Movies
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'Signal' a sci-fi thriller big on style, short on senseJun 12, 2014 6:00 am - Imagine a full-blown art house science-fiction thriller photographed with such luminous, pristine symmetry that Stanley Kubrick would love it. Add to that a touch of a "...
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Reel life: Catch special 'Friday the 13th' screaming, er, screeningJun 12, 2014 5:30 am - Film critics notebook: • In my hometown of downstate Charleston, the local Will Rogers Theater would often run a special bill of horror movies on Friday the 13th. So, I ...
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'Supermensch' a doc about colorful agent Shep GordonJun 12, 2014 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon' Shep Gordon has to be a documentary maker's dream subject, one so colorful and astonishing no screenwriter could po...
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Powerful 'Night Moves' builds on sense of dreadJun 12, 2014 5:30 am - "Night Moves" isn't so much a thriller as thriller-ish. That's not to say that the movie - which centers on a plot by a group of environmental activists to blow up a hyd...
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'Jump Street' sequel misfires a lot, but hits a few funny bonesJun 12, 2014 5:00 am - "22 Jump Street" could be the greenest comedy sequel of the new century so far, a movie that takes recycling crime caper clichés to absurdist extremes. It comes from Phi...
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Harrison Ford injures ankle on set of 'Star Wars'Jun 11, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Harrison Ford has been injured on the set of "Star Wars: Episode VII" and has been taken to a hospital. Disney said the 71-year-old actor was being treated fo...
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Tatum, Hill talk comic chemistry, '22 Jump'Jun 11, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — The comic duo of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill began with an intentionally bad idea. Hill called up Tatum: “So I have this probably terrible idea, but I want...
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Blunt reveals new toughness in 'Edge of Tomorrow'Jun 09, 2014 4:30 am - LOS ANGELES - What's more scary, fighting aliens with Tom Cruise or singing in front of Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp? Both brought butterflies to Emily Blunt's stomach, ...
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Writer John Green breaks in to Hollywood with 'Fault'Jun 08, 2014 4:30 am - NEW YORK - When "The Fault in Our Stars" landed on bookshelves more than two years ago, John Green's enthusiasm was nonexistent for a screen version of his story featuri...
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Spokesman: Morgan 'more responsive' after surgeryJun 08, 2014 1:01 am - TRENTON, N.J. - Federal investigators on Sunday were looking into commercial trucking and other safety issues in the wake of a deadly chain-reaction crash on the New Jer...