In this edition, the animated history of Superman runs through the 80-year history of the Man of STeel from the comics to the big screen and everything in between. Plus, a video essay explores toxic masculinity in the films of P.T. Anderson and more.
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Cameron Crowe's new film, Aloha, is in theaters so we've decided to rank the best Cameron Crowe movies. Where does Almost Famous fall? Find out here.
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Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo unfolds in the kind of universe where characters say things like "If you do something for the right reasons, nothing can stop you," and indeed, it turns out that if your heart is in the right place, Mother Nature herself will stop and part the clouds to make your…
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Briefly: Evidently the Thanksgiving weekend sneak preview screenings of Cameron Crowe's new film We Bought a Zoo went down pretty well, because Fox is doing it again this weekend. The studio has announced that the film, which opens for real on December 23, will show "additional sneak previews of the film in hundreds of theaters…
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Ten years after Cameron Crowe included several songs by Icelandic band Sigur Rós in Vanilla Sky, the director turned to band frontman Jónsi to write the entire score for his new project, We Bought a Zoo. Though we won't know until December 23 exactly how the movie turned out (well, unless you caught one of those…
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When an audience sits down for a Cameron Crowe movie they have certain expectations. An amazing soundtrack; well-rounded, relateable characters; and a heartwarming, interesting story filled with clever, thoughtful dialogue. We've seen these things in Crowe's most beloved films: Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. He got away from that a bit with his…
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We've already expressed our eagerness to check out Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo, and it seems Fox is equally excited to show it to us. The studio has teamed up with social media service TOUT to offer sneak preview screenings of the drama on Saturday, November 26, four weeks before its official release date…
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Earlier today, I posted a story with hundreds of studio released movie posters that all looked the same. The lead sentence was "News flash: today’s movie posters generally suck." Almost as if it was a response to that, Cameron Crowe's official website The Uncool debuted the theatrical poster for his upcoming film, We Bought a…
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One of the things I (and I think many other people) love about Cameron Crowe's films is how warm and optimistic they tend to be. And his latest directorial effort, We Bought a Zoo, clearly won't be any different in that regard. Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the drama stars Matt Damon as…
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Cameron Crowe might have been MIA for a few years but he's back in full force in 2011 with two documentaries and his latest narrative movie, We Bought A Zoo. The film stars Matt Damon as a single father who decides to move his family to a downtrodden zoo. Based on a true story, We…
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Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview hits newsstands Friday and, as usual, it's filled with new information and photos from some of the most anticipated films scheduled for release between September through December. After the jump, check out new photos from We Bought a Zoo, Jack and Jill, Like Crazy, Contagion, Drive, Abduction, Hugo, The Muppets,…
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After a six year hiatus, Cameron Crowe is about to come back in a big way with three films released in five months: The music documentaries Pearl Jam Twenty and The Union as well as the narrative film, We Bought A Zoo. Like all of his previous films, though, these are singular stories. Crowe's never…
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Cameron Crowe seems to be really enjoying Twitter. Not only has he been replying back to fans, he's continued to tweet photos from the set of We Bought a Zoo. Crowe's latest is scheduled for release on December 23 and stars Matt Damon as a man whose family buys and moves to a zoo after…
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Cameron Crowe is keeping busy. He just world premiered his Elton John documentary, The Union, at the Tribeca Film Festival, released the first trailer for his upcoming Pearl Jam documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty, is currently directing We Bought a Zoo and even started tweeting. The writer/director whose love of mass media was immortalized in Almost…
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I'm a huge fan of director Cameron Crowe, and Almost Famous is one of my favorite films of all time. Before I started /Film, one of the websites I use to check on a regular basis was a Cameron Crowe fansite called The Uncool (which, yes, is a brilliant reference from Almost Famous). The guy…
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Cinema Con, formerly known as ShoWest, is currently going down in Las Vegas and in addition to screening a ton of footage from upcoming movies, many studios are premiering photos and posters from their upcoming films. 20th Century Fox, for example, created a calendar for the event and it provides our first look at several…
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Hot off the $125 million (and counting) success of Little Fockers, director Paul Weitz has chosen his next project and is just about ready to lock up his leading lady. Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Tina Fey is in final talks to star in Admission, based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The…
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If you read my top ten of 2010 you saw that, despite some diamonds in the rough, I felt 2010 was largely unimpressive in terms of film. Well, if potential says anything, 2011 is going to be amazing. We've got new films from filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Michel Gondry, Ron Howard and Jodie Foster, incredible…
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It's going to be a good year for J.B. Smoove. The comedian and Curb Your Entusiasm favorite has got a new season of Curb coming up, he's in the Farrelly Borhters film Hall Pass, and has already shot a role in David Gordon Green's The Sitter, where he and Sam Rockwell play drug dealers on…
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Leave it to Cameron Crowe to make the soundtrack for a movie before he's shot a single frame. In a recent interview with MTV, Matt Damon said that when he got the script to Crowe's new film, We Bought A Zoo, it came with a soundtrack that featured "a lot of Eddie Vedder" and "a…
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Colin Firth is edging closer to genuine leading man status, thanks in part to big awards season recognition for films like A Single Man and The King's Speech. It's a transformation that will take another big step if he takes the lead role in Gambit, a heist thriller remake scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen.…
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Cameron Crowe is set to reteam with Almost Famous star (and big screen alter ego) Patrick Fugit and talented up and comer Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Super 8, The Nines) in the a big screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Deadline is reporting that Fanning will play the role of Lily,…
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The results are in for one more casting race -- well, this one wasn't a race, exactly. Earlier this week we reported that director Cameron Crowe was interested in Scarlett Johansson for the lead female role in We Bought a Zoo. Now she's reportedly nearing a deal to make the picture, in which she'll appear…
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Deadline has learned that Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2, Lost in Translation) is Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) top choice to play the female lead in his next movie, a big screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Other actresses on Crowe's shortlist include Amy Adams (Enchanted, Doubt) Mary Elizabeth…
Read MoreThomas Haden Church (Spider-Man 3, Sideways) has joined the cast of director Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Variety reports that Church will join Matt Damon, who stars as Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Looking for…
Read MoreI had heard rumblings a few weeks ago, and now Variety confirms what I've heard -- Matt Damon is in talks to star in director Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in…
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Warner Bros, Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have announced new release dates for a sixteen films to be released over the next three years. We have information and dates for all of the films, after the jump. New Line's follow-up to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve will be released on December 9th 2011.…
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