Brian Raftery

It’s here! After months — wait, make that years — of speculation, the first full trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally arrived Monday night . Here are some of our favorite mome...

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Tonight, we’ll finally get an extended look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens , in the form of a trailer airing during the halftime portion of ESPN’s Monday Night Football. The movie is less t...

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Have an HBO Now account? Check out the TV and film titles that are coming to (including American Sniper, Taken 3 and Little Miss Sunshine) and leaving (including Meet the Parents, The Lake House ...

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch are in talks to play George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison in the Weinstein Company’s The Current War . Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in talks to direct th...

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Get ready for lift-off! On Thursday, Sept. 24, at 12:45 pm EST/9:45am PST, Yahoo Movies is livestreaming the London premiere of The Martian, director Ridley Scott’s latest space opus. Watch abo...

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I’m a contributing editor to Wired magazine, and the author of new book about the Upright Citizens Brigade. I can be reached at brianraftery at gmail dot com.

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Get ready for lift-off! On Thursday, Sept. 24, at 12:45 pm EST/9:45am PST, Yahoo Movies is livestreaming the London premiere of The Martian, director Ridley Scott’s latest space opus. Click her...

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Tom Hiddleston seems like a nice enough chap: Even when he’s playing a vengeful, Asgard-aspiring Marvel villain (Thor) or a glumly expatriate rock-and-roll vampire (Only Lovers Left Alive), th...

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Daniel Craig feels that his interpretation of James Bond is “not as sexist and misogynistic” as previous incarnations of the British spy, but 007 still has a way to go to be considered a mode...

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The “flix” part of Netflix is about to get less precise: Thousands of movies through its deal with Epix , the JV of Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM, are set to roll off the streaming service wh...

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‘The Hunger Games’ Poster Accidentally Drops Expletive

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FIRSTLOOKYOU SELFIE REVIEWS MINIONS ANT-MAN TRAINWRECK Everybody’s a critic — and that includes you! With the first selfie movie-review app FirstLookYou, brought to you by Yahoo Movies, you...

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Alex Rocco as Moe Greene in ‘The Godfather’ (Photo: Everett Collection) Alex Rocco, the veteran tough-guy character actor with the gravelly voice best known for playing mobster and Las Veg...

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WATCH JOSS WHEDON SPEECH COMIC-CON 2015 At Comic-Con this past weekend, Avengers: Age of Ultron writer-director Joss Whedon took the stage for a one-man panel and Q&A session, in which he discu...

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Even the biggest stars — 6’5” and 260 pounds big — can get starstruck from time to time. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson confessed in an interview with Esquire  that he was reduced to g...

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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired distribution rights to War Machine , the David Michod -directed drama which will star Brad Pitt as a four-star rock star U.S. military general. The character is ...

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'Queen of Versailles' Stars' Daughter Victoria Siegel Dead at 18

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Director Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of ‘12 Years a Slave’ By Austin Siegemund-Broka Hollywood’s racial and gender diversity is increasing. But it’s not increa...

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Joseph Kahn is not putting up with bullying no matter who it’s from. The music video director who posted a 14-minute Power Rangers take-off — his fourth “Bootleg Universe” project — ...

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I’m a contributing editor to Wired magazine, and the author of new book about the Upright Citizens Brigade. I can be reached at brianraftery at gmail dot com.

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