Movies
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DVD previews: 'Lego Movie,' 'Grand Budapest Hotel'Jun 14, 2014 5:30 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, June 17: "The Lego Movie" (PG, 94 minutes, Warner): This toy-inspired family film is an homage to the spirit of the iconoc...
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Angelina Jolie honored by Queen Elizabeth IIJun 14, 2014 1:01 am - LONDON - Angelina Jolie can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The Oscar-winning actress has been named an honorary dame - the female version of a knight - by B...
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Truly great TV: Tragedy and 'Thrones'Jun 13, 2014 5:15 am - The best film I've seen this year didn't play in 3,000 theaters, employ big-name movie stars and droves of visual effects artists or air on a premium cable channel. It's...
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'Obvious Child' breeds Fertile ground for reflectionJun 12, 2014 6:00 am - YouTube #8220;Obvious Child,#8221; a provocative romantic comedy from new writer-director Gillian Robespierre, opens with Stern doing one of her bits, giddily sharing th...
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'Dragon 2' soars into matured territoryJun 12, 2014 6:00 am - You thought it was tricky to train a dragon? It's even trickier to take a much-admired animated film and make a sequel that feels satisfying and worthwhile. And it's ha...
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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...