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 Have a look at two new posters for these upcoming films.  Cowboys and Aliens arrives July 29th.  Trailer here.  Warrior drops in to celebrate our two-year anniversary on September 9th.  Trailer here.

 Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane — the man who changed baseball — and the Oakland Athletic’s baseball team. Director Bennett Miller (Capote) took over the film when Steven Soderbergh was kicked off the production.  The cast includes Brad Pitt (as Beane), Jonah Hill, Philip …

 Ryan Reynolds is Hal Jordan, a test pilot who becomes better known as The Green Lantern once a magical green ring falls into his possession.  It seems like we are getting a new comic-book based film every other week this Summer, and this week is no exception.  In The 

 Check out this pretty cool featurette with David Fincher (The Social Network) and Christopher Nolan (Inception) speaking highly of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.

 The Debt is a nifty looking spy/thriller directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), and stars Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and one of my favorite character actors — Ciaran Hinds.  The film comes out August 31st, and you can watch the trailer here.

Things are looking up for this week’s DVD/Blu-ray releases. First up is Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine.  The controversial film (previously rated NC-17 for explicit sexual content) stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a couple struggling to stay together through the years and save their bleak marriage. Williams earned her 

 Director Pedro Almodovar and actor Antonio Banderas have teamed up once again for The Skin I Live In, a remake of a French horror/thriller.  Skin will debut at Cannes before being released in the U.S. in November.    Creepy.  Be sure to read the synopsis below the trailer to better 

 (Editor’s note:  This will be the first of an occasional series on Gary’s favorite movie decade — the 1940s — one of the best eras in cinema history.)    «Joan Bennett was wonderful to work with and I enoyed it very much; I think at the beginning she enjoyed 

 What defines a movie as a horror film can be a very subjective topic, it seems.  What one person might call a scary movie, another might look at more as a dark comedy, or science fiction, etc.  I think the one thing to keep in mind when it comes

Fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones will recognize Jason Momoa as the title character in the upcoming reboot of the franchise that helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger an action star.  Momoa plays Khal Drogo in Thrones, a character that seems somewhat linear to his new Conan role.    I’m just meh