Movies
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''Purge' the urge to ignore scary political horror filmJun 30, 2016 5:30 am - Can a scarifying, ugly and depraved political horror tale be a guilty pleasure if I experience no guilt enjoying its riotously exploitative B-movie influences and tactic...
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'Our Kind of Traitor' serves up old-fashioned spy thrillerJun 30, 2016 5:30 am - "Our Kind of Traitor" boasts a series of onscreen titles that signal a certain kind of thriller - one that hops from Moscow to Marrakesh to London to Paris with the regu...
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'Swiss Army Man' a flamboyantly absurdist comedyJun 30, 2016 5:15 am - The not-quite surrealistic and flamboyantly absurdist "Swiss Army Man" either grabs you and works on its own weird level, or it doesn't. But it surely represents a coura...
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New 'Tarzan' swings as relationship drama, adventureJun 29, 2016 8:00 am - It's a romance, a bromance, a show-mance and a go-go-go-mance. Just when you thought we didn't need another adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' king of the jungle, ...
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Steven Spielberg directs talky, likable 'BFG'Jun 28, 2016 2:00 pm - It begins as the most scrumdiddlyumptious story, then slowly turns into one heck of a whizzpopper. Steven Spielberg's "The BFG," based on Roald Dahl's classic kiddles' b...
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Longer 'Batman v Superman' is better, but still frustratingJun 28, 2016 1:00 am - Most who saw Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill square off in theaters this spring didn't think their 152-minute film needed to be longer. Warner Bros. and director Zack Snyde...
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Box office top 20: 'Finding Dory' swamps 'Independence Day'
Jun 27, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "Finding Dory" topped the weekend North American box office for the second straight week, drowning the underperforming "Independence Day: Resurgence." Ac...
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See 'A Table for Sixty Thousand,' meet director July 15Jun 26, 2016 11:00 pm - The main gallery at Water Street Studios, 160 S. Water St. in Batavia, will host a free screening of the documentary film, "A Table for Sixty Thousand," at 6 p.m. Friday...
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'Dory' overwhelms 'Independence Day,' 'Shallows' surprises
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The "Finding Dory" tidal wave overwhelmed the sputtering sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence," as the alien-invasion redux was drowned out by the popular Pix...
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How Sigourney Weaver and Ed O'Neill were netted for 'Dory'Jun 26, 2016 6:45 am - "Finding Dory" brings back a lot of familiar faces from "Finding Nemo" - but if you've seen the movie, you know some of the newer characters steal the show. One such cha...