Movies
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'Tramps,' new on Netflix, is a rom-com caper with knockabout charmApr 23, 2017 7:20 am - The writer-director Adam Leon made an impressive debut in 2012 with "Gimme the Loot," an antic New York comedy about graffiti artists out for revenge. Leon delivers on t...
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'The Fate of the Furious' laps new films at box office
Apr 23, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "The Fate of the Furious" sped into first place at the box office again, leaving new thriller "Unforgettable" and historical drama "The Promise" in the dus...
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Fewer indie films are opening in theaters, and filmmakers are fine with thatApr 21, 2017 4:10 pm - Show of hands: Who's planning to see this weekend's big movie? That was a trick question. Because with screens getting smaller, choices getting wider and audiences getti...
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'Bates Motel' will go out on topApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - It doesn't have Bernard Herrmann's piercing violins or Alfred Hitchcock's mastery of the camera, but A&E's television series based upon "Psycho" has carved out its own p...
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Disneynature's beautiful 'Born in China' elicits awe - and awwwwwsApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - With "Born in China," Disneynature continues its tradition of ascribing human traits and emotions to wild creatures in ways that flirt with artificiality. Yet the docume...
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Cult fave 'Donnie Darko' returns to big screen in double-bill 4k restorationsApr 20, 2017 6:00 am - Cult pic 'Donnie Darko' lights big screen again Explaining the plot of Richard Kelly's mind-bending, time-shifting, coming-of-rage teen tale "Donnie Darko" would be like...
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Gere's 'Norman' a study in opaque emotions and empathyApr 20, 2017 6:00 am - Richard Gere's natural cool often translates into characters with opaque emotions and empathy, ideal qualities for his enigmatic Norman Oppenheimer in Joseph Cedar's "No...
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Characters get lost in distanced historical epic 'The Promise'Apr 20, 2017 6:00 am - Terry George's distanced historical drama "The Promise" falls so much in love with its own epic grandness that its dramatic heart gets lost among sweeping vistas and end...
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Exquisitely shot 'Lost City' salutes drive for knowledge, explorationApr 20, 2017 6:00 am - "The Lost City of Z" does not involve zombies. But it does offer cannibals, shrunken heads and a jungle obsession so feverish, you might swear you stepped into a Werner ...
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Katherine Heigl makes for forgettable villain in 'Unforgettable'
Apr 20, 2017 1:00 am - Would anyone who works for an online business really not have a Facebook account? The toxic relationship thriller "Unforgettable" hopes viewers won't remember its pesky ...