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Showgirl Joan Blondell will soon join the ranks of Havana Widows.

Watching Movies in the Cloud

The benefits and drawbacks to streaming video

Twilight’s Taylor Lautner

Behind the Scenes of Twilight

The wildly popular novels and movies depict werewolves as members of the Quileute Indians of Washington State – a new exhibit tells their real story

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Music That Rocks the Imagination

The motivation behind Quetzal’s music is stirring dreams – and helping build communities

You probably know Errol Morris as an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker. Roger Ebert called his first film, Gates of Heaven, one of "the ten greatest films ever made."

Errol Morris: The Thinking Man’s Detective

The documentary filmmaker has become America’s most surprising and provocative public intellectual

Asa Butterfield plays Hugo and Chloe Grace Moretz plays Isabelle in Hugo.

“A Precise, Beautiful Machine”: John Logan on Writing the Screenplay for Hugo

The Oscar-nominated writer tells how he adapted Brian Selznick’s bestseller for the screen

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2012 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts: A Cheat Sheet

As always, Academy voters have their tendencies, but there’s one short this year that stands out among the rest

La Luna

2012 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: A Cheat Sheet

Which are the best shorts to watch and which one will take home the award next weekend?

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in Screen Gems' The Vow

Finding Love at the Movies

Hollywood does romance best in its comedies

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When Uncle Sam Backs Your Film

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When Uncle Sam Backs Your Film

How Act of Valor is only the latest in a long history of official military involvement in the film industry

Matthew Broderick in Matthew's Day Off

What Ever Happened to the Short Film?

Why short films still win Oscars

The Marx Brothers in Horsefeathers

Super Bowl Guide to Football Films

The sport was fodder for slapstick comedy, but as the technology evolved, so did the way in which filmmakers portrayed the gridiron on the big screen

The Godfather Effect looks at how the film saga portrays Italian-Americans and what that has meant to author Tom Santopietro, the film industry and the country.

What is The Godfather Effect?

An obsessed film buff (and Italian-American) reflects on the impact of Francis Ford Coppola’s blockbuster trilogy

Jean Dujardin and Missi Pyle in Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist

The Never-Ending Tussle Between Box Office Hits and Award Winners

Blockbuster movies often lose out at the Oscars, while winners can’t find enough viewers

Rango (Johnny Depp) in Rango, from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies

A Post-Mortem on the Oscar Nominations

Who were the winners and losers in yesterday’s announcement of the Oscar nominees?

Gina Carano and Channing Tatum star in Relativity Media's HAYWIRE

Women Action Stars: From Haywire to The Perils of Pauline

Crediting some stars who preceded Gina Carano on screen

L-R: Charles Rogers, Clara Bow, Richard Arlen in Wings

A Newly Restored Wings

The first Best Picture Oscar winner emerges to help Paramount celebrate its centennial

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' drama "The Great Gatsby," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Coming Attractions for 2012: The Great Gatsby in 3D!!

Films both new and old that we look forward to in the coming year

Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah in Joyful Noise

Seeing a New South in Joyful Noise and Undefeated

Two new films show how far we’ve come since The Birth of a Nation and In the Heat of the Night

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in James Cameron's Titanic.

Seeing Double Part 2: When Studios Collide

Why business enemies sometimes become partners

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