Movies
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Amy Ryan in 'Gone Baby Gone'Oct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Not long ago, Amy Ryan earned a nickname from her friends, thanks to all the gut-wrenching dramatic roles she was taking on. "They started calling me 'Crying Ryan,' beca...
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DVD packages superb acting of 'Volcano,' rich featuresOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - "Under the Volcano: The Criterion Collection" -- The Criterion brand on a DVD is as powerful as the little blue box from Tiffany: You know that whatever's inside has to ...
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Not the same-old screamsOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - It happens every Halloween. You dig out some scary movies for an old-fashioned fright fest at home. You turn the lights down, fire up the DVD player and pop in "Hallowee...
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Cliches suck the narrative life out of vampire taleOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - TV ads claim "30 Days of Night" presents "a new vision of the vampire." Well, yes. Technically, these exact vampires have never been seen on the screen, although they ma...
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Siblings Ben and Casey Affleck team up to be 'Baby' brothersOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - HOLLYWOOD -- While shooting "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" in Alberta, Canada, Casey Affleck got a pitch from a first-time director who wan...
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Tortured consciencesOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The subject of American-approved political torture couldn't be more timely in Gavin Hood's "Rendition." Yet, "Rendition" settles for effective when it could have been as...
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Drama burns for Oscar consideration, not real emotionOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Even the title screams "Pretentious drama created for the sole purpose of snagging Oscar nominations!" -- doesn't it? "Things We Lost in the Fire" traffics in misery, pa...
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Movie guideOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - KEY: Four stars means superior; three stars means good; two stars means average; one star means poor. D for drug use, L for language, N for nudity, S for sexual situ...
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Sound jazzes up 'Singer,' movie industryOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - In 1927, Warner Brothers Studios took a huge gamble by adding sound to its film "The Jazz Singer." The public was used to seeing silent films, and the introduction of so...
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Branagh's 'Sleuth' makes viewers feel a little connedOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Six reviews. No waiting. • In "Sleuth," Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1972 thriller with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the icy set decor and antiseptic productio...