Movies
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'The 33' digs deep to represent miners' agonyNov 14, 2015 6:10 am - WASHINGTON - Just before sitting down to discuss "The 33," a new film dramatizing the events surrounding the 2010 Chilean mining accident in which 33 miners were trapped...
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1950s-set 'Brooklyn' is a rich, deeply moving melodramaNov 13, 2015 4:00 am - Soaring, swooning and gently nostalgic, "Brooklyn" takes melodrama to a new level of reassuring simplicity and emotional transparency. The exquisite adaptation of Colm ...
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Reel life: Readers take on 007, 'Peanuts' reviewsNov 12, 2015 5:15 am - Dann: Had to laugh that you could not understand how Bond got the car to Rome, or not having effects from (sorry, spoiler deleted!). What about the other 1,001 things Bo...
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Chilean mining disaster brought to life in 'The 33'Nov 12, 2015 5:00 am - Imagine being trapped 2,300 feet below ground for 69 days. "The 33," an account of the internationally infamous 2010 Chilean mining accident, will help viewers only a li...
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Bryan Cranston elevates political biopic 'Trumbo'Nov 12, 2015 5:00 am - Jay Roach's Hollywood biopic "Trumbo" lapses into simplicity and awkward flourishes, but its core message - everybody loses when people are demonized for their politics ...
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'Love the Coopers' a holiday snow jobNov 12, 2015 4:15 am - The original title for this holiday family comedy had been "Let It Snow," a fitting one, considering that practically every scene is filled with big white flakes. Some o...
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'My All-American' fields inspiring tale of Freddie SteinmarkNov 12, 2015 4:15 am - Inspired by the brief life of Freddie Steinmark (1949-1971), the University of Texas football hero who died at 22 after losing his leg to bone cancer, "My All-American" ...
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Superb journalism film puts 'Spotlight' on abuseNov 10, 2015 4:45 pm - Since 1976, Alan J. Pakula's "All the President's Men" has ruled as the gold standard of journalism motion pictures. Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" now owns that title. Both...
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Is James Bond more moral than a drone?Nov 10, 2015 5:00 am - One of the hallmarks of the last two James Bond movies, "Skyfall," released in 2012, and "Spectre," which arrived in theaters last weekend, has been the way director Sam...
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Avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson calls Glen Ellyn upbringing idyllicNov 10, 2015 4:00 am - Laurie Anderson vividly remembers the night she almost drowned her two little brothers in a Glen Ellyn lake. In her new impressionistic movie "Heart of a Dog," opening F...