Movies
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Classic car chases film better with classic carsMar 14, 2014 5:45 am - For the past two decades, “Need for Speed” has made a successful name for itself in the digital world on computer and TV screens. For 2014, the video game has been compl...
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High-octane action fuels 'Need for Speed'Mar 13, 2014 6:00 am - It takes a lot for a film based on a video game to impress a crowd these days, given the dazzling advancements in gaming technology. But "Need for Speed," based on the h...
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Fiennes registers fine comic performance in Anderson's latestMar 13, 2014 5:00 am - One of the many surprises in Wes Anderson's rich, layered and quirkily entertaining new film, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” is the emergence of a new comic actor, one with...
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'Almost Human' made of strong parts that don't fitMar 13, 2014 5:00 am - Writer/director/photographer Joe Begos loves campy, exploitation midnight movies, maniac massacres, sci-fi films and graphic horror tales so much, he stuffed a whole bun...
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TV sleuth back in fine form in film version of 'Mars'Mar 13, 2014 5:00 am - Canceled by the CW in 2007, the cult-fave mystery series "Veronica Mars" completed its third season with an open-ended episode. Revived for the big screen, the gumshoe d...
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'Particle' science makes for a doc that feels like a filmMar 13, 2014 5:00 am - You don't normally think of documentaries as being material for a film franchise, but the smart and ultimately suspenseful "Particle Fever" certainly qualifies. It posse...
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'Noah' will not debut in much of Muslim worldMar 13, 2014 1:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Officials across much of the Muslim world said Thursday that the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film “Noah” featuring Russell Crowe as the a...
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'Grand Budapest' director's films shine on Blu-rayMar 12, 2014 5:45 am - Wes Anderson - the Texas-born director of this week's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" - brings distinctive humor and a colorful widescreen pallette to his tales of familial c...
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Family film festival features 44 films from 22 countriesMar 10, 2014 11:00 pm - The International Children's Film Fest, the first touring festival of world-class children's film programs, launches the 2014 festival season at the Round Lake Beach Cul...
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'Gravity' director Alfonso Cuaron turns to TVMar 09, 2014 1:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron was looking for an anti-"Gravity" follow up to his blockbuster space film, and he found it with a rare excursion into...