Movies
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Creative bankruptcy fuels 'Death Race' remake 'Death' a race with audience-pandering pablumAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - You know the movie industry must truly be creatively bankrupt when it remakes a futuristic 1975 thriller set eight years in our past. Paul Bartel's "Death Race 2000" sta...
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Clichés fly in sincere, moving underdog storyAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Audiences hungry to get their fix of sports movie clichés won't be disappointed by this sincere and winning tale based on the true story of the first female quarterback ...
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Ambitious, but muddled high school musical comedy shake-spears artAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The sheer idea of a movie called "Hamlet 2" turns out to be the funniest thing about this new comedy, although an edgy, full-blown high school musical number with the ir...
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Funny 'Bunny' hops to it as female empowerment comedyAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Who woulda thunk that a comedy called "The House Bunny" could become the sweetest, purest "summer movie" of the summer? Columbia Pictures had such little faith in Fred W...
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Comic 'Rocker' rocks the aged with fun and affectionAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I saw a press screening for "The Rocker" five weeks ago, and the best thing I remember about it was a scene where Rainn Wilson sticks his head through the sun roof of a ...
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The Bourne offspring: Matt Damon a fatherAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - MIAMI _ Matt Damon's wife Luciana gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. The baby's name is Gia Zavala Damon, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen told The As...
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'Street Kings' a grim but entertaining cop thrillerAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - "Street Kings" - Crime writer James Ellroy has spent his career exploring the demonic side of the City of Angels. His bloody fingerprints are all over "Street Kings,...
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'Thunder' rumbles past 'Dark Knight' with $26 million open
Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- It took four of Hollywood's biggest stars to take down Batman. The DreamWorks-Paramount comedy "Tropic Thunder" -- with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Ja...
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Animated prequel an inferior clone of a real 'Star Wars' filmAug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - If George Lucas' new feature "Clone Wars" were only a 98-minute teaser for the new "Star Wars" animated TV series premiering Oct. 3 on the Cartoon Network, it would just...
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Warner Bros. takes hits for 'Harry' delay