Movies
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DVD previews: 'Tammy,' 'Jersey Boys'Nov 08, 2014 5:30 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 11: "Tammy" (R, 96 minutes, Warner): Tammy (played by Plainfield's Melissa McCarthy) is a graceless, thoroughly unpleasant...
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Disney stirs 'Star Wars' fans with 'Force Awakens' titleNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - Walt Disney Co. has dangled another morsel of information about its coming "Star Wars" film, revealing the name of the seventh installment and eliciting a range of react...
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Reel life: 'Interstellar' is not the place for IMAXNov 06, 2014 5:00 am - Taken to the IMAX? The IMAX company didn't finance, market or distribute Christopher Nolan's new science-fiction drama “Interstellar.” Yet, the company is, accordi...
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Edet Belzberg's excellent 'Watchers' tells a horrible taleNov 06, 2014 4:45 am - Mini-review: 'Watchers of the Sky' Anyone possessed with even a fleeting sense of social justice should be amazed and appalled by what he/she sees and learns in Edet Bel...
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Appealing actors can't lift struggling 'Low Down'Nov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Mini-review: 'Low Down' Jazz musicians struggling with personal demons and drugs have become a subgenre on their own. “Bird,” “Man With the Golden Arm” and “Lady Si...
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Nolan's 'Interstellar' a trippy, twisty tale of saving humankindNov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Christopher Nolan shoots for the stars in his wildly ambitious, visually explosive sci-fi epic “Interstellar.” And he succeeds, relativity speaking. In “Interstellar,” N...
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Superhero conventions deflate Disney's 'Big Hero 6'Nov 06, 2014 4:15 am - As the Disney-Marvel mash-up "Big Hero 6" moves toward its big-action finale, the images will look strikingly familiar. A supervillain wreaks havoc. A portal to another ...
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VHS tapes bring trouble in 'Jessabelle'Nov 06, 2014 4:00 am - Mini-review: 'Jessabelle' The title "V/H/S" has already been snapped up, but it would have been an ideal title for "Jessabelle," a ghost tale that hinges on messages a n...
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'Of Mice and Men' in suburban theaters ThursdayNov 05, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - There were tears and hugs in July after the final performance of the Broadway run of "Of Mice and Men." Then everyone came back two days later to do it all ov...
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Warner Bros. to start cutting more than 1,000 jobsNov 05, 2014 5:12 am - Time Warner Inc. began cutting more than 1,000 jobs at its Warner Bros. film studio, according to a person familiar with the matter, as Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey B...