Movies
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How 'Akira' rewrote the rules for animeJul 16, 2018 6:00 am - We're protesting in the streets, bracing for the next violent attack and debating how civil to be in confronting a government some say is wildly overreaching. There's a ...
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Lakeith Stanfield: An actor at home in the surrealJul 15, 2018 7:00 am - The weirder it gets, the more Lakeith Stanfield looks right at home. It was Stanfield, as the bodysnatched Andrew Hayworth, personifying the nightmare of Jordan Peele's ...
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'Hotel Transylvania 3' tops charts, 'Skyscraper' stumbles
Jul 15, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" has checked into the No. 1 spot at the box office in its opening weekend and left the Dwayne Johnson action th...
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Solo 'Black Widow' project catches up to wave of female-led superhero filmsJul 14, 2018 7:27 am - It's been more than a decade since Hollywood tried to find success with two especially high-profile, female-led superhero movies: Halle Berry's "Catwoman" and Jennifer G...
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'Ant-Man and the Wasp' director likes life as Marvel's humble superhero comedyJul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - Thirty-five films throughout cinema's history have grossed more than a billion dollars, including two Marvel movies this year. But none has ever been a live-action comed...
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Hollywood history shows Thai cave rescue movie was inevitableJul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - The jokes, groans and eye-rolls started on Twitter even before the announcement - replete with tongue-in-cheek casting predictions. "How soon is too soon to start boycot...
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The good-ness of 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'Jul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - The reviews are correct. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the new documentary about pioneering children's host Fred Rogers, is very good. Technically good, but also capital-...
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Rob Reiner's newspaper drama 'Shock and Awe' fails to live up to its nameJul 12, 2018 6:00 am - “Shock and Awe”- ★ ½ In “Shock and Awe,” Woody Harrelson and James Marsden play Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who during the run-up to the Iraq War in 2002 and 200...
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'Eating Animals' a disturbing journey into world of factory farming, slaughterhousesJul 12, 2018 6:00 am - “Eating Animals” - ★ ★ ★ There are many disturbing phrases bandied about in “Eating Animals,” the Natalie Portman-narrated documentary about the morality of meat-e...
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Dwayne Johnson scales crazy challenges in action-packed 'Skyscraper'Jul 11, 2018 11:00 am - “Skyscraper” - ★ ★ ½ In the ludicrously trippy disaster movie “Skyscraper,” Dwayne Johnson's ex-cop family man Will Sawyer climbs up about 100 stories to reach a Hong K...