Movies
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Kevin Bacon a high point as twisted, corrupt sheriff in 'Cop Car'Aug 13, 2015 6:00 pm - "Cop Car" might merely have been a solid, satisfying excursion into genre-film territory - mostly courtesy of Kevin Bacon, who plays a corrupt rural sheriff in pursuit o...
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Engaging 'Compton' chronicles controversial rappers' riseAug 13, 2015 5:30 am - “Straight Outta Compton,” a drama about the rap group N.W.A., boasts instant audience appeal. Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, who helped create West Coast...
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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' shocking, but not for shock's sakeAug 13, 2015 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Actress Marielle Heller's blisteringly honest directorial debut, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," begins with 15-year-old Minnie...
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Reel life: Do you have a favorite 'U.N.C.L.E.' opening?Aug 13, 2015 5:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Each of the four seasons of NBC's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." opened with a different arrangement of Jerry Goldsmith's classic spy theme. So ...
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Spy series film not your father's 'U.N.C.L.E.'Aug 11, 2015 12:00 am - Instead of delivering an actual "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." motion picture - based on NBC's espionage TV series - director/writer Guy Ritchie and his "Sherlock Holmes" wri...
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DVD previews: 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Unfriended'Aug 10, 2015 11:00 pm - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Aug. 11: "Hot Pursuit" (PG-13, 87 minutes, Warner): An uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the...
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Ice Cube's son becomes him in 'Straight Outta Compton'Aug 10, 2015 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - O'Shea Jackson Jr. was determined to play his father, Ice Cube, in "Straight Outta Compton." Not only does the 24-year-old look uncannily like his dad, but...
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Hollywood takes on troubled minds with slate of summer filmsAug 10, 2015 5:30 am - LOS ANGELES - The 1941 film "The Wolf Man" presents Larry Talbot's transformation from man to wolf as a form of schizophrenia. So little was known about mental illnesses...
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'Gemma Bovery' teases out a baker's fantasy life with his neighborAug 06, 2015 6:30 am - Mini-review: 'Gemma Bovery' I think I have this straight: Anne Fontaine's sleek-looking "Gemma Bovery" is narrated by a middle-aged French baker named Martin (Fabrice Lu...
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Documentary focuses on heated Vidal-Buckley debatesAug 06, 2015 6:00 am - In August of 1968, William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal faced off in a series of 10 televised debates on ABC. Divided between the Republican National Convention in Miam...