Movies
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Battles against bulge and antibioticsMar 09, 2015 6:00 am - With documentaries like "Food, Inc." and "Fed Up" having made the rounds in recent years, it's tempting to think that the last word has been uttered on how Americans...
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Box office top 20: 'Chappie' leads anemic weekendMar 08, 2015 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Neill Blomkamp's R-rated robot film "Chappie" topped the box office with a lackluster $13.3 million debut, according to final figures Monday, while th...
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'Chappie' tops slow weekend, 'Unfinished Business' tanksMar 07, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - Neither a hyper-intelligent robot nor Vince Vaughn could save the box office this weekend, which is down 38.5 percent from the same weekend last year, acco...
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Author appearances: Veronica Roth comes to the Tivoli March 14Mar 07, 2015 6:00 am - • Children's book author Dav Pilkey and award-winning illustrator Dan Santat present their new book, "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs From Saturn,"...
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DVD previews: 'Night at the Museum,' 'Low Down'Mar 07, 2015 4:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, March 10: "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" (PG, 100 minutes, Fox): Relocating the action from New York's Museum of Nat...
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Not much intelligence, artificial or otherwise, in 'Chappie'Mar 05, 2015 10:00 pm - In “Chappie,” a dystopian robot thriller from South African director Neill Blomkamp (“Elysium”), we're introduced to an awkwardly stiff humanoid with something funny-loo...
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Gire: Film society screens 'Two Days'Mar 05, 2015 5:00 am - Film critics notebook: • The After Hours Film Society presents the Oscar-nominated drama “Two Days, One Night,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 9, at the Tivoli Theatre,...
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Why we don't love the MTV Movie Award nominationsMar 05, 2015 5:00 am - With the Oscars behind us, you may have assumed that the film awards season was over and done. You'd be wrong. The MTV Movie Awards, which will air April 12 with host Am...
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What happens to society in 'Final Hours'?Mar 05, 2015 4:45 am - Mini-review: 'These Final Hours' You have to hand it to Australian filmmakers for having the edge on the edge. Following Aussie director Jennifer Kent's stylized reinven...
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This 'Marigold Hotel' definitely second-bestMar 05, 2015 4:30 am - Fans of the original "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" will take great pleasure in catching up with the lovably flawed, rapidly aging Brits who arrived at that Indian oasis, ...