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"There's no crying in baseball": Tom Hanks' memorable line from A League of Their Own will be forever preserved in the National Film Registry.

The 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2012

The annual selections by the Library of Congress span more than a century of American filmmaking

 
Vince Vaughn played Santa's immature younger brother in Fred Claus... to little acclaim.

7 awful Christmas movies that flopped

Even films that are explicitly merry don't always succeed in spreading cheer

 
Paul McCartney accompanies a children's choir on Saturday Night Live one day after the Newtown shooting.

10 ways the entertainment industry is being sensitive to the Connecticut massacre

Touching musical tributes, delayed film premieres, and more

 
Claire Danes and Damian Lewis: "The writers could have killed [Nicholas] Brody, but they didn't," says Alan Sepinwall at HitFix.

Where Homeland can go from here: 4 theories

The second season of Showtime's critically-acclaimed CIA drama has drawn to a close with a finale that hints at a new direction

 
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes three interminable hours just to reach chapter seven of Tolkien's book.

5 reasons The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a disappointment

The first of Peter Jackson's long-awaited prequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy is here — but some critics are resisting this journey back to Middle-Earth

 

The 2013 Golden Globes nominations: Winners and losers

Your comprehensive guide to the biggest surprises and snubs heading into the 70th annual Golden Globe awards

 
Known Oscars-disser Joaquin Phoenix was snubbed in the Best Actor category for his role in The Master.

The 2013 Screen Actors Guild nominations: 5 surprises

The nominees list offers unexpected news — both good and bad — for Joaquin Phoenix, Javier Bardem, and Zero Dark Thirty

 
Fantastic Four: Coming (back) to a theater near you in 2015.

6 superhero franchises that deserve to be rebooted

From Daredevil to Green Lantern, a lot of comic-book heroes need a second chance in Hollywood. But this time, let's do it the right way

 
Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as Superman, hits the big screen in June.

WATCH: The new Man of Steel trailer

In our newest glimpse of Superman's return to the big screen, a troubled Clark Kent debates just what kind of man he's going to be

 
Jon Stewart doing his best Michele Bachmann impersonation.

Why Jon Stewart almost quit The Daily Show

The behind-the-scenes dynamics at the late-night show weren't always as fun as you might think

 
Tom Cruise stars in the upcoming sci-fi thriller Oblivion, when the days of humans living on Earth is only a memory.

WATCH: The trailer for Tom Cruise's new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion

In the futuristic film, coming next April, Cruise plays one of the last men on Earth — not that there's much left of it

 
Playing for Keeps: Critics were not attracted to hunky Scottish star Gerard Butler.

The 10 worst-reviewed movies of 2012

Last weekend's Gerard Butler flop Playing for Keeps earned a measly 2 percent of positive reviews from critics — but it isn't even the most critically savaged film of 2012

 
Peter Venkman. Carl Spackler. Garfield. And now FDR: Bill Murray has played 'em all.

Hyde Park on Hudson: Does Bill Murray shine as FDR?

A new presidential biopic features the former Ghostbusters star as America's heroic, polio-stricken president... really

 
Chris Pine as Captain Kirk in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness: Will Kirk's nemesis be the ever-wrathful Khan?

WATCH: The epic new Star Trek Into Darkness teaser

A first glimpse of the breathlessly anticipated sequel focuses on a creepy villain played by Benedict Cumberbatch as he wreaks havoc on Earth

 
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was filmed in the New Zealand countryside, where 27 animals reportedly died during production.

The Hobbit: Inside Hollywood's global sausage factory

Labor disputes and accusations of animal cruelty are marring the blockbuster film

 
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