Movies
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Schwimmer saves weak 'Run' with late heroicsMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Given its pedestrian dialogue, exhausted, formulaic plot and lame sight gags of men falling down, "Run Fat Boy Run" should be miles and miles away from a sweet and endea...
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Cornish gains attention in contrived 'Stop-loss'Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - The most intriguing aspect of "Stop-Loss" has nothing to do with the U.S. government's controversial policy of returning weary troops to the Iraq war as many times as it...
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Dry script puts bite on teen horror filmMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - "Teeth" is the most freakish, over-the-top female empowerment movie I've ever witnessed. It begins on a reserved PG-rated level, then slowly ramps up to PG-13 before sho...
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Posthumous buzz: Ledger's death fans Joker mania in 'Dark Knight'Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Heath Ledger's frenzied reinvention of the Joker had fans and colleagues buzzing. His dreadful clown face was seen online by millions, and stood as the go...
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Drawing a blank: Basic intelligence missing from '21'Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - "21" is a film about six MIT students learning how to count cards and then take down Vegas for millions at blackjack. The one thing you need for that is massive intellig...
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An American classic gets lavish DVD treatmentMar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - "Bonnie and Clyde" (two-disc special edition) -- They walk down a small-town street, two impossibly beautiful young people in the throes of love-at-first-sight. We s...
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Asian horror remake covers same old ground -- ho humMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - This week's rote Asian horror remake comes to us from Thailand. The original "Shutter" was a big domestic hit there in 2004 and was already remade last year in India. No...
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'Drillbit Taylor' not so sharpMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The slyest joke in Owen Wilson's new comedy "Drillbit Taylor" belongs strictly to movie trivia geeks. When three high school freshmen interview potential bodyguards to p...
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Small-town poetry doesn't mask the madness in 'Snow'Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Small towns are often romanticized and sentimentalized in the movies, turned into fantasies of goodwill and overly fond memories that sometimes make the homey visions of...
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New on DVDMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - These DVDs were released this week: "I Am Legend" It is 2012, and New York City is deserted. Dr. Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the only human alive. A virus has mu...