Movies
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'Redacted' lacks emotional impact in recalling real wartime atrocityNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - "Redacted" takes on a grisly challenge: to tell the story of the gang rape and murder of a girl by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. From the opening frame, the audience is dreadin...
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'Cholera' a love story for all timesNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - Hollywood sometimes goofs when it tries to translate great novels into movie form ("The Great Gatsby," for example). Not with "Love in the Time of Cholera." This entert...
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Reitman has jump on Cody's 'Body'Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the respective director and writer of Fox Atomic's buzzed-about feature "Juno," are joining forces again. Reitman and producing partner Da...
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Mailer's son to produce new 'Naked'Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - John Mailer has secured the film rights to "The Naked and the Dead," his father Norman Mailer's 1948 novel. Mailer intends to produce the project along with Evanly Schin...
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'Beowulf' sexed up, animated and lifelessNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - Hold the phone! I thought this was supposed to be Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf," not Madame Tussauds. The photo-realistic, computer-generated characters in Zemeckis' bold t...
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Get your fill of Paul in 'The McCartney Years'Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - Paul McCartney, a British singer/songwriter/musician, became internationally famous in the 1960s as a member of the Beatles. As a solo artist, he has sold millions of re...
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'Girl Next Door' a full-throttle horror tale with a messageNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - • I have no idea who would actually want to watch a teenage girl be raped, beaten and tortured to death in a basement. That's the subject of Gregory Wilson's"Jack Ketchu...
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New 'digital 3-D' format challenging ImaxNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - When Warner Bros. released Robert Zemeckis' film "Polar Express" in 2004, anyone who wanted to see it in 3-D had to go to an Imax theater. Now Zemeckis' "Beowulf" is com...
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Beowulf: Plenty of action, but story feels hollowNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Hold the phone! I thought this was supposed to be Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf," not Madame Tussaud's. The photo-realistic, computer-generated characters in Zemeckis' bold ...
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Not all stories about Paris are trueNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - You heard it on the radio Tuesday morning, read about it on your favorite news Web site and probably talked about it with your friends at work -- and not a single one of...