 | | Fighting for Family |  | Set in the brutal world of MMA fighting, Gavin O’Connor’s WARRIOR tells the story of two estranged brothers and their paths to redemption. Inception star Tom Hardy plays Tommy, a former Marine back home for the first time in fourteen years. Dealing with the... more |
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|  | | Smurf's Up! | | | The famous little blue guys from the '80s are back in THE SMURFS — a Smurftastic new 3D adventure, writes Ellie Johnson. The first in what Sony intends to be a trilogy, the CGI/live-action hybrid The Smurfs features the voices of Jonathan Winters, Katy... more |
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 | | Career Opportunity | | | Director Seth Gordon's HORRIBLE BOSSES is a black comedy about a universal problem — with an extreme solution. Black comedy Horrible Bosses brings to life the fantasy of many a disgruntled employee; solve all work-related problems by killing the person... more |
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|  | | Boardwalk Empire | | | Costume designers John Dunn and Lisa Padovani ensure that HBO’s new hit series BOARDWALK EMPIRE is suitably dressed to impress. Set in 1920, Boardwalk Empire tells the tale of political figure Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and the corruption that made... more |
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 | | Going Through The Change | | | In the hit comedy THE CHANGE-UP, married guy Jason Bateman and party bachelor Ryan Reynolds swap bodies and lives. What was it about The Change-Up that really made you want to be a part of it? JASON BATEMAN: Well, I liked that I could play the... more |
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|  | | Taken | | | Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner proves he’s more than just a pretty face in the new action-thriller ABDUCTION. Taking a step back from his residency as the best friend turned werewolf in The Twilight Saga, Taylor Lautner moves into the spotlight in his first leading... more |
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 | | Special Feature: The Best of 2011 | | | With 2011 all but over, STACK reflects on the past year in Film, bringing you our top list of the best achievements, major events, game changers & more — plus (after agonising, arguing and deliberating) the ultimate #1 title in Film for 2011.... more |
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|  | | Monkey Business | | | 43 years after Charlton Heston discovered humanity’s shocking fate in Planet of the Apes, prequel RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES reveals the explosive origins of the epic conflict between primates and humankind. Rupert Wyatt (director of Rise of the Planet... more |
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 | | Greatest American Hero | | | Captain America, the oldest Marvel comic book hero, is now the screen’s newest superhero sensation in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. You have to admit that Marvel’s plan to produce a series of films that weave together different characters and storylines from... more |
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|  | | Wild About Harry | | | STACK celebrates 10 years of HARRY POTTER and looks back at the film versions of J.K. Rowling’s beloved books. HARRY POTTER: YEARS 1–4 It’s a brand that’s said to be worth more than $15 billion and the film franchise is now the highest earning ever on... more |
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 | | Super 8 | | | The title of J.J. Abrams' new movie evokes old school filmmaking, and that’s exactly what he has delivered in this affectionate homage to the late '70s. It sounds like a film fan’s fantasy feature lineup: Steven Spielberg, the film brat who grew up into being Hollywood’s... more |
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|  | | Leader of the Pack | | | The Wolf Pack are back in THE HANGOVER PART II and this time Bangkok has them. Director Todd Phillips explains why you shouldn't mess with a formula for success. Following the success of The Hangover, it was a no brainer that a sequel would follow. In fact,... more |
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 | | Rules of Engagement | | | BRIDESMAIDS stars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and director Paul Feig share their thoughts about female-led comedies and how to get the perfect balance of heart and hilarity. Paul Feig is probably best known for having created the NBC comedy Freaks and Geeks alongside... more |
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|  | | Total Bayhem | | | Michael Bay promises Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be bigger and better than the last Transformers film; destroying Chicago to prove his point. When director Michael Bay finally did what many fans considered to be the right thing, admitting that the second... more |
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 | | Hot For Teacher | | | The comedy BAD TEACHER stars Cameron Diaz as a gold digger who sets her sights on Justin Timberlake. Director Jake Kasdan talks about working with the former lovebirds, and their dry-humping scene. How did you get involved with this film? Jake Kasdan: Lee... more |
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|  | | 3-Disney | | | How do you take a hand-drawn animated Disney classic like THE LION KING and turn it into a 3D masterpiece? We talk to Disney Stereographer Robert Neuman to find out... How long has 3D cinema been around? ROBERT NEUMAN: We all know that 2D cinema has... more |
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 | | In Praise Of... | | | The Epics We Never Got To See Stanley Kubrick considered Napoleon Bonaparte to be the greatest man who ever lived, describing his life as “an epic poem of action”. Following the phenomenal success of his movie A Space Odyssey in 1968, the director embarked... more |
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|  | | Bob J.'s Classic Corner: BEN-HUR (1959) | | | - Directed by William Wyler In 1924, the merger of three struggling minor studios that created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer caused some amusement within the motion picture industry. As one wag at the time stated: “Three failures into one success won’t go”.
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 | | Stack Salutes HERO: Professor X | | | Telepath and mentor to mutants. Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, is not your average hero, not least because he spent the first batch of X-Men films in a wheelchair and let his younger charges do most of the combative sequences. But his telepathic abilities would... more |
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|  | | Stack Salutes VILLAIN: Magneto | | | Magnetic personality and leader of the mutant Brotherhood. Magneto is, many comic book experts agree, the Malcolm X to Professor X’s Martin Luther King (all the more confusing given the characters’ respective names), but the analogy holds water. Brought up in far... more |
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