Movies
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'Rogue One' tops box office for 4th straight week
Jan 08, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Star Wars" is still dominating the movie universe, with "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" leading the box office for a fourth straight week. The intergalacti...
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After 80 years of tragic deaths, parents stayed alive in 2016 animated filmsJan 08, 2017 6:00 am - For one year, at least, we got a reprieve. In reversing a trope's troubling body count, 2016's major awards-contending animated films managed to stop icing our parents. ...
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'La La Land' sweeps politically charged Golden GlobesJan 08, 2017 12:00 am - "La La Land" rolled through a Jimmy Fallon-hosted Golden Globes that mixed the expected, Champagne-sipping Hollywood celebration with often-voiced concern over president...
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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
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'Rogue One' tops box office for third straight weekend
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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...