Movies
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Box office top 20: Shyamalan's 'Split' stays no. 1 again
Feb 06, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller "Split" led the box office for the third straight weekend thanks to a pair of underperforming debuts. The hor...
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Jenkins & Chazelle: The young directors at center of OscarsFeb 06, 2017 5:00 am - NEW YORK - At the forefront of this year's Oscar race are two filmmakers in their 30s with seemingly limitless careers ahead of them: Damien Chazelle, the 32-year-old wu...
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'Tanna' director recounts path from tiny island to Oscar nodFeb 06, 2017 5:00 am - SYDNEY - The premiere of "Tanna," Australia's first Oscar nominee for a foreign language film, was as far from Hollywood glamour as one can get. The guests gathered not ...
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Deadline approaching for Elk Grove film festival entriesFeb 05, 2017 10:00 pm - The deadline for submitting to the 2017 CinéStudent Film Festival is Monday, Feb. 20. Now in its third year, the CinéStudent Film Festival, hosted by Elk Grove High Sch...
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'Zootopia' wins at Annie Awards, looks poised for OscarsFeb 05, 2017 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - "Zootopia" won best animated feature and took home a leading six awards at the 44th Annie Awards, setting up the Disney release as the clear favorite at th...
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Sunday picks: Tia Carrere hosts 'Wayne's World' screening in WoodridgeFeb 05, 2017 6:15 am - Party on, Tia! Grammy Award-winner and actress Tia Carrere makes special appearances for screenings of 1990s film hits "Wayne's World" and "True Lies" today at the ...
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Shyamalan's 'Split' leads box office for third weekend
Feb 05, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - M. Night Shyamalan's multiple-personality thriller "Split" led the box office for a third-straight week, an unusual streak for a low-budget horror film. Accor...
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Super Bowl alternatives: 5 football-free ideasFeb 05, 2017 6:00 am - Looking to do something on Sunday other than watching the Super Bowl? Good luck. Most malls are closed on Sunday night and many live theaters don't schedule shows during...
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Oscar-nominated 'I Am Not Your Negro' an urgent narrative of race in AmericaFeb 03, 2017 5:00 am - Somewhat deep into the searing and utterly necessary documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” director Raoul Peck overlays audio from a 1960 U.S. Government film “The Land We ...
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Juvenile prison documentary struggles for larger pointFeb 03, 2017 5:00 am - The miscreants alluded to in the title of the documentary "They Call Us Monsters" are a trio of teenage boys, incarcerated in a California juvenile detention facility fo...