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Fairytale movies including ‘Snow White’ headed to big screen


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America has hopped on a fairytale wagon with films like the upcoming Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, both due this year. Perhaps the success of 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth got the wheels turning. Though an original story, the magical, fairies and fauns meshed well with civil war Spain. As well, Disney’s 2009 The […]

Sister acts pack one-two punch in Hollywood


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When we think of siblings making movies, amazing sets of brothers usually come to mind : Warners, Marx, Coen, Farrelly, Hughes and Wayans, to name a few. They have lit up Hollywood time and again. But brothers aren’t the only sets of siblings entertaining us. A recent study by Dr. Stacy Smith, who researches on […]

Fairy tale films not so successful


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Once upon a time, a pretty girl got lost in a scary forest only to be rescued by … a beast? A hunter? A bunch of little men? Any of those will work for the multitude of fairy tale films from our childhood. We have all been inundated by these narratives, which often involve a […]

Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts to appear in romantic comedy


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The trailer for Larry Crowne, a film that is written, directed, produced and stars Tom Hanks, has finally arrived. The romantic comedy pairs Hanks and Julia Roberts, two famous faces who had a significant impact on the genre in the 1990s. The film focuses on Larry Crowne (Hanks), a middle-aged man who decides to enroll […]