Movie Blog Archives - June 2011

This weekend, Los Angeles hosts the 20th Anniversary of Anime Expo, the biggest anime expo in the country, with over 105,000 visitors attending the four-day convention last year. With the doors opening again this Friday, we take a look at ten more can't-miss things happening in and around L.A. Live.

The Alamo Drafthouse has quickly garnered a reputation as one of the greatest movie theaters in the history of mankind…or at least the history of movie theaters. With their signature events, ample food and drink selection, and strict no-talking policy, they make obsolete all tawdry multiplexes and completely redefine the movie-going experience. Here’s what they’re up to this week!

With Transformers: Dark of the Moon bringing the Michael Bay-directed franchise to a close, we decided to dedicate this week’s The Five to see if other movie robots might have a chance at taking down Megatron, Shockwave and company. While there were plenty that had the potential to give the Decepticons a run for their money, see if you agree with our picks.

Tomas Alfredson – who brought us the touching, but terrifying coming-of-age Swedish vamp tale, Let the Right One In – returns to the big screen with an adaptation of John le Carré's bestselling novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a Cold War thriller that follows the hunt for a Soviet mole in Britain's MI6.

One of the biggest questions facing the third installment of the Transformers franchise, besides if it will be better than the second movie, is the absence of Megan Fox. We polled more than 1,000 moviegoers and asked them if they would miss seeing Fox as Shia LaBeouf’s co-star. Here what the results were...

With only 15 days left until Harry Potter day – when Deathly Hallows: Part 2 opens on July 15 – we're ramping up and counting down to the finale with loads of features, polls and giveaways and exclusive content! Today's poll centers on Harry Potter heroines. We want to know who your favorite heroine is – let us know in the poll, and comments, below.

As Peter Jackson continues to direct The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey toward its December 14, 2012 release date, Empire magazine has revealed two new images from Middle-Earth. The pics, which will appear in the August issue, feature Ian McKellan as Gandolf and Martin Freeman as Bilbo.

That's right! The kind folks over at Anchor Bay have given us an exclusive poster premiere for 5 Days of War. The film is an action-packed international thriller from acclaimed director, Renny Harlin. Based on true events, this intense film is a vivid account of a renegade American journalist, his cameraman and a local woman caught...

It feels almost greedy that we're getting two doses of Spielberg this Christmas.  The first is The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which we've already seen various US and International trailers for.  Marketing for his second film, however, has proven a bit more elusive.  But all of that changed this morning with the release of the first official trailer for War Horse.

A few years ago, rumors began to circulate that a sequel to Point Break was in the works. Unfortunately, that project never came together – and with Swayze’s untimely passing, it seems likely that we’ll never see a true sequel although that doesn’t mean Point Break can’t be the subject of a remake – which is the current rumor making the rounds.

This could be the easiest $100 you ever make. All you have to do is watch the Transformers 3 Video Interviews from Moscow, then jump over to the entry form page and answer the following question...

This is part of a series of posts for the "Write Your Own Caption" Contest, running through July 19, 2011. Write a caption to the posted Harry Potter photo for a chance to win Fandango Bucks! (You can check out the official rules here.)

The first trailer for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise has arrived and finds Cruise's Ethan Hunt teaming up with Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton. Does it look like the best of the four? Check it out and sound off!

This week sees the release of Zack Snyder's weirdly inventive Sucker Punch, about an insane asylum patient who creates an altermate world in her mind; Nic Cage as an ex-Crusader who fights the Church and the supernatural in Season of the Witch, and the long-awaited high-def version of the LOTR series.

With the Aug. 19 release date quickly approaching for the 80’s vampire horror-comedy remake Fright Night, four new international posters have debuted with some groan-inducing puns pasted next to the characters. Check out the four banners and feel free to add your own movie poster puns, just, please, no "vampires suck" puns.