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  • Robert Redford in 'All Is Lost' Robert Redford in 'All Is Lost' (Photo: Roadside Attractions)At the age of 76, Robert Redford is an actor who still thrives on a creative challenge — and he's been handed a huge one in his latest film "All Is Lost": Redford is the only actor on screen for an hour and forty-five minutes, and he says no more than a handful of words.

    Redford is receiving rave reviews for his work in the shipwreck-themed saga — which debuted this week at the Cannes Film Festival. He plays an unnamed man piloting a yacht in the Indian Ocean, whose vessel is struck by a shipping container, tearing a hole in its hull. When the man

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  • Antje Trauein as Faoro in Warner Bros.' 'Man of Steel'

    Okay, enough with the dreamy, melancholy Terrence Malick-ish tone and imagery of the previous "Man of Steel" trailers. This is a Superman movie, after all, and Superman came from something called "Action Comics," which means there's going to be plenty of, well, action to go along with all the existential angst in director Zack Snyder's bold new reboot.

    Superman (whether he's actually called that or not in this new movie) can fly and punch buildings and shoot heat lasers out of his eyes... and he's got some super-enemies that can do the same thing.

    The new trailer gives us a better look at Krypton's most notorious war criminal General Zod (Michael Shannon) and his gorgeous but deadly companion Faora (Antje Traue). Faora is certainly reminiscent of Sarah Douglas' hot n' deadly Ursa from "Superman II" (1980) and somehow manages to be even more sinister than Zod, with

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  • Greta Gerwig in IFC Films' 'Frances Ha'

    While bromances flourish – doctors, racecar drivers and superheroes bond regularly -- memorable movies about best girlfriends are a rare species. But in that environment, “Frances Ha,” the brilliant black-and-white comic collaboration between star-writer Greta Gerwig (“To Rome with Love”) and writer-director Noah Baumbach (“Greenberg”), is a game-changer.

    Best friends since college, happy-go-lucky Frances (Gerwig) and roommate Sophie (Mickey Sumner), now in their late twenties, share the same bed and the same inside jokes. Frances quips that they are like an old lesbian couple without the sex.

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