Movies
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'Birdman' tops Spirit Awards; Keaton takes best actorFeb 21, 2015 12:00 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A day before it may soar at the Oscars, "Birdman" spread its wings at the 30th Independent Film Spirit Awards, winning best picture, best actor fo...
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More best-picture nominees come homeFeb 20, 2015 5:00 am - Two movies expected to loom large over Sunday's Academy Awards telecast on ABC are now available for purchase and rental. “The Theory of Everything” and “Birdman” ar...
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'DUFF' an outdated, dubiously relevant messFeb 19, 2015 5:00 am - In the era of Mo'ne Davis and the groundbreaking "Like a Girl" campaign, "The DUFF" feels like crumbs from a dated, hopelessly retrograde table. Based on Kody Keplinger'...
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Skokie show makes for an inert movie musicalFeb 19, 2015 4:30 am - The defining moment in Richard LaGravenese's movie adaptation of the off-Broadway musical "The Last Five Years" occurs when successful young author Jamie (Jeremy Jordan)...
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Cross-country drama 'McFarland, USA' outruns sports formulaFeb 19, 2015 4:00 am - The most galvanizing event in "McFarland, USA" occurs when a group of celebratory Hispanics comes under attack by knife-wielding assailants. The first thing the Hispanic...
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'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' goes back to the future — and the pastFeb 18, 2015 10:00 pm - At the end of the first, often crudely funny time-travel comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine,” when Craig Robinson's character cracked that, “This better be the last time my (b...
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'McFarland, USA' among Dann Gire's weekend movie picksFeb 18, 2015 9:00 am - In Friday's Time out! and online Thursday: Film critic Dann Gire reviews “McFarland, USA,” an inspirational, fact-based sports underdog drama starring Kevin Costner as t...
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'Boyhood' or 'Birdman'? Predicting best picture Oscar gives Dann 'Whiplash'Feb 17, 2015 10:00 pm - Let's start with Oscar's slam-dunks, shall we? Five-time nominee Julianne Moore will win the best actress Academy Award Sunday for her portrait of a university professo...
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Best-picture nod for 'Selma' caps big year for black womenFeb 17, 2015 5:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Three black women released movies in 2014, more than ever before in a single year. And one of them is a contender for the motion picture academy's top priz...
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Shades of green: How studio roped audiences into seeing 'Grey'Feb 16, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - When Universal bumped "Fifty Shades of Grey" from August 2014 to Valentine's Day, 2015, it seemed like a cheesy gimmick. Now that box office results are in...