Movies
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Full list of Sunday's Oscar winnersFeb 28, 2016 12:00 am - Picture: "Spotlight" Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu, "The Revenant" Actress: Brie Larson, "Room" Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio,"The Revenant" Supporting actress: Alicia Vika...
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DVD previews: 'Creed,' 'Room,' 'The Danish GirlFeb 27, 2016 6:22 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, March 1: "Creed" (PG-13, 133 minutes, MGM/Warner): Sylvester Stallone won a Golden Globe and is nominated for an Oscar for ...
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Oscar animation nominees talk facing their fearsFeb 27, 2016 6:22 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Ale Abreu wasn't confident about his animated film "Boy and the World" after screening it for an audience for the first time. The imaginative par...
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Diversity must play a role in Oscar show, but not the leadFeb 26, 2016 4:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Sunday's Academy Awards promise a three-way race for best picture, performances by Lady Gaga, Sam Smith and the Weeknd, and the likelihood of first Oscar w...
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Dann Gire predicts Sunday's Oscar winnersFeb 25, 2016 10:00 pm - Let's get right to the most confounding, hair-pulling, anybody's guess, head-scratching, anything-goes Oscar category of the year: Best Picture. Nine times out of the la...
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'Gods of Egypt' plagued with poor plotting, cheesy effectsFeb 25, 2016 4:00 pm - Could the timing be any worse for a movie with a diversity problem as extensive as "Gods of Egypt"? Only two days before #OscarsSoWhite Sunday, a movie comes out set in ...
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Numbers reveal movies with diverse casts make more money
Feb 25, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A UCLA study has found that films and television shows whose casts roughly reflect the nation's racial and ethnic diversity post the highest box offic...
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Reel life: Former Hoffman Estates actor on the big screen this weekendFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Actor and former Hoffman Estates resident Jeff Glover can be seen as a police officer in the crime thriller “Triple 9” opening this weekend...
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Great cast juggles confusing plot in ambitious 'Triple 9'Feb 25, 2016 4:00 am - “Triple 9” has everything going for it, and that's its biggest handicap. This tale of gangsters and crooked cops in Atlanta has got a murderer's row of acting talent — C...
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'A War' puts the madness in a gray areaFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Danish army commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbaek), the protagonist in Tobias Lindholm's courtroom drama "A War," should have requested a competent trial attorney. "A W...