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By all accounts, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken is a rather brutal piece of cinema - which isn't exactly too surprising given the incredible challenges that faced World War II hero Louis Zamperini during his time in a Japanes...

The numbers for 2014 are in, and it was a notably bad year for theaters. People just aren't going out to the movies anymore, and the number of moviegoers has hit a record low in North America. There's no doubt that the m...

We've all dreamed of putting on the Iron Man suit and chatting with J.A.R.V.I.S. all day. But what if it's not all that the films crack it up to be? What if something goes horribly wrong? Well, one Iron Man fan decided t...

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp took to twitter just a few hours ago and posted some astonishing photos, pictures that show he was working on an Alien film! The photos show beautifully drawn/illustrated images that sh...

The head of the Film Bureau has hailed the strength of Chinese movies in the battle with Hollywood for market share

In a fun behind the scenes story that should interest any Middle-earth fans out there, it's been revealed that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was offered a role in one of The Hobbit films if he cooked Peter Jackson's 50th b...

The 44-year-old, a Golden Globe and Emmy winner for her work on TV, is now thought to be in serious contention for her first-ever Oscar nomination

Will it be a happy new year for certain films? Or will the momentum they enjoyed in 2014 fizzle now that we are in a different calendar year? These are the questions we are trying to answer as we head toward the all-impo...

Idina Menzel hit the Time Square stage during New York's massive New Year's Eve celebration to sing her hit song from Frozen, "Let It Go." Unfortunately, it was not her best performance and fans have been blasting her fl...

"Beverly Hillbillies" star Donna Douglas has died at 81. Let's check out some of her greatest moments.

In a recent interview, Mike Leigh bashed Quentin Tarantino's celluloid crusade as "bollocks." HitFix rounds up a series of viewpoints on the ongoing film vs. digital debate with a number of the industry's top cinematogra...

Chris Evans may only be Captain America when he is on screen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he just proved that the good-hearted superhero qualities he portrays through his character are also true to himself. Evan...

The Device should have been pretty awesome judging by the DVD cover. A young woman and her fiancé escort her sister to the cabin from their childhood to spread their mother's ashes. The sisters, who haven't talked in ye...

The Hollywood Reporter just shared the new ant-sized trailer for Peyton Reed’s “Ant-Man.” This is nothing much to write home about, since the trailer is decidedly small and unwatchable, but it’s a creative bit of...

We've been dying to see the first Ant-Man trailer, and the feeling only intensified after glimpsing the first piece of footage in that Marvel TV special way back when. Now, we have some good news! Our first look at it ha...

"I came here worried about him, and...he wanted me to put a smile on my face and wanted me to know it was OK"

Home Alone is one of those movies that I’m not quite sure how it’s supposed to be labeled as a “kids’ movie”. It’s full of violence, creepy characters, the potential for child homicide, and it has a spider, w...

Long ago, my honored predecessor and friend John Hartl (who's been reviewing movies for Seattle Times readers for 48 years) began a tradition of wrapping up the movie year with a list of "Dubious Achievements." Following...

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Just because DVD commentaries are going the way of dinosaurs doesn't mean the art of insight is extinct. Check out these mini-commentaries for the Oscar season's biggest movies.

A tie results in six nominees for best edited drama.

A "human-sized" version of the trailer is set to debut on television on Jan. 6