Movies
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DVD previews: 'Gone Girl,' 'Walk Among the Tombstones'Jan 10, 2015 5:45 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Jan. 13: "Gone Girl" (R, 149 minutes, Fox): The challenge for any director bringing Gillian Flynn's addictive 2012 whodunit, "G...
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Actor Rod Taylor dies in Los Angeles at 84Jan 09, 2015 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Rod Taylor, the suave Australian actor whose brawny good looks made him a leading man for films ranging from Westerns to romantic comedies, has died. He wa...
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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...