the UK bestseller lists for the 16th week running. The second and third books, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, are also selling fast, with UK sales of 3.6m and 3.2m respectively. Combined UK sales ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Graphic Books Best Sellers: Sex, Violence and Intrigue in 'Scalped' New York Times (blog) Graphic Books Best Sellers: Sex, Violence and Intrigue in 'Scalped'. By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES. At No. 4 on the softcover list this week is Volume Nine of "Scalped," written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by R.M. Guera. The series is about South Dakota's ... See all stories on this topic »

List of Top Movies For The Week

The List: Top shark films Washington Times Don't go into the water! It's the 25th anniversary of Shark Week. The Discovery Channel's Shark Week 25 kicks off Aug. 12. If you can't get enough of sharks, check out some of the films in this week's List of the top 15 shark movies. Remember, stay out ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

The 'Greatest Films Ever' List Includes Nothing From the Past 40 Years? Good The Atlantic The recent unveiling of Sight & Sound's 2012 list of the Top 10 Greatest Movies of all Time brings with it the inevitable chatter that accompanies most lists taking authoritative stabs at qualifying the best of, well, anything. Cinephiles scan for ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Marvin Hamlisch: His three best movie ballads Washington Post (blog) Weekend update: Big-movie Friday. The kids are out of camp but have a few weeks before .... The piece of music for which Hamlisch is best known is also one of the great movie love songs of all time. It's difficult to strip away all the contexts in ... See all stories on this topic »

Best Movie Ever?: "Rear Window" AfterElton.com This movie gets it. And it's a rightful nominee for "Best Movie Ever" not just because it has ranked twice within the Top 50 of the American Film Institutes "100 Greatest Films," but because of the following five sacred attributes. You don't need ... See all stories on this topic » AfterElton.com

Top 50 Movies of All Time List Only Includes 6 Movies Made After 1980 PolicyMic Earlier this week, the Sight & Sound Institute released it's 2012 list of the greatest films of all time. Based on a poll of prominent critics, academics, and other members of the film industry, the list has been updated every 10 years since 1952. This ... See all stories on this topic » PolicyMic

Alternate Takes 08.11.12: Top 10 Batman Movie Villains 411mania.com Last week, over 1000 votes came in to determine who Batman's greatest movie villain was. I am sure there will be a number of comments below that call me an idiot for the choices, even though they were voted on by you, the readers. I am sure the same ... See all stories on this topic »

How to Best Enjoy the Perseid Meteor Shower this Weekend SF Weekly (blog) Blogs. Entire Site; Articles & Blogs; Restaurants; Places; Events; Music; Images; Ads; Bars; Best Of; Movies ... For the best visibility, go high: Mount Diablo, Sonoma, the Santa Cruz Mountains, or the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton are ideal ... See all stories on this topic »

COLUMN: Best sports movies ever made Walton Tribune My second favorite sports movie is "The Best of Times," starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as former high school football players who put together an alumni game for completely different reasons. Williams' character wants to shed the goat image ... See all st

List of Top Movies For The Week

Best-Movie Poll Shocker: Todd McCarthy's Take on 'Vertigo's' Dethroning of ... Hollywood Reporter Although he obviously couldn't dictate the results, it was obvious to many of us who have been involved in the process for a decade or more that Sight & Sound editor Nick James was determined to knock Citizen Kane from its throne atop the British magazine's once-a-decade Best Films of All Time poll, a position the 1941 film had maintained since it first cracked the list in 1962. ... I'll save a rundown of my own contributions to the Sight & Sound poll until the individual critics' lists are published in a few weeks. But I will ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

'Vertigo' Ousts 'Citizen Kane' on Sight & Sound's Top Films List ABC News (blog) Alfred Hitchcock fans rejoice: "Vertigo," which is widely considered the filmmaker's masterpiece, has come out on top of Sight & Sound magazine's list of the top 50 greatest films of all time. Hitchcock's 1958 dark psychological thriller, which focuses on an ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News (blog)

Ebert: "Vertigo" deserves best film selection Chicago Sun-Times Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" has been dethroned from the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time, replaced by Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." It's not as if nobody saw this coming. ... But let's remember that all movie lists, even this most-respected one, are ultimately meaningless. Their tangible value is to provide movie ... It is a delicious irony that Ozu's "Tokyo Story" is in third place, in the very week it disappeared from IMDb's Top 250 after that site tweaked its rules. Jean Renoir made many great films, but "La ... See all stories on this topic »

Read New All-Time Top 10 Lists From Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis ... Indie Wire (blog) The big talk of the week has been Sight & Sound's once-every-decade greatest films of all time list as determined by critics from around the world. However, the publication also take the temperature from film directors, asking for greatest lists from 358 ... See all stories on this topic »

