I have to admit something to all of you. I don’t think there is an easy way to say it so here today, on The Movies, I will just have to come right out with it: For most of my life, I’ve missed out on the entire Muppets phenomenon and I really didn’t know what all the fuss was about…until …

Anthony Mackie didn’t quite come out of nowhere, as he’s always been turning in solid work, but lately his career has just been soaring. Literally, in the case of his character, Falcon, in the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But for his new flick, Repentance, he’s keeping things grounded. Really grounded. As in underground. Locked up in the basement of a psychotic Forest …

  While Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to his big screen terminating ways hasn’t quite panned out as well I’m sure he would have hoped (though I kind of dug The Last Stand), he’s not letting a little box office jitters hold him back. And next up he’ll be teaming with David Ayer, the man behind last year’s simply brilliant End of Watch, to …

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Hollywood has a knack for translating current hot topic headlines to movies in record time, but occasionally they look to tell a story from the past that may not be as well known. Writer director Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot doesn’t quite fit that bill. The true story of a 1993 triple homicide in West Memphis, which saw the (twenty year old spoiler alert) …

If there is one thing that Guillermo Del Toro is great at, besides multi-tasking, it’s coming up with some truly creepy monsters. Mimic, Blade 2 and Pacific Rim are just a few examples of his horrrific imagination. And now he’s going back to the Nsoferatu with The Strain, which has received the go ahead green light from FX. Last Updated: …

  What Tom Cruise wants, Tom Cruise gets! After tangoing around the project for eons now, Tom Cruise looks like he’s finally ready to give El Presidente the attention that it needs. Doug “Mr and Mrs Smith” Liman is on board to direct, but there’s one other ingredient that Cruise needs before he’ll commit to the film. Jack “truth-handling” Nicholson, …

And now for something completely different. As far as comedy acts go, Monty Python is one such group which helped usher in a new breed of comedy and sketches, from their groundbreaking work on the Flying Circus TV series, through to their various films which examined everything from feudal systems to naughty messiahs. Ever since they wrapped up on the …