This one is a bit of a head-scratcher. While it may not be the cinematic reunion that fans of the gangster movie genre had in mind (“Goodfellas 2: Electric Boogaloo”?), any project involving both legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and his “Goodfellas” star Ray Liotta is sure to attract attention... Even if that project is something like “Campus Life,” an indie science fiction film starring a cast of mostly unknown young actors.

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“Campus Life” concerns a group of college students who witness one of their classmates vapourize before their eyes, and must discover the reason why before they suffer the same fate. The film is headlined by “Chernobyl Diaries” star Jesse McCartney, but the real draw (at least if the trailer is to be believed) appears to be the director and star of the acclaimed 1990 crime saga “Goodfellas.” Scorsese appears in the film as a doctor or scientist of some kind (he’s wearing a lab coat!) and Liotta appears to be playing a bartender. Neither is credited on the film’s IMDB page.

The engine-revving first trailer for Ron Howard’s upcoming Formula 1 movie “Rush” made a big splash on the web on Monday.

Following the real-life rivalry between F1 drivers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), “Rush” looks like a break-neck blast. But while the fictional drivers may be setting records in the movie, the racing genre hasn’t exactly had the best track record at the box office in recent years. Can Howard and Hemsworth, along with rising stars Brühl and Olivia Wilde, help “Rush” avoid fate of other Hollywood auto racing films?

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Beloved Disney icon, singer, and actress Annette Funicello passed away this week at the age of 70, following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. One of Disney’s original Mouseketeers and star of the long running Beach Party movie series, Funicello was the model of the all-American girl next door in the late 1950s and early '60s.

Here are five facts you may not have known about the late Mouseketeer.

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Every Hollywood actor has a role or a movie in their past that they’re probably not very proud of. For Scottish actor and “300” star Gerard Butler that less-than-stellar role came courtesy of an equally ill-advised movie called “Dracula 2000,” a critical turkey and box office bomb released in (you guessed it) the year 2000. Movie critic James Berdardanelli summed up “Dracula 2000” thusly:

"Of all the indignities to have been visited upon Dracula during the past century (including being the ‘inspiration’ for a cereal and a 'Sesame Street' character, and being lampooned by Mel Brooks), none is more unsettling than what has happened to the world's most famous vampire in ‘Dracula 2000.'"

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Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher – one of the most important and divisive figures in recent political memory – died Monday morning at the age of 87. Thatcher is probably best known to modern movie audiences thanks to Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning portrayal of the controversial PM in 2011’s “The Iron Lady.” But Thatcher’s real cinematic legacy stretches back to when she was still in office.

As Britain’s first female prime minister, as well as one of its longest serving (her Conservative government won an impressive three consecutive terms from 1979 to 1990), Thatcher presided over – and many would say contributed heavily to – a very tumultuous time in British history.

The United Kingdom of the 1980s was a society sharply divided along class lines. Plagued by high unemployment, social strife, and conflict both at home (Northern Ireland) and abroad (the Falkland Islands), many would attribute the U.K.’s many difficulties during this time chiefly to Thatcher’s harsh political and economic policies. It is generally held that these policies helped revitalize the struggling British economy in the long run, but that progress came at a high social and cultural price which can still be felt to this day.

Here are three films that exemplified – or were a reaction to – Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

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Admirers of the late movie critic Roger Ebert, who passed away Thursday at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer, can take some solace in this little bit of news: “Life Itself,” a Steve James-directed documentary based on Ebert’s bestselling memoir of the same name, will be completed despite the legendary critic’s passing.

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When news broke on Thursday about the death of legendary film critic Roger Ebert yesterday, tributes began flooding in from filmmakers, actors, moviegoers, and fans from around the world.

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The author, screenwriter, reviewer, “At the Movies” co-host, and Illinois native was a favourite son of the Windy City, writing for the Chicago Sun Times from 1967 until his death. However, another city also held a special place in its heart for Ebert: Toronto.

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With almost every great slasher flick and horror movie getting the Hollywood remake treatment, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to reboot the cult “Evil Dead” franchise. Thankfully, though, the folks doing the rebooting this time out are the same people behind the originals: director Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man,” “Oz the Great and Powerful”) and series star Bruce Campbell. Raimi and Campbell are producers on the upcoming “Evil Dead,” a blood-soaked, ultra-gory re-imagining of the 1981 cabin-in-the-woods movie being directed by up-and-comer Fede Alvarez (“Panic Attack’).

While Alvarez’s “Evil Dead” is not a sequel to Raimi’s original movies (“The Evil Dead,” “Evil Dead II,” and “Army of Darkness”), there are a few things you should know if you’re a newcomer to the series.