Movies
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'Taken 3' races to a choppy finishJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - One has certain expectations of a “Taken” movie — really, of almost any Liam Neeson action film — but especially this popular franchise, which, as advertised on the post...
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'Grand Budapest Hotel' leads British film award contendersJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON - Comic confection "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is the surprise front-runner for the British Academy Film Awards, while English acting darlings Eddie Redmayne and B...
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Despair runs deep in grand 'Leviathan'Jan 08, 2015 4:45 am - Desperation runs through the frozen ground and swelling seas in "Leviathan," director Andrey Zvyagintsev's devastatingly beautiful and grand tale of man's ever deepening...
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Anderson's period gumshoe mystery comes up short on cluesJan 08, 2015 4:45 am - The intrusive, omniscient voice-over narration from a minor, unexplored character who couldn't possibly know all the information she imparts? Sorry, I'm not a fan. Joaqu...
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Reel life: 'Cannibal Holocaust,' 'Shining' get screeningsJan 08, 2015 4:00 am - Film critics notebook: The special effects depicting violence in 1980's "Cannibal Holocaust" proved to be so realistic that director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on cha...
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'Predestination' twists, turns through paradoxical plotJan 08, 2015 4:00 am - Mini-review: 'Predestination' Film critics love the descriptive words "trippy" and "brain-gouging" (more the former than the latter), and they will never be better emplo...
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Jack O'Connell up for Rising Star at British academy awardsJan 07, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON - Jack O'Connell, who played American athlete and war survivor Louis Zamperini in Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken," has been nominated for a Rising Star award by Brita...
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Benedict Cumberbatch, fiancee Sophie Hunter expecting babyJan 07, 2015 12:01 am - LONDON - There's good news - again - from "Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch. The actor and theater director Sophie Hunter announced in November that they were engaged...
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Downey, 'Big Bang' win big at People's Choice AwardsJan 07, 2015 12:01 am - Plainfield native Melissa McCarthy also scores at People's Choice Awards
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For Dardennes and Cotillard, cinematic love at first sightJan 06, 2015 4:45 am - NEW YORK - The great reservoir of the Dardenne brothers' nine feature films has been their Belgium hometown, to which they've returned again and again to plumb the daily...