This weekend, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol premiered the opening sequence of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, and offered the film’s theatrical trailer. Currently the opening sequence is still only in certain Imax theaters, but the trailer is now online, and offers glimpses at new cast members Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, along with returning cast members Gary Oldman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine. Check it out…

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When Journey to the Center of the Earth came out in 2008, it didn’t attract much attention, but ended up doing steady business, eventually making over $100 Million at the box office and even more internationally. So for the follow up Journey 2: The Mysterious Island almost everyone for the original was save Josh Hutcherson and now there’s a trailer for the film, which introduces new cast members Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Luis Guzman and Michael Caine. Check out the trailer…

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I’m often inclined to give family movies a pass (as evidenced by my favorable review of Mr. Popper’s Penguins), if only because sometimes you’ve got to drag the family to a movie theater just to get them all to shut up for 2 hours.  Don’t worry, I sympathize here for you.  If you needed this critic’s permission to pack up the family and go to the multiplex, here it is:  Cars 2 is the ticket to buy this weekend.  It’s a big, colorful, noisy spectacle that will please broad audiences looking for a good time, especially small children.

But this is a Pixar film!  They’ve made some of the most emotionally resonant films of the last decade!  It’s impossible not to compare Cars 2 to the rest of their catalogue, and as soon as you begin to, it breaks down.  Read the rest of the review (and more car puns!), after the jump…

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Disney and Pixar have really revved up the publicity for this week’s release of Cars 2!  Did you see what I did back there, by the way?  That was a hilarious car pun.  Listen, I’m just trying to appeal to the Cars crowd here.  It seemed to work for those studios, at least.  Do you have any idea how popular this franchise is?!  $2 Billion dollars a year in merchandise and licensing!  I’m just trying to follow the formula here.  Anyway, director John Lasseter (pictured above) gathered with the film’s stars, Michael Caine, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Emily Mortimer, and Eddie Izzard, to discuss the new film with members of the press.  Check out some highlights of what was said, after the jump…

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Whenever we need to hear something about a top secret movie, Michael Caine is the person we run to. If he’s involved in any shape or form, he always manages to release some info to the press. He did it for The Dark Knight, he did it for Inception, and now he’s doing it for The Dark Knight Rises. The Academy Award winning actor shared some scheduling info with Empire magazine, which gives us an idea of when the third Batman film will start shooting.

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Earlier this week we saw the first teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar’s upcoming sequel, Cars 2. The film featured the usual suspects, Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy. But there was one new voice that stuck out in particular and it was none other than Michael Caine. And according to a report from Empire, he’s not the only U.K. actor involved with the film.

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Christopher Nolan’s Inception was one of the biggest hits of the summer. Prior to its release we didn’t know what it was and after its release we didn’t know what to make of it. Even though many were left confused one thing is for sure, we liked it, we liked it a lot! If you’ve seen the film, you’re aware that it was left open ended…or was it? Co-star Michael Caine recently opened up about that controversial finale and revealed what really happened when it cut to black.

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What is Gnomeo and Juliet? It’s a new animated film from Touchstone that features an all star cast of actors including James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, and even Ozzy Osbourne. Will they be enough to get asses in the seats or will the trailer suffice? Check it out and judge for yourself…

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Last week we learned that Dwayne Johnson was the new star of the Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Now, according to THR, he’s going to get some much needed help from Oscar winner Michael Caine. The actor, who we last saw in this summer’s Inception, has signed on for a supporting role alongside Johnson, and returning star Josh Hutcherson.

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