Movies
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An Oscar for 'Deadpool'? Foul-mouthed, irreverent superhero movie has been getting some love on awards circuitJan 06, 2017 5:00 am - At one point in Marvel's R-rated superhero movie "Deadpool," the titular character pauses in the midst of graphic bloodshed and flashes back to a memory of - there's no ...
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Scorsese's 'Silence' not golden, but a paradox of passionJan 05, 2017 5:00 am - Martin Scorsese, perhaps the most Catholic of all American filmmakers, wrote an intro for a 2007 English edition of Shusaku Endo's 1966 novel “Silence” in which he chara...
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Life lessons, dark fantasy fuse in wondrous 'A Monster Calls'Jan 03, 2017 10:00 pm - One morning at exactly 12:07 (the importance of the time comes clear much later), a giant tree outside young Conor O'Malley's bedroom window magically comes to life, tea...
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Box office top 20: 'Rogue One,' 'Sing' lead holiday frame
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" remained the number 1 film at the box office for the third straight week, as the "Star Wars" spinoff maintained its holida...
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'Rogue One' tops box office for third straight weekend
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - The new year at the box office is starting where 2016 left off: with Disney on top. The "Star Wars" spinoff "Rogue One" led the box office for the third strai...
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A German comedy is the international sensation of 2016Jan 02, 2017 5:00 am - NEW YORK - "Make sure they know to play it loud," the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, "Toni Erdmann." Since its rollicking debut at the Can...
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In '20th Century Women,' Bening found freedom in the unknownJan 02, 2017 5:00 am - WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - In 1979, Annette Bening was 21-years-old. A year earlier she had moved from San Diego to San Francisco to study classical drama. She remembers i...
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'Hail, Caesar!' foresaw how a liberal mash-up of culture and politics faltered in 2016Jan 01, 2017 6:14 am - In "Hail, Caesar!," Joel and Ethan Coen's movie about classic Hollywood, studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) finds himself in a pickle when his biggest star, Baird W...
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Animation, sequels and superheroes propel box office recordJan 01, 2017 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — A forgetful fish, infighting superheroes and some intergalactic rebels led the North American box office in 2016, which, with an estimated $11.2 billion in...
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Larrain's 'Neruda' a playful, thrilling story of Chilean poetDec 29, 2016 5:00 am - Chilean director Pablo Larrain is on a hero's quest to destroy the conventional biopic it seems. He turned the post-assassination days of Jacqueline Kennedy into an atm...