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2012 Holiday Movie Guide

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Nov 20, 2012 1:26 AM
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Wreck It Ralph

Looking for something the whole family can see when school is out on winter break? John C. Reilly stars in this animated movie as a videogame bad guy who causes all kinds of trouble as he tries to transform into a hero by escaping to another game in his arcade. The cast also includes Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Silverman, Ed O'Neill and Mindy Kaling.

Nov. 2, 2012


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Flight

Denzel Washington is a pilot who becomes a celebrated hero after he crash lands his commercial plane to prevent a midair collision. However, an investigation uncovers what really happened during the flight.

Nov. 2, 2012


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Skyfall

Daniel Craig has returned as 007 in what will probably be the most successful James Bond movie of all time. The hunky spy is torn when M's (Judi Dench) secret past comes back to haunt her. Javier Bardem chews through the Sam Mendes-directed film as the bleached blonde villain Silva. French beauty Bérénice Marlohe and British babe Naomie Harris are the new Bond girls.

Nov. 9, 2012


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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

As if we really need to tell you what this movie is all about. You may not want to accept it, but it's time to say goodbye to Edward (Robert Pattinson), Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

Nov. 16, 2012


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Lincoln

Oscar alert! Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th  president of the U.S. The epic drama focuses on the end of the Civil War and the last months of his life and also includes Sally Field, John Hawkes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Tommy Lee Jones and Lee Pace. Make like President Obama and see it now!

Nov. 16, 2012


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Anna Karenina

Keira Knightly reunites with her Atonement director Joe Wright to play a 19th century Russian aristocrat who falls in love with Count Vronsky (Kick-Ass' Aaron Johnson). Rounding out the cast are Jude Law and Emily Watson, among others.

Nov. 16, 2012


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Life of Pi

Ang Lee directs the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling fantasy action novel about an Indian teenager (Suraj Sharma) who is stranded on a life raft with a Bengal tiger for 227 days.

Nov. 21, 2012


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Silver Linings Playbook

This is the first of two new movies starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Here, the Hangover actor is a man who meets a troubled young woman (Lawrence) while trying to reconcile with his ex-wife after his release from a mental institution. Robert De Niro costars.

Nov. 21, 2012


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Rise of the Guardians

Uh-oh! Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman) and the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) are joined by Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to save the world from The Nightmare King, aka The Boogeyman (Jude Law). The animated film 3-D adventure is based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series.

Nov. 21, 2012


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Rust and Bone

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard is an award season fave for her work starring in this French-Belgian drama as a killer-whale trainer falling in love with a man (Matthias Schoenaerts) who has returned to Antibes, France to be with his family. A horrifying accident brings them closer together.

Nov. 23, 2012


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Killing Them Softly

The adaptation of George V. Higgins' 1974 novel Cogan's Trade stars Brad Pitt as bad ass enforcer looking into a heist that takes place during a mob-controlled poker game. The cast also includes James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins and Ray Liotta.

Nov. 30, 2012


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Open Road Films

Playing for Keeps

Date movie alert! Gerard Butler is a former professional sports star coaching his son's soccer team and romancing a local gal (Jessica Biel) when he gets a shot at becoming an ESPN sportscaster. Judy Greer gets some sexy time with Butler, too. "He has the most hypnotic blue eyes," Greer says. "You get kind of lost in them."

Dec. 7, 2012


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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

They're baaack. In the first installment to the three-part prequel to the The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and a group of dwarves set off for the Lonely Mountain to bring back treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom reprise their LOTR roles.

Dec. 14, 2012


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Monsters Inc. 3D

If you loved Monsters Inc. when it was first released in 2001, you're going to love it even more in 3-D.

Dec. 19, 2012


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Zero Dark Thirty

Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow returns to the Middle East for an action drama about the search for Osama bin Laden after 9/11. The star-studded cast includes Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton, Kyle Chandler and more.

Dec. 19, 2012


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The Impossible

Based on a true story, Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts play a husband and wife on vacation with their kids when the 2004 tsunami hits. They fight to survive after they are separated in the disaster.

Dec. 21, 2012


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Paramount Pictures

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is a former major in the U.S. Army Military Police digging deep into a case of military sniper who shot five people. Cruise wears a leather jacket, drives a Mustang and shows off his toned abs as he does what he does best—taking down the bad guys. Based on Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels.

Dec. 21, 2012


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This Is 40

It's the Knocked Up sequel! This time funnyman director and writer Judd Apatow zeros in on Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) as they navigate mid-life. Jason Segel, Melissa McCarthy, Megan Fox, Chris O'Dowd and more round out the cast.

Dec. 21, 2012


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On the Road

Seems like the big-screen adaption has been on a never-ending trip to the theaters. The Beat Generation is brought back to life by Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley. Oh, ya may have also heard that the Twilight starlet bares her boobs in a steamy sex scene that she says she is "really proud" of.

Dec. 21, 2012


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Les Misérables

Merry Christmas! The Broadway musical finally gets the big-screen treatment with Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne belting out the show's unforgettable songs.

Dec. 25, 2012


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The Guilt Trip

An inventor (Seth Rogen) goes on a road trip with his mom (Barbra Streisand) to sell his latest contraption. Here's hoping director Anne Fletcher can makes us laugh with Rogen and Streisand (or maybe we should call them Rosand?) as she did with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in The Proposal.

Dec. 25, 2012


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Parental Guidance

Child's play! Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play a couple who are taking care of their three grandchildren when their mom has to go away for work. (Dec. 25)

 


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Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino follows up Inglourious Basterds with a drama about a slave-turned-bounty hunter starring Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio. "It's highly entertaining as all of Tarantino films are," says the movie's Kerry Washington. "But it's also challenging because it's dealing with what some people call 'America's original sin.'"

Dec. 25, 2012

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