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Nobody Does It Better: Ranking The James Bond Theme Songs Even as theJames Bondseries marches into the future and changes with the times, it’s a slave to tradition. Every 007 movie has a theme song sung by an artist who usually represents pop music at the exact moment of the film’s release. In an age where most movies don’t even bother to have opening credits, these movies feature extended title sequences that are deliberately constructed to show off the song that was recorded just for the movie....

Plot Details Of Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’ Reveal Johnny Depp Will Be A Big Thinker Wally Pfisterhas become famous as Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer, but he’s making the leap to director with a film calledTranscendence. We’ve known little about the movie beyond the fact thatJohnny Deppwill play the lead — one of three scientists — and that the story has a sci-fi bent as one of the characters “creates a computer that develops a malevolent awareness....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,’ A Taut Danish Thriller, A Dario Argento Horror Classic, And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) Spring is here and the snow is still covering the ground. As the long winter months stretch into March, I’m back to recommend you the best foreign movies and TV streaming now to while away the time....

Robert Luketic Directing ‘The ExpendaBelles’ While Avi Lerner and Millennium Films were oncereportedlyon the hunt for a female director to call the shots onThe ExpendaBelles, they’re going to settle for the guy who directedLegally Blonde.Robert Luketicis now set to make the all-female riff on The Expendables. And the choice makes a certain sort of sense, as the film was scripted byLegally BlondewritersKaren McCullah LutzandKirsten Smith. The real news here might not be that director hire, however, but the film’s plot, which is below....

Rooney Mara Says She’s Still Up For ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel: “As Far As I Know I’m Doing It” A few weeks back, word got around that Sonywas finally moving forwardwith aThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoosequel –withoutDavid Fincher,Daniel Craig, orRooney Mara. But that last part seems to be news to Mara. The actress says she’s still attached to the franchise, as far as she knows, and that “of course” she’d love to make another....

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Part One) Trailer Breakdown: Miles In 2099 There are so many big sequels coming our way in 2022 that it can be a little tough to keep track of them all. But Sony and Marvel made a big splash recently in revealing the firstteaser trailer for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One),“aka “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2,” which belongs at the top of any list of our most anticipated upcoming movies....

Superhero Bits: Captain America, Batman V Superman, Powers, The Flash, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Want a better look at Jay Garrick inThe Flash? WhichBatmanisChris O’Donnell’s favorite? IsWonder Womangetting her ownBatman v Supermanstatue? Which heroes are coming toMarvel Future Fight? How did the stunts inAvengers: Age of Ultroncome together? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits. @HayleyAtwell@ChrisEvansthank you so much for being there. It was such a shock! You both are awesome!...

SXSW Movie Review: Run, Fat Boy, Run In just three films, actor/comedian/screenwriter Simon Pegg has gone from playing a lovable, if clueless, slacker fighting off a zombie apocalypse and saving his girlfriend, his best friend, and a pint of beer (not necessarily in that order) inShaun of the Deadto an anti-slacker/overachiever/cop exiled to a small sleepy town experiencing a rash of mysterious deaths inHot Fuzzand now, inRun, Fat Boy, Run, another slacker, maybe not quite as lovable this time, trying to win back the woman he left at their wedding ceremony five years ago....

The 15 Best Video Game Adaptations Of Movies, Ranked A movie license does, at times, appear to be a lazy excuse for game developers to change the graphics on an existing title (typically a platform game), knock together some levels that loosely resemble some of the scenes from the film, and release it to poor unsuspecting punters who will buy it solely for the name on the box. It’s lazy and cynical, but it’s a time-tested method....

The Case Against Tyrion Lannister, The Patricidal Justice-Dodger Whose Words Are Bigger Than His Accomplishments (Welcome toDebate of Thrones, where a panel of Citadel-trained experts explain why someone deserves, or doesn’t deserve, to sit on the Iron Throne. In this edition: Tyrion Lannister may be a clever man, but he’s the last guy you want calling the shots.)Don’t let the quips and the flashy entourage fool you, Tyrion Lannister is wrong for Westeros....

Theme Park Bits: A runDisney Club, Disney Villains After Hours Foodie Guide, And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: It’s rare that Theme Park Bits ever highlights one of arguably the most popular traditions at the Disney theme parks: running events. (That may be due to the fact that this writer is not himself a runner / a person who is in shape.) But you may be the kind of person who enjoys running and takes part inrunDisney-sanctioned events in the parks....

Theme Park Bits: Huge ‘Toy Story’ Land Domino Maze, Fantasyland Recreated In Home Basement, And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Here’s something cool, viaThe Disney Blog. To celebrate the opening ofToy StoryLand at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this year, “Walt Disney World invited a domino chain-reaction maze artist to build a basketball court-sized colorful domino maze involving more than 30,000 intricately placed pieces and then knock it all down....

TIFF Movie Review: CleanFlix When I first found out that a documentary about Cleanflix was playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, I immediately added it to my must-see list. I’ve always been interested and outraged at the concept of Cleanflix. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are advised not to watch R-rated movies because the language, sex and violence will contaminate and pervert your brain. The modern day prophets say the best solution is to avoid these things at all costs....