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Observing mayhem and cannibalism, a boy trekking through wilderness with his father after surviving some unnamed holocaust asks, "Are we still the good guys?" This hipster question makes John Hillcoat's The Road much less credible and thought-provoking than Dakota Fanning in War of the Worlds asking, "Are we still alive?" Hillcoat, whose suspicious ...

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Related Topix: The Road, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies, Dakota Fanning

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Clover Herald

Meet the Volturi, Twilight's' vampire royalty

Don't get on their bad side. This powerful coven enforces the laws of the vampire world.

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Related Topix: Frost/Nixon, Underworld, Film Noir, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Michael Sheen, Mystery Movies, Sweeney Todd, Adventure, The Runaways, Pop/Rock

The New York Times

Word of the Day | resonant

The word resonant has appeared in 168 Times articles over the past year, including in a November 12, 2009 article by A. O. Scott called "Screen Memories" : Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is to sift through it for masters and masterpieces, kicking the tires to see what ...

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Action Movies, Munich, Thriller, History Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Nov 18, 2009

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'2012' offers pure special effect entertainment

As with family-friendly franchises, foreign horror movie remakes, and actor Ryan Reynolds, apocalyptic action flicks exist as pickable, profitable scabs in Hollywood.

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Related Topix: 2012, Short, Independence Day, Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Adventure

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Clover Herald

Dakota Fanning gets to play a villain in New Moon'

Dakota Fanning, at 15, has more credits than most of the young stars of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" combined.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Push, Coraline, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, I Am Sam, Dakota Fanning, The Runaways, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Phoenix

Review: 2012

Doomsday is good therapy. What does it matter that billions die if that brings a family together in one big hug? As anyone with access to a TV, supermarket tabloids, or the Internet knows, 2012 is the year the Mayan calendar runs out.

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Related Topix: 2012, Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Tom Cruise, Short, Independence Day, Drama Movies, Entertainment, Movies

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Ain't It Cool News

Sarah Connor CHRONICLESa Josh Friedman Teaming With Drew Barrymore...

ABC is close to ordering a new "Charlie's Angels" pilot from writer-producer Josh Friedman, who was Steven Spielberg's screenwriter on "War of the Worlds." Friedman is no stranger to hot girls with guns, having masterminded Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Drew Barrymore, who starred in and produced the two "Angels" movies ...

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Related Topix: Charlie's Angels, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Adventure, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Drew Barrymore, Science Fiction TV, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Nov 11, 2009

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Morgan Freeman to receive 2010 PSIFF Award

PALM SPRINGS, CA The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will present Morgan Freeman with the Career Achievement Award for Acting.

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Related Topix: Invictus, Western, Drama Movies, Unforgiven, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Crime Movies, The Dark Knight, Brubaker, Street Smart

Mon Nov 09, 2009

The Herald

Dakota Fanning: from cutting teeth to the Twilight zone

The teenage star tells Will Lawrence how she keeps her feet a ' and her purple shoes a ' on the ground.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, I Am Sam, Dakota Fanning, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Twilight, New Moon, Musical Movies

Wed Nov 04, 2009

NewsBlaze

The Sullivan Brothers Triumphant Return to Melbourne with 'I'll Believe You'

The Sullivan Brothers Triumphant Return to Melbourne with "I'll Believe You" At this year's Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival, there will be a very special homecoming.

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Related Topix: The Hangover, Patrick Warburton, There's Something About Mary, Comedy Movies, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, David Alan Basche, Brevard County, FL

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Dakota Fanning Crowned Homecoming Princess

Film star Dakota Fanning was crowned homecoming princess by her North Hollywood, Calif., high school, witnesses said.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, I Am Sam, Dakota Fanning, North-Hollywood, CA, Entertainment

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Movielady: the Halloween Hoax that Panicked America

Today is the anniversary of one of the most notorious broadcasts in Entertainment history, The Mercury Theater on the Air's radio presentation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds." Certainly, the story of the terrifying alien invasion is well-known to most people now.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Gothic, Orson Welles, New Jersey

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Union

'War of the Worlds' coming to Saint Joseph's Cultural Center

The cast of "War of the Worlds": Jack Meeks, Ronna Lee Joseph, Scott Ewing, Tim Murray, Sean Dooley, Lois Ewing, Bill Keogh, Maddie Fornier, and Walt Webb.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Nevada County, CA, Gothic, Orson Welles

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Inside Film

South Solitary begins shooting in Victoria

South Solitary begins shooting in Victoria [Mon 26/10/2009 12:31:26] Press release from Nix Co.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Love Serenade, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Miranda Otto

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Mikemcguff blog

KTRK's Dave Ward really has been in movies

In last week's post KTRK's Dave Ward vs the aliens? , we saw how it appears KTRK 13 anchor Dave Ward is in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds .

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Related Topix: My Sweet Charlie, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Tom Cruise

Thu Oct 22, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Run-DMC to make Broadway musical?

Following U2 and Green Day, the hip-hop pioneers are in talks to turn their story into blockbuster musical theatre Walk this way ... Are Run-DMC bringing their story to Broadway? Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Twenty years after they helped bring hip-hop to a wider audience, Run-DMC may be heading to Broadway.

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Related Topix: Rap, Run DMC, Dance, DMC, Valkyrie, Mission: Impossible, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Tom Cruise

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Asheville Citizen-Times

Mars comes calling in stage remake of radio classic

What is the magic behind the H.G. Wells Martian invasion classic 'War of the Worlds'? It's been 110 years since the original work was published, and since then, it's become famous as a legendary Halloween 1938 radio drama created by Orson Welles, a classic 1953 movie, a 1978 rock concept album and a 2005 Tom Cruise blockbuster.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television, Gothic, Orson Welles, Tom Cruise, Asheville Metro

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

ET: greatest alien movie ever

The 1982 movie classic, which starred a young Drew Barrymore, told the story of a friendly extra terrestrial stranded three million miles from his home planet.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Will Smith, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Alien³, Short, Aliens, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver

Tue Sep 29, 2009

BG News

Sci-fi genre still alive and kicking, one hundred years after inception

This past Monday was the birthday of H.G. Wells, 63 years after his death. For those unaware of the sheer brilliance of this British author, he is considered the granddaddy of sci-fi for penning "The War of the Worlds," "The Invisible Man," "The Time Machine and "The Island of Dr.

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Related Topix: Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Moon, Star Trek, Opinion

Sun Sep 27, 2009

Times Union

Light in night sky just NASA at work

In 2004, aliens descended on the region -- in a manner of speaking -- when Steven Spielberg took his production of "War of the Worlds" to Greene County.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Action Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Greene County, NY, Albany Metro, Albany, NY, Bethlehem, NY, Selkirk, NY

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