We know what the critics think of the new family film Dolphin Tale, featuring the real-life amputee dolphin Winter in the story of a marine mammal outfitted with a revolutionary prosthetic after a crab-trap accident cost her her tail fins. But while the movie may prove inspiring to human viewers, Movieline dares to ask the question that all too commonly eludes our species: What about the dolphins?
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Whether he is playing a cultural icon, a pajama bottomed-stoner or a soap opera performance artist "whose canvas is murder," James Franco oftentimes relies on a gravely stage whisper to deliver his lines. From anyone else's mouth, it would sound creepy, but coming from Franco, it is acceptable and even worthy of Academy Award recognition.* In celebration of his patented delivery, New York Magazine has assembled sixty seconds worth of the actor's most inspired dramatic whisper work over the past decade. Click through for take-off.
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The Web experienced one of those slow-news-week stirrings last weekend when a seller on eBay put up incontrovertible photographic evidence (ahem) of Nicolas Cage chilling for a portrait back around the time of the Civil War. Cage is undead, the argument (AHEM) went, and so what better way to capitalize on this bracing phenomenological development than to unload the 19th-century artifact to the highest bidder? Anyway, that auction came and went, but not without the definitive, deeply necessary 60-second animated recap you were praying for.
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Do you know what WWE fans love? Like, really feel passionately about? Australian Tony Award winners. Just ask any of the 15,000 adrenaline junkies who showed up to see pro wrestlers like The Miz and R-Truth throw down at last night's WWE Monday Night Raw and instead got... guest host Hugh Jackman shilling his upcoming robot boxing movie Real Steel! Summon your steeliest nerves and click through to watch the awkward scripted WWE drama unfold below. Warning: You may be tempted to revoke Jackman's Emmy.
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Movieline can't help but root for 50 Cent and his acting career, football cancer movies and all. In an exclusive behind the scenes clip from his upcoming DVD release Set Up -- a diamond heist thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Ryan Phillippe -- the rapper-thespian opens up and gets personal talking about the impact he hope his latest acting endeavor makes on his career and dating life.
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Thelma and Louise. Seven. Fight Club. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Tree of Life. To say nothing of this week's superb Moneyball. With a few arguable exceptions, these are among the Brad Pitt films you'll find generally accepted as canonical. So which, if he had to choose one, do you think he would hand down as his legacy? Hint: None of them.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up in George Clooney's bed with a horse mask and a hangover? Thanks to a clever (or just strange) commercial from Norwegian bank DnB NOR, you no longer have to wonder!
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With less than a month until The Thing -- the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi classic -- hits theaters, Universal is upping their marketing ante with a spoileriffic red band trailer that not only reveals The Thing, how it is discovered, how it attacks, who it attacks and who it kills, but it also shows off some of the climactic special effects. Subtle much? Click through to see the red band trailer at your own risk.
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Henning Ohlenbusch has more than just one of the most awesome names in contemporary music. He also now has a full-length album of songs inspired by movies. It's quite the spectrum, too -- Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Straight Story, Amélie, Joe Versus the Volcano, Logan's Run, Meatballs, The Year My Voice Broke, Superbad and, in an irresistible effort you can hear after the jump, a folk song inspired by that mellow, soothing cinematic bromide known as Poltergeist.
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Because even Movieline HQ has an extended happy hour on Thursdays, check the latest Entertainment Minute from our sister network ENTV -- now featuring selections from this site's very own Weekend Forecast. This will be a regular thing going forward, so please tune in weekly for your companion video with host Chelsea Cannell. And get all the expert marks on the latest and greatest movies in our scintillating Reviews section. You can't lose. Click through for this week's episode!
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Movieline is pleased to bring you the first official theatrical trailer for The Swell Season, a documentary chronicling the creative partnership, intimate romance, meteoric rise and turbulent Oscar aftermath of Once co-stars and songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
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George Clooney may have been voted Sexiest Man Alive twice by People magazine but you still might want to think long and hard before hiring the Oscar winner to maintain your inground pool. The Ides of March writer/director/star certainly looks pretty while wielding a leaf skimmer but in a new clip for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, he misses an entire forest's worth of foliage in his pool while barking frustrated parenting cues at his daughters. Pool Boy Union of America, you may want to avert your eyes.
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The buzz circulating around Rampart at the Toronto Film Festival has it either right on the fringe of the Oscar crop (with a few judicious cuts) or simply a curio with a ferocious turn by Woody Harrelson. And now viewers at home can finally get a look at what may or may not materialize as one of the season's awards candidates -- a bundle of NSFW clips have arrived online for your viewing pleasure.
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What is it with hometown reunions and high school sweethearts this week? Already, we've seen Hilary Duff try to hijack Mark Polish before he can rekindle the flames with his teen crush (Winona Ryder) in Stay Cool. We've seen artwork for Diablo Cody's Young Adult, which features a teen lit novelist (Charlize Theron) who tries to reclaim her happily-married high school honey (Patrick Wilson). And now, we get a clip of Channing Tatum zeroing in on his love interest of yester-decade (Rosario Dawson) in a snippet from the star-packed Ten Year.
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We've already established this week's Bad Movie We Love, The Main Event, as a benchmark of Barbra Streisand costuming. But what of this rare video -- long-rumored and finally unearthed this week -- of Babs dropping by the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, rocking a dominatrix outfit and whipping Harrison Ford for his recent cinematic transgressions? With Ford's Empire Strikes Back collaborators Carrie Fisher and Irvin Kershner making cameos? Some are calling it a practical joke, but I call it a milestone.
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