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Disney’s “Big Hero 6″ – Their first animated Marvel adaptation
Rumors started to swirl last summer, but now it’s official – Disney Animation is adapting the Marvel comic Big Hero 6, which marks the first animated effort since Disney’s buyout of Marvel. Never heard of it? Me either. According to director Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh), that’s kind of the point.
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Here’s your chance to catch Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness back to back!
As I’m sure most of you are aware, next week sees the opening of Star Trek Into Darkness, the much anticipated follow up to 2009′s box office and critical success, Star Trek. In addition to our awesomely fantastic midnight showing of Star Trek Into Darkness on Wednesday (May 15) night, the powers that …
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Come see a movie, then see a movie being filmed!
So I am sure that most of you are aware that this week, some A-list movie stars are right around the corner from us. As one may naturally assume, the employees at our humble little cinema are slight movie buffs (and by ‘slight’, of course, I mean MASSIVE), so we’d be pleased as punch to …
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In movie world…Summer starts in May
We will be starting off May correctly with Iron Man 3 (May 3rd) and the following week we will be getting The Great Gatsby (May 10th). You must have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of these movies (not that I judge, I had a pet rock once), buuuut if you haven’t …
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Pain & Gain – 4 differences between the movie and the real life story
Tonight at CinemaSalem marks opening night of Michael Bay’s new flick, Pain & Gain. This “low budget” passion project tells the story of three Miami based body builders who want more out of life, leading them to kidnap, torture, and murder innocent people for a quick buck. The movie is so absurd that, even …
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“The Grandmaster” Trailer
Wong Kar Wai, the Chinese director best known for films like In The Mood for Love and Chunking Express, is stepping a bit out of his comfort zone for his next film and doing a full on martial arts flick. A martial arts film as only he can direct, obviously. Titled The Grandmaster…
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Spring Cleaning
Its that time of year again when we go through all of our posters and give away what we don’t need. This year we even have a few posters from the Salem Film Festival. If you want a poster all you have to do is be the first one to ask for it. We won’t …
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A man who needs no introduction, but a lot more credit…
Patton Oswalt has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. He had some great words to say after what occured in Boston on Monday (you can read them on his Facebook page). The great thing about Oswalt is that he can give a great speech about a serious topic and make …
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On the Road
Coming to the Screening Room on April 26th is On the Road. It is the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel that is titled the same. A young writer named Sal Paradise meets up with Dean and Marylou, who are the go with the flow type of people. They go on a cross country trip …
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“42″ Opening on Friday
It shouldn’t have taken this long, but a major movie studio has finally stepped up to the plate and given us a Jackie Robinson biopic, titled 42, and CinemaSalem is opening it on Friday. 42 stars Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey, and tells the life …
