Movies
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Binoche comes to terms with her age in 'Clouds of Sils Maria'Apr 18, 2015 7:00 am - "Clouds of Sils Maria" is the type of movie you'll want to rehash later. Olivier Assayas' drama is intriguingly ambiguous and strangely constructed, and there seems to b...
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Disney pumps up 'Star Wars' in new trailer with Harrison FordApr 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Walt Disney Co. unveiled a trailer for the new "Star Wars" film Thursday, releasing a clip featuring series star Harrison Ford to fans at a four-day convention in Anahei...
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Reel life: Writer wanted to get 'Machina' science rightApr 16, 2015 6:30 am - 'Ex' director, sci-fi guy British novelist Alex Garland, writer of Danny Boyle's science fiction thrillers "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine," celebrates his directorial deb...
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'True Story' a tale of Faustian temptation and rude redemptionApr 16, 2015 6:00 am - "True Story" tells a fabricated version of a true story about a New York Times reporter fired for writing a fabricated version of a true story. Weird, isn't it? We can a...
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'Ex Machina' looks at what it means to be humanApr 16, 2015 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'Ex Machina' "Can machines think the way humans do?" is the question a cop asks Benedict Cumberbatch's mathematician Alan Turing in the drama "The Imitation...
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Disney's thrilling 'Monkey Kingdom' an epic animal adventureApr 16, 2015 5:00 am - "Monkey Kingdom" a mere Walt Disney nature documentary? This movie plays more like a simian version of "Game of Thrones." A ruthless monarch with three sisters as his wi...
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'Unfriended' lags more than it clicksApr 15, 2015 11:00 pm - "Unfriended," a horror thriller from the Russian producer-director team of Timur Bekmambetov and Leo Gabriadze, is part of a long, proud tradition of visual gimmickry pr...
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'True Story,' 'Monkey Kingdom' among Dann Gire's movie picksApr 15, 2015 9:00 am - Coming Friday: Dann Gire reviews the journalistic chiller “True Story” with best buds James Franco and Jonah Hill playing it straight from the heartless. Plus, he checks...
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OCC to screen film on what it means to be a man in AmericaApr 13, 2015 11:00 pm - What it means to be a man in today's society is the focus of free screenings of the documentary "The Mask You Live In" at Oakton Community College. The film, which debut...
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York alum builds career as the funny 'big guy'Apr 13, 2015 11:00 pm - A bunch of things in Ken Hudson Campbell's suburban childhood inspired his career as a comedian and actor: Mad magazine, National Lampoon, "Saturday Night Live." And, e...