Sight & Sound Directors' Lists: Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino & More Huffington Post Sight & Sound caused quite a stir in the film community this week when the magazine's list of the greatest movies ever -- as voted on by a panel of 846 international critics -- was published, and "Citizen Kane," the list's top film since 1962, was dethroned in ... See all stories on this topic »

Why I Can't Resist Mocking and Defiling Sight & Sound's "Greatest Films of All ... Slate Magazine The furor over the release of the British film magazine Sight & Sound's once-per-decade list of "The Greatest Films of All Time" (OK, "furor" in the admittedly dollhouse-scale world of professional film criticism) left me shrugging. Yes, Vertigo displaced Citizen Kane from the No. 1 spot it had held for the past five decades, but that qualifies as an ... collective list-making involves compromise, strategy, and a realistic assessment of one's options. Go ahead and submit Weekend at Bernie's at the No. 1 spot on your ballot: ... See all stories on this topic » Slate Magazine

'Vertigo' tops list as the best movie ever San Antonio Express Jimmy Stewart, left, and Kim Novak in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 "Vertigo," which takes the top spot in the list of top 10 greatest movies. Photo: Paramount Pictures / PARAMOUNT Pictures. Jimmy Stewart, left, and Kim Novak in a scene from Alfred. See all stories on this topic »

Why Only One Female Director Made Sight & Sound's Greatest Films List Slate Magazine (blog) Every 10 years since 1952, the British film magazine Sight & Sound polls a large pool of critics on what they believe are the greatest films of all time. The magazine touts the pure rankings—this year, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ousted Orson Welles' Citizen ...

List of Bestsellers For The Week

The DC-area's bestsellers Washington Post (blog) The D.C.-area's bestsellers. By Timothy R. Smith. Ahhh, just like the '90s: Danielle Steel makes the list twice this week. Rebecca Skloot continues her run in the nonfiction paperbacks chart with the compulsively readable "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" ... See all stories on this topic »

Ebook Bestsellers Breakdown: Apple gives books a boost paidContent.org This weekly feature examines certain ebooks' paths to bestseller-dom, and highlights bestselling titles on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists that are selling more copies in digital than in print. Featured this week: R.L. Mathewson's "Playing for ... See all stories on this topic » paidContent.org

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List Riverfront Times (blog) You evidently agreed: Not Working makes its debut on this week's bestseller list at number nine. Also on the list this week (again) is Gillian Flynn's Missouri-set and highly-addictive thriller Gone Girl and Fifty Shades of Grey, also still managing to thrill. See all stories on this topic » Riverfront Times (blog)

"Friends Forever" tops US bestseller list Reuters India ... "Friends Forever" jumped to the top of Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week. 1. See all stories on this topic »

Four self-published authors on New York Times ebook bestseller list The Guardian Self-published ebook authors are landing on the New York Times bestseller list in a big way [and] lightning struck multiple times this week," said Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords – which worked with all four of the authors to publish or distribute their ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton's New Book THE CORRUPTION ... MarketWatch (press release) Fitton's book, released on July 24, 2012, has hit Number 1 on BookScan's nonfiction hardcover list for the week ending July 29), while debuting at #6 on The New York Times Best Sellers Nonfiction Hardcover List (to be published on August 12). The book was ... See all stories on this topic »

Graphic Books Best Sellers: Parker Plans His Biggest Heist New York Times (blog) Graphic Books Best Sellers: Parker Plans His Biggest Heist. By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES. "Parker: The Score," an adaptation of a Richard Stark novel by the cartoonist Darwyn Cooke, is new to the graphic books hardcover best-seller list this week at No. 7. See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

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Total Recall movie reviews: leave a classic alone Baltimore Sun I had low expectations for the remake of"Total Recall,"one of my favorite movies. And it appears that they have been met. The movies are based on the great Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." Dick was asci-fi master, ... See all stories on this topic »

