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American Sniper Earned $90.2 Million at the Box Office This Weekend

Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, starring Jenkintown native Bradley Cooper as prolific Navy SEAL sharp-shooter Chris Kyle, earned a whopping $90.2 million at the weekend box office, and it’s […]

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4 Movies to Watch If You Love American Sniper, and an Alternative If You Don’t

Academy Award Best Picture nominee American Sniper, starring Jenkintown native (and Best Actor nominee) Bradley Cooper, officially opens nationwide this weekend. The film is projected […]

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Youth Can See Selma for Free This Weekend at Pearl Theatre

There are several campaigns aimed at getting youth across the nation out to see Selma, Ava DuVernay’s film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts […]

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12 Best New Gay Movies on Netflix Streaming: La Bare, La Mission, Priest and More

Netflix continues to add to the LGBT movies available on its streaming service, and giving viewers more of a variety to choose from. Today, we take […]

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Bradley Cooper and Kevin Hart Expected to Rule the Box Office This Weekend

Philly film stars Bradley Cooper and Kevin Hart are expected to own the box office this weekend, with the release of American Sniper and The Wedding Ringer, […]

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5 Best Modern Classics on Netflix Instant Streaming

Amidst all your other resolutions and timely re-imaginings, maybe getting caught up (or just refreshed) on some classic movies will help round out your life. […]

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Wrestler Mark Schultz Angered Over Homosexual Undertones in Foxcatcher [UPDATED]

Wrestler Mark Schultz, the subject of Foxcatcher, which dramatizes the Newtown Square murder of his brother Dave, has taken to Facebook and Twitter to blast director Bennett Miller […]

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Philly Drag Queens Take Off the Wigs and Lashes in Beneath the Makeup

A handful of film students at Temple University are set to screen a new documentary that takes a look at what it’s like to be a drag queen […]

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The Roxy to Screen The Interview

PFS at the Roxy is one of the first theaters in Philadelphia to screen Sony’s banned-then-kind-of-released The Interview, starting on New Year’s Day. The comedy, […]

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The Best and Worst of This Week’s New Movie Releases

SEE IT NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM The Imitation Game: To be frank, I hovered between putting this Alan Turing bio-pic in this category or the “Wait for […]

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Sony Decides to Screen The Interview in Select Theaters

UPDATE: Sony will screen The Interview on its own site, on Google Play and YouTube. More here. ORIGINAL: Sony is backtracking on its decision to pull […]

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10 Best Movies of 2014 (and the 5 Worst)

As critics, we spend countless hours in darkened theaters, scribbling cryptic notes to ourselves and hoping beyond hope to get lucky enough to see something […]

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OUT in Theaters: Annie Should Be Left in the Orphanage

Let me preface all of this with stating that I was not even remotely looking forward to seeing Sony’s updated reversioning of Annie to begin […]

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REVIEW: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Name: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Genre: Fantasy Adventure Logline: It’s Dragonslayer meets The Warriors Quick Review: The third—and final—installment in Peter […]

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WATCH: Bradley Cooper In the Trailer for American Sniper

Bradley Cooper is all over the place these days, and he seems to be making waves and headlines wherever he goes. Critics are eating him […]