Movies
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Dann Gire's best filmmakers of 2016 - will Oscar voters agree?Feb 02, 2016 12:00 am - The best of 2016 films The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its Oscar nominations on Jan. 24. In the meantime, here come my select best contribution...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' dethrones 'Revenant'
Feb 01, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Kung Fu Panda 3" punched "The Revenant" back to its second place spot over the weekend. The animated sequel brought in a robust $41.3 million - which...
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Nate Parker's 'Birth of a Nation' a powerful achievementFeb 01, 2016 4:15 am - PARK CITY, Utah - Nate Parker left a successful Hollywood acting career behind to make the movie that mattered most to him. It took seven years for Parker to bring the s...
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Werner Herzog on ski jumping and filming in North KoreaJan 31, 2016 6:28 am - PARK CITY, Utah - The first time Werner Herzog came to Sundance a little over a decade ago with "Grizzly Man," he asked that the Festival prepare the Olympic-sized ski j...
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'Kung Fu Panda 3' tops box office; 'Finest Hours' flounders
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DVD previews: 'Bridge of Spies,' 'Truth'Jan 29, 2016 10:00 pm - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Feb. 2: “Bridge of Spies” (PG-13, 142 minutes, DreamWorks/Disney): Steven Spielberg's real-life Cold War drama stars Tom Ha...
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When Oscar's big movies are coming homeJan 29, 2016 4:54 am - Most of this year's best picture nominees are still playing in theaters, but you can watch five of them at home before the big night. Two of the films vying for the top ...
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Third time a charmer for the animated 'Kung Fu' fantasiesJan 28, 2016 5:00 am - The last two animated comedies I've seen - "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip" and "Norm of the North" - served up such willful awfulness that I fear they might ha...
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'Son of Saul' makes the human cost of Nazis the focusJan 28, 2016 4:45 am - Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes' hard-hitting, gripping, gimmick drama - and it is a marvelously effective gimmick - uses a single 40 mm. lens to focus exclusively on t...
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Cheap jokes, hammy acting infest alien invasion comedy 'Lazer Team'Jan 28, 2016 4:00 am - The cheap and cheesy science-fiction comedy "Lazer Team" sets its intergalactic sights so lowbrow that its infantile humor and wide-eyed, hammy acting almost succeed as ...