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Center City Getting New Movie Theater! (Sort of)

Broad Street’s getting a new theater. Except it’s not exactly new. Well, whatever, we’ll take anything we can get here in screen-starved Philadelphia. (How’s that […]

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In New Rocky Movie, Stallone Will Need a Walker to Get Up the Art Museum Steps

Gonna fly now…. Via The 700 Level, we see that Sylvester Stallone is planning another Rocky movie. Trying hard now… But it’s totally not a […]

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Kimmel Center Now Open For Movie Showings

CBS Philly: On Tuesday, officials at the Kimmel Center unveiled their brand new digital installation in the Perelman Theater which they hope will be the […]

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Last Week for Bistrot La Minette’s Courtyard

This week marks the end of movies in Bistrot La Minette’s courtyard and to the courtyard itself. Peter Woolsey has leased the courtyard from the […]

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Tigre Hill’s Aborted Union-Bashing Documentary, in Trailer Form

A few weeks ago, filmmaker Tigre Hill (The Shame of the City, The Barrel of a Gun) revealed he was no longer working on a documentary about labor […]

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13 Life Lessons from The Conjuring

The Conjuring — opening today — is based on the “true” story of two families: the Perrons who are being terrorized by the evil spirits […]

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Always Sunny’s Charlie Day Talks Battling Monsters in Pacific Rim

Technically, Charlie Day isn’t a Philadelphian—he just plays one on TV. But that’s close enough for us to follow his career in the movies, where […]

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Philly’s Kevin Hart Has Fourth-Highest-Grossing Concert Film Ever

Forbes reports on the blazing career of Philly comedian Kevin Hart, who is ranked No. 6 on the magazine’s list of top-earning comedians. But by […]

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Hollywood Is Already Working on a Boston Bombing Movie

Today in the “too soon” department, Hollywood has already started working on a film based on the Boston Marathon bombings. It’s been only 85 days […]

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Seven Reasons You Should Skip The Lone Ranger

Perhaps the tepid, if not vicious, reviews have not yet swayed you from seeing The Lone Ranger this weekend. Perhaps your sincere, stalkerish love of […]

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Grading the Films of Rick Santorum’s Christian Movie Company

Rick Santorum: attorney, former United States senator from Pennsylvania, presidential candidate, and now … movie mogul. Over the weekend, Rick Santorum announced that he is […]

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Rick Santorum Is Now A (Christian) Movie Mogul

Rick Santorum is going (Christian) Hollywood! Pennsylvania’s former U.S. senator, and failed candidate for the 2012 GOP nomination, has been named CEO of EchoLight Studios, […]

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America Is Just Like Westeros!

My husband isn’t a Game of Thrones guy. When he comes home from work, he really just wants to watch a movie he’s already seen […]

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New Clip Shows “Philly” Get Zombified in World War Z

Sure, it was actually filmed in Scotland, but the new clip from World War Z makes it seem that a city that looks a little […]

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M. Night Shyamalan Says He Ghost-Wrote a Freddie Prinze Jr. Movie

So said M. Night, in an interview with Movies.com: Shyamalan: By the way, I ghost-wrote a movie that same year that would even add to […]