Movies
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Vatican says 'Avatar' is no masterpieceJan 11, 2010 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the film "Avatar" simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that promote the w...
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Does 'Avatar' reinforces 'the white Messiah fable?'Jan 11, 2010 10:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white -- although the her...
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'Avatar' remains in orbit with $48.5 mil. weekendJan 10, 2010 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- James Cameron's "Avatar" continues to race up the box office charts, remaining No. 1 domestically for the fourth straight weekend with $48.5 million and p...
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Townsend replaced in Marvel Comics tale 'Thor'Jan 10, 2010 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production. Town...
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Hands-on sausage class covers stuffing to smokingJan 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Freebie Sausage-making demo Experience sausage making from start to finish in the hands-on "Stuffin' and Smokin'" program at Kline Creek Farm. Learn how 1890s farm famil...
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'Youth in Revolt' not true enough to feel cleverJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - The ratios of "Youth in Revolt" are out of whack. Steve Buscemi and Zach Galifianakis are barely utilized, yet we get two Michael Ceras. Cera plays Nick Twisp, a precoci...
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Marvel sues to keep Spider-Man, X-Men copyrightsJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Marvel is suing to keep the rights to superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and X-Men. The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan asks a ju...
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Is Reitman's 'Up in the Air' a Scrooge clone?Jan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - I have seen Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" five times now, and I've decided that the rom-com is an update of the Charles Dickens' holiday classic "Christmas Carol" with...
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'Young Victoria' director on Chicago: 'It's lovely'Jan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Normally, an explanation of why people kill people and the secret to writing good historical dramas don't pop up in the same conversation. But a chat with British actor,...
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'Daybreakers' a back-to-basics horror classicJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Finally, someone has created a bloody, blackly comic horror film that deserves to be in the company of Stuart Gordon's Grand Guignol masterpiece "The Re-Animator" and Sa...