Movies
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'Rewind' deserves a closer look on DVDJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - "Be Kind Rewind" - I'm amazed that "Be Kind Rewind" didn't click with audiences. This gentle fable from music video auteur Michel Gondry is warm, touching and funny....
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Marvel 'Hulks' out with $54.5M opening weekend
Jun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "The Incredible Hulk" was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-scree...
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No insight in 'Savage Grace'Jun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Tom Kalin's "Savage Grace" boasts top-shelf performances, well-crafted camera work, a literate script and a fact-based story that includes betrayal, adultery, three-way ...
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'War' hasn't a clue about how to be a funny dark comedyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It would have been nice if John Cusack's new movie "War, Inc." had worked. A would-be savage satire of the mostly botched war in Iraq, pitched in the dark comic mode of ...
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'Fugitive Pieces' lacks dramaJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - "To live with ghosts requires solitude," observes Jakob Beer, the tortured novelist hero of Jeremy Podeswa's plodding dramatic interpretation of Anne Michaels' novel. A...
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Video game violence, mayhem make 'Hulk' not so incredibleJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Hardly anyone liked Ang Lee's character-driven 2003 "Hulk" movie with Aussie star Eric Bana, so French action director Louis "The Transporter" Leterrier took over for th...
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'Happening' disappointing in the endJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - It begins with two women sitting quietly on a bench in New York City's Central Park. Above the din of traffic noise and the rising wind, a scream. "Did you hear that?" t...
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Cusack speaks out against McCain
Jun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a pair of videos saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. ...
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Newman friend says actor treated for cancer
Jun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Paul Newman, the legendary actor and philanthropist, is battling cancer, his longtime neighbor and business partner said Wednesday. Newman, 83, has r...
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We've gotten smart: Movie's spy gadgets do exist
Jun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The shoe phone on TV's "Get Smart" wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used anywh...