Celeste and Jesse Forever RollingStone.com Childhood sweethearts Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) call it quits after six years of marriage. Back off, I'm not spoiling the ending. That's how this breath of fresh comic air begins. Celeste is on a career high, spotting hot trends for an L.A. ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Movie Reviews: 'You've Been Trumped' and 'Mosquita y Mari' New York Daily News Movie Reviews: 'You've Been Trumped' and 'Mosquita y Mari'. A documentary on a terrific subject given frustratingly amateur treatment and a gem of a coming-of-age film. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Thursday, August 2, 2012, 2:16 PM. Print · Print; Comment ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Review: Total Recall (2012) Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) People's Critic: Film Reviews. This blog is my look at movies, pop culture and entertainment. It's a blog by the people that speaks for the people who love entertainment. I love to write and to share my opinion. Hope you enjoy what I have to say. « Review: Ai Weiwei: Never ... Total Recall will always be best remembered as the movie with the three boob'd hooker. ... There are moments in Recall when the film is entreating, but most of the movie feels like poor character development stitched together with action scenes. See all stories on this topic » Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Total Recall RollingStone.com This futuristic fiasco, a wretched remake of 1990's Total Recall, can't begin to erase memories of director Paul Verhoeven's kinky, hot-wired original in which Arnold Schwarzenegger memorably shot movie wife Sharon Stone and bitchslapped her with ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Zero Dark Thirty Entertainment Weekly Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the decadelong hunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden may be the year's most controversial film, already generating partisan critiques. In their first interviews about the secrecy-shrouded project, Bigelow and screenwriter ... See all stories on this topic » Entertainment Weekly

Reviews: Made-in-Atlanta movie "The Watch" is hard to watch Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) But reviews for the movie, filmed in metro Atlanta, indicate "The Watch" is a movie you won't want to watch. "(D)irector ... "Rote, crass and worst of all, totally laugh-free," observed a Gatehouse News Service review titled "The Watch" is Unwatchable." ..... Two great e-books, from the Atlanta experts. • The Atlanta 50: What to See and Do, our inside scoop on Atlanta's vibrant cultural and leisure scene, including tips on parking, where you should go and best times to avoid big crowds. Order e-book guide today. PLUS: ... See all stories on this topic »

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Blake Lively's Gucci commercial oozes Hollywood glamour New York Daily News In her first commercial as the new face of Gucci's fragrance, Gucci Première, the "Gossip Girl" actress exudes Hollywood glamour in a body-hugging sparkly gold gown. The commercial, shot by "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn, shows Lively in two ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

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Marilyn Monroe remains strong celebrity brand, moneymaker even 50 years after ... Washington Post LOS ANGELES — There is a career after death, at least if while alive you wielded star power like Marilyn Monroe. The bombshell actress continues to be a successful celebrity brand even 50 years after she died on Aug. 5, 1962, with a new digital ... See all stories on this topic »

A Severed Head and a 'Suspicious' Ex Daily Beast In January, a severed head, hands and feet were found on a wooded trail near the famed "Hollywood" sign, just a short distance from the home of star couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. After the remains of 66-year-old Hervey Medellin were discovered ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

Hollywood hits bull's eye for archery Chicago Tribune (Suhaib Salem Reuters, REUTERS). LONDON (Reuters) - All the way from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner, Hollywood has always been all a-quiver about Robin Hood and his trusty bow and arrow. Now the heroine of a science fiction romp has made archery a ... See all stories on this topic »

Anxiety Over Rover's Hollywood-Style Mars Landing ABC News Seven minutes of terror. It sounds like a Hollywood thriller, but the phrase describes the anxiety NASA is expecting as its car-sized robotic rover tries a tricky landing on Mars late Sunday. Skimming the top of the Martian atmosphere at 13000 mph, the ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood endorses Romney The Hill (blog) The Hollywood icon said the country needed a system where "there's a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as to who's paying taxes and who isn't," a likely reference to Democrats who have called for the wealthiest of Americans to pay ... See all stories on this topic »

Four convicted in North Hollywood text-message killing Los Angeles Times Zareh Manjikian and Vahagn Jurian, both 25, were found guilty Friday of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit assault in the shooting death of 19-year-old Gombert "Mike" Yepremyan in North Hollywood. Two other defendants, Hovik Dzhuryan, 20, ... See all stories on this topic »

Hollywood Star Tours Take Over LA As The Business Of Celebrity Home Gazing ... Huffington Post This story comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter and first appeared in the August 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. By Daniel Miller. A recent explosion of celebrity-seekers has gawking run amok as looky-loos ring the front door of ... See all stories on this topic »

Carl Icahn exits Hollywood, sells stake in MGM Los Angeles Times Carl Icahn, who only a year ago hoped to combine two studios and create an entertainment empire, has retreated from Hollywood by selling his stake in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The billionaire investor has quietly sold his approximately 25% stake in MGM, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Colin Farrell Eyes Return to Hollywood A-List With 'Total Recall' Reboot Daily Beast That plotline serves as a convenient metaphor for what Farrell now faces in returning to the type of big-budget blockbuster that established him on Hollywood's A-list more than a decade ago. It's been six years since multiplex audiences have seen the ... See all stories on this topic »