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Life is a Happy Song in Joyful ‘The Muppets’

Delightfully crafted and hilariously self-reverential, The Muppets is a little bundle of unadulterated joy at the movies that will satisfy audiences of all age. Kermit and his gang aim straight for the heart by creating a contagiously funny, moving and wonderful cinematic experience.

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Stanley Tucci, Chris Cooper Join Robert Redford’s “The Company You Keep”

Robert Redford is assembling an impressive team for his next directorial effort, already having Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Brit Marling, Julie Christie and Richard Jenkins on board. Now, Screen Daily reports that Stanley Tucci and Chris Cooper have joined the cast.

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Awesome Full Trailer for “The Muppets”

After three parody teaser trailers, Disney has finally debuted the first full trailer for The Muppets. Props to Disney’s marketing department, they really know what they are doing. While it doesn’t shed that much light on the story, the trailer makes it look like the real deal.

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Movie News Weekly Round-Up: October 18, 2010

The Weekly Movie News Round-up is an aggregation of news gathered from all across the movie industry released every weekend. Inside, discuss all the latest movie news, casting news, and trailers to your heart’s content! This week, is Mel Gibson returning to acting with The Hangover 2?

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Review: Ben Affleck Affirms Himself with”The Town”

Ben Affleck directorial debut, the critically acclaimed Gone Baby Gone, announced the arrival of a highly promising director. With his second directing effort, The Town, Affleck demonstrates that it was no fluke and that he is, indeed, a very passionate and talented director with great potential.

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Review: “Great Expectations” but Disappointing Results

An Americanized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved dark novel, Great Expectations is a romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Greatly simplified by focusing only on the essential characters and events, this film is a stylish contemporary version [...]

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Movie Review: Remember Me (2010)

Directed by Allen Coulter, Remember Me is a romantic drama starring Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Raven, Pierce Brosnan, and Chris Cooper. The film is set in New York towards the start of the new millennium, and tells the story of a young man named Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson). What follows is a story of loss, loneliness, love, and suffering that takes Tyler and those around him on a up-and-down roller coaster to a grand finale that hits you like a brick wall.

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Movie Review: Breach (2007)

Directed by Billy Ray, Breach is a docudrama based on the chain of events that lead to the arrest of spy Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who sold highly sensitive information to the Soviet Union over more than twenty years. Arrested in February of 2001, Hanssen was responsible for possibly the largest US intelligence breach [...]

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Movie Review: Married Life (2007)

Married Life directed by Ira Sachs, is a dark and witty comedy of manners with a big dash of psychological thriller. Set in 1949, the plot is about Harry Allen (the formidable Chris Cooper), an apparently successful businessman. See, Harry seems to have it all, successful career, nice house, sex-driven wife (sublime Patricia Clarkson), he is living THE life! Except poor Harry longs for true love and that is missing. In comes Kay Nesbitt (lovely Rachel McAdams), a young war widow with whom Harry has an affair.

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