Movies
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Epic battles compensate for perfunctory dialogue, narrative bloat in last 'Hobbit'Dec 15, 2014 10:00 pm - "Lord of the Rings" fans can rejoice! "The Battle of the Five Armies" ranks as the best segment in Peter Jackson's second trilogy based on the Middle-earth literary work...
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Movie slumber party: Beds replace theater seatsDec 15, 2014 5:00 am - MOSCOW — A furniture store has taken over a Moscow cinema, allowing theatergoers to enjoy what more closely resembles an enormous slumber party than an afternoon at the ...
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Chicago critics pick 'Boyhood' as best 2014 filmDec 15, 2014 12:01 am - The Chicago Film Critics Association Monday named Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," a project that took 12 years to shoot, as the best movie of 2014. "Boyhood" also took ho...
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'Selma' stars on poignancy and parallels of movieDec 14, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - At Sunday's premiere of "Selma" in New York, the cast acknowledged parallels between their film about the African-American civil rights movement and recent pr...
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At 84, Rowlands dances back onscreen in 'Lessons'Dec 14, 2014 5:45 am - WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Don't get Gena Rowlands started on the bulk of film roles she gets offered these days: a lot of grumpy and ill-fated old women. "I can say, for ...
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No 3-D for director Paul Thomas AndersonDec 14, 2014 4:15 am - During a recent interview, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson reflected on some of the inspirations to his latest movie, the Thomas Pynchon adaptation “Inherent Vice,”...
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'Exodus' conquers the box officeDec 14, 2014 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - After three weeks of box office dominance, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" ceded its reign to "Exodus: Gods and Kings." The biblical epic easily ru...
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DVD previews: 'Magic in the Moonlight,' 'Skeleton Twins'Dec 13, 2014 5:45 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Dec. 16: "Magic in the Moonlight" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Sony): Seeing Emma Stone and Colin Firth try to outmaneuver each othe...
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Ridley Scott talks religious casting, themesDec 13, 2014 5:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Ridley Scott did not originally want to make "Exodus: Gods and Kings." "It's biblical, and I was afraid of all those associations," the 77-year-old filmma...
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'Birdman' flies with Chicago critics' nominationsDec 12, 2014 3:00 pm - Alejandro G. Inarritu's hallucinatory black comedy/drama "Birdman" leads the Chicago Film Critics Assn.'s annual year-end awards recognition with nine nominations, inclu...