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American Sniper On Track to Become Highest-Grossing Film of 2014

  Only two months after its Christmas Day release, American Sniper, starring Jenkintown’s Bradley Cooper, is on track to become the highest-grossing film of 2014, overtaking the […]

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Warner Bros. Releases Creed Synopsis, Release Date

Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have released the full synopsis for their upcoming Rocky spinoff Creed, which is filming in Philadelphia as I type. […]

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2015 Academy Awards Roundup: And The Winner of Most Boring Awards Show Of The Year Goes To…

Neil Patrick Harris: I love you, but you were just dreadful last evening, despite your brief stint (no pun intended) in your underwear. Patricia Arquette […]

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Listen Up Philip Star Fluffy the Cat Needs Your Help

While it’s true many of Bryn Mawr native Alex Ross Perry’s films have been difficult to see outside the festival circuit, that’s been through no […]

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PHOTOS: Michael B. Jordan Joins Stallone on the Set of Creed in South Philly

HughE Dillon was camped out in Green Eggs Café this morning taking photos of the cast and crew of the upcoming Rocky spinoff Creed. They were across the street filming […]

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PHOTOS: Sylvester Stallone Filming Creed at Victor Cafe Today

Our own gentleman paparazzo HughE Dillon is in South Philly today on the set of the new Rocky spinoff Creed, which finds Rocky training the grandson […]

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8 Places to Watch the Oscars Live in Philly

This Sunday, February 22nd, Philadelphia is rolling out the red carpet for those of us not fortunate enough to attend the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. […]

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Grey Gardens Returning to the Big Screen This Spring

Get out your most fashionable revolutionary costume (made entirely of old turtlenecks), don a headscarf, and get to a local movie theater: The cult classic […]

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OUT in Theaters: If Only Fifty Shades of Grey Could Do Hardcore Like Kingsman

Spoiler Alert: This film ends in anal sex. No, I’m not talking about Fifty Shades of Grey (which by the way you only get to see […]

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5 Movies to Watch If You Love Fifty Shades of Grey

Like a rolling thundercloud, or massive, erotic tsunami, you knew EL James’s multi-million-selling novel would arrive in cinematic form before too long. Devotees of the […]

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Is Watching Fifty Shades of Grey With Your Friends … Weird?

I won’t be standing in line to see the premiere of the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey on Friday. Nor will I be […]

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WATCH: Bradley Cooper Trimmed Down With a Buzz Cut in New Trailer for Aloha

The trailer for Bradley Cooper’s next film—Cameron Crowe’s Aloha—was released this morning. It find the American Sniper star trimmed down with a buzz cut and […]

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Secret Cinema Returning Following Founder’s Bike Accident

Secret Cinema, Philly’s gem of an underground screening series dedicated to showing rare and classic films in 16mm on a giant screen—has been on hiatus since last […]

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Is the Roxy Philly’s Best-Kept Movie Secret?

You may not have noticed, but the Roxy has become a pretty cool place to do movies in Center City. Really. After years as a […]

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5 Best New Movies on Netflix Instant: Gems From Shailene Woodley, Kirsten Dunst and—Believe It or Not—Nicolas Cage

The Brothers Bloom (2008) Between making the shatteringly brilliant high-school noir Brick (2005), and the perplexingly dense Looper (2012), writer/director Rian Johnson made this twisty big-con […]