Movies
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Even Simon Pegg can’t save unfunny ‘Fantastic Fear’Feb 06, 2014 5:43 am - Mini-review: ‘A Fantastic Fear of Everything’ Simon Pegg is a very talented comic actor, but you would never guess that in this claustrophobic, strained stream-of-consci...
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Inert direction hampers 'The Outsider'Feb 06, 2014 5:00 am - Mini-review: ‘The Outsider' The action thriller “The Outsider,” written and directed by Brian A. Miller, suffers from several handicaps, the first being “Property o...
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Reel life: 'Fantastic Fear' a bit of a bummerFeb 06, 2014 5:00 am - Mini-review: 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything' Simon Pegg is a very talented comic actor, but you would never guess that in this claustrophobic, strained stream-of-consc...
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Scholars chase Nazi art booty in Clooney's 'Monuments Men'Feb 06, 2014 5:00 am - The real star of George Clooney's syrupy World War II drama "The Monuments Men" turns out to be Alexandre Desplat's score, mood-setting music constantly affirming the em...
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Pop culture comedy follows the 'Lego' brick roadFeb 06, 2014 5:00 am - What happened? Did the entire crew making "The Lego Movie" misplace their Ritalin and Adderall supplies? That might explain why "The Lego Movie" is such an intense, cra...
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Officials: NY suspect had Hoffman’s cell numberFeb 05, 2014 8:03 am - NEW YORK — At least one of four people taken into custody on drug charges during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had t...
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Real 'Monuments Men' records go on display in D.C.Feb 05, 2014 4:45 am - WASHINGTON — When art historians saw Paris fall to the Nazis in World War II, they immediately realized Europe's vast monuments, art, cathedrals and architecture were at...
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Hoffman among thousands of addiction victimsFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - LOS ANGELES — Philip Seymour Hoffman suffered from a chronic medical condition that required ongoing treatment. An admitted drug addict who first sought professional hel...
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NY police: Hoffman’s heroin didn’t have additiveFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - NEW YORK — Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman fans mourn, tout his talentFeb 03, 2014 8:00 am - NEW YORK — He was only 46, busy as ever and secure in his standing as one of the world's greatest actors. There were no dissenters about the gifts and achievements of Ph...