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HEADS UP: Philly Film Society Screening All Six Original Star Trek Films at the Roxy

My Trekkie officemate Joel is flipping out right now: To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Philadelphia Film Society just announced it […]

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Movie Meter: Interstellar Is Predictably Spectacular, Big Hero 6 Makes Disney-Marvel Magic

SEE IT NOW Interstellar:  Please consider this a vote based more on the spectacle of the film—which director Christopher Nolan shot in wondrous 70mm—than the […]

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Tina Fey Reunited With the Mean Girls Cast and It’s Everything You Hoped It Would Be

This is not a drill: local funny lady Tina Fey has finally reunited with the cast of Mean Girls. Entertainment Weekly made our dreams come true, getting the Upper Darby native […]

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PHOTOS: 10 Character Posters From Into The Woods

While we’re all chomping at the bit for tomorrow’s release of the much-much-anticipated final Into The Woods trailer, producers are giving us something to bide our […]

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WATCH: Wilmington Native Aubrey Plaza Voices Grumpy Cat in New Lifetime Movie

It’s her first-ever movie, and it’s horrible! Everyone’s favorite Internet meme, the ever-lovable Grumpy Cat, is the star of her own full-length made-for-TV movie this holiday season. Lifetime, […]

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Movie Meter: Jake Gyllenhaal Goes Full-Creeper for Nightcrawler

SEE IT Nightcrawler: You have to give Jake Gyllenhaal some credit: Dude is not afraid to go full-creep if a role demands it. In Dan Gilroy’s […]

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Rob McElhenney to Make Directorial Debut With Kids Film Figment

Sunny skies are not about to turn gray for co–star and co-creator of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rob McElhenney. The Philly native will make […]

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Movie Meter: Michael Keaton Makes a Comeback, John Wick Is Surprisingly Good

SEE IT Birdman: Despite the brilliant devastation of his film Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu has not received quite the same level of fame as other Mexican directors […]

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5 Questions With Whiplash Director Damien Chazelle

Twenty-nine-year-old writer/director Damien Chazelle has found himself in career overdrive. He made quite a splash at this year’s Sundance festival with Whiplash, his latest work about a maniacally hard-driving […]

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Meryl Streep to Play Famously Bad Opera Diva Who Lived in Philly

If you’ve never heard of Florence Foster Jenkins, the famous opera singer of the early 20th century, it’s probably because she was famous for being the […]

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Airbender Movie Given Pa. Tax Credits for California Work

M. Night Shyamalan is a hometown boy: He has long favored shooting his movies in and around Philadelphia. The problem for his 2010 flick, The […]

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Movie Meter: Brad Pitt Kills More Nazis, Channing Tatum and Zoe Saldana Get Animated

SEE IT NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGvZoIrXpg Fury: Somehow, when Brad Pitt stars in a film it takes on a larger, more-important caste. It’s a good thing that […]

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13 Scariest Movies on Netflix Streaming

Grab the popcorn and Halloween candy for a mega-marathon of the best scary movies on Netflix. We’ll be shouting “Don’t open that door!” right along with […]

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10 Scary Gay Movies You Can Stream Instantly

One of the most recent gay-themed thrillers on the list, director Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By the Lake follows young Franck, who picks up Michel at a popular gay-cruising spot. […]

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Out in Theaters: Matthew Warchus’s Pride is the Most Enjoyable LGBT Film of the Year

While many of us were gaga over Meryl Streep’s performance of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, that film did little to shine a critical light […]