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‘The Great Gatsby’ Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Opens May 10! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!

Posted: April 29, 2013 at 7:02 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pass for two! From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The filmmaker will create his own distinctive visual interpretation of the classic story, bringing the period to life in a way that has never been […]

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‘The Great Gatsby’ HD Trailer Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 11:07 am   /   Local, Movie Trailers

How do you make possibly the greatest American novel into a film? Easy you grab a director who has a knack for visuals, a cast that is rock solid in just about everything, and you throw a gigantic budget at it. There are so many things that could go wrong with a film adaptation like […]

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Rumor Mill: Josh Hutcherson Locked in to Play Peter Parker in “Spider-Man”

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 12:44 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Back in February the internet was alight with rumors that Percy Jackson star, Logan Lerman, was set to play Peter Parker in Sony’s reboot of the Spider-man franchise. (Read the article here.)  The rumors were proved to be false, and instead it turned out that the studio had just had a few talks with him […]

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“Spider-Man” Casting Rumors False, No Logan Lerman

Posted: March 5, 2010 at 1:58 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Ever since the announcement back in January that Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire would not be back webslinging, the internet has obsessed over who would play the next wisecracking spectacular Spider-man. All kinds of names have been thrown around such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Zac Efron. None has gained more traction than Percy Jackon […]

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Tobey Maguire Playing Bobby Fischer?

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 12:12 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Maguire might have just lost a franchise character in Spider-man, but it looks like he might be playing famous chess icon, Bobby Fischer,  in the film Pawn Sacrifice. Pawn Sacrifice follows Bobby Fischer who has to face the Russian chess champion, Boris Spassky,  in 1972, in a game filled with Cold War overtones. Basically think […]

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The Short List for “Captain America” Casting

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 3:17 pm   /   Local, Movie News, Opinion

Since production on the film starts in a couple months, Marvel is narrowing down its choices for the title role in the Captain America  film. You’ll be surprised at who people are reporting are testing for the roll.  Which of these lucky men are going to play the All American Hero, Steve Rogers? 1. John […]

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Golden Globe Predictions 2010 – Film

Posted: January 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm   /   Local, Movie News, Opinion

Here we are, a day before the second biggest award show of the movie season. Every year the Hollywood Foreign Press nominate people in the arts of film and television, and every year someone gets angry at the lack of nominations or the fact that the “wrong” person won. I like the Golden Globes because […]

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Brothers – Movie Review

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal play brothers in the aptly titled new film Brothers. They are, respectively, Sam and Tommy Cahill. The brothers, as cinematic siblings tend to be, are polar opposites. Sam is an upstanding overachieving military man with a wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and two daughters. Tommy is an ex-con fresh out of […]

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Brothers

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 5:25 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

If you are going to see “Brothers” because you want to see a movie full of happiness around the holidays, you are looking in the wrong place. With that being said, the film is one which is full of actuality and truthfulness. The movie tells the story of more things that are going on in […]

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Adam Shankman directing ‘Rock of Ages’

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 2:47 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Adam Shankman is a busy guy these days. He’s now one of the weekly judges on the hit reality competition So You Think You Can Dance. His in development credits on IMDB are a bit over the top. I’m not sure how I feel about his directing ability. He’s never made a film that I […]

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