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The final frontier? Not a chance

This undated publicity film image released by Paramount Pictures shows, Zoe Saldana, left, as Uhura and Zachary Quinto as Spock in a scene in the movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness," from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Zade Rosenthal)

The warp drives on the USS Enterprise are, as usual, on the verge of meltdown in "Star Trek Into Darkness." Luckily, the entertainment propulsion system for the sci-fi saga is roaring full throttle.

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'Star Trek' actors' friendship spills off the bridge into real life

"Star Trek" has always been about more than a spaceship crew hurtling through the cosmos -- over the decades, the sci-fi series in all its forms has tackled earthly issues such as race, gender and the Vietnam War.
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A Mother's Day tribute to the best movie moms

A tribute to some of the best mothers in the movies.
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'Peeples' takes 'Fockers' formula for an African-American spin

"Peeples" is an African-American "Meet the Parents" that slips funnyman Craig Robinson into the Ben Stiller role. Casting the musically minded Robinson in this formula comedy about screwing up your first encounter with your potential in-laws is like replacing Stiller's Greg Focker with Jack Black.
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DiCaprio's Gatsby outshines Luhrmann's movie

Jazzy, fizzy and often quite fun, Baz Luhrmann's "Pretty Good Gatsby" takes F. Scott Fizgerald's Great American Novel out for a sometimes dazzling, always irreverent spin.
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Luhrmann says his inspiration for using modern music is F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baz Luhrmann didn't want to answer the question.
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The 25 hottest summer movies

This summer's style tip from Hollywood: Dark is the new light.
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Iron Man's a little winded, but still able to show his mettle

The third "Iron Man" movie, the finale to this trilogy of Marvel marvels, is the jokiest and cutest of them all. Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gets a kiddie sidekick, for Pete's sake.
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McConaughey samples his vagabond past to play a man named 'Mud'

In Hollywood, they call it "on the nose" casting. And if ever you doubted that Matthew McConaughey was the perfect pick to play the yarn-and-myth spinning rural romantic title character in Jeff Nichols' Southern Gothic melodrama, "Mud," he puts your mind at ease the way Mud himself would -- with...
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Colin Firth flees to a new life as 'Arthur Newman'

Lots of people want to escape their past. Wallace Avery wants to escape his present. Which he does, pretty much before the opening credits are over in "Arthur Newman."
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'Pain & Gain' an action comedy on steroids - literally

Once you've destroyed Pearl Harbor and let robots rampage across the Earth a few times, your whole idea of a buddy picture has got to be warped. Elephantiasis sets in, even on a caper comedy with daft characters and silly situations.