Movies
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'Lego Movie' blocks top spot at box officeFeb 16, 2014 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - "The Lego Movie" built a huge lead on top of the weekend's new releases at the box office. In its second outing, the Warner Bros. animated film featuring t...
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Danes hoping for fourth Oscar with 'The Hunt'Feb 16, 2014 4:45 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark - When Danish director Thomas Vinterberg wrote the script for "The Hunt" - one of this year's contenders for Best Foreign Language Film - he pictured...
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60 years an actor, June Squibb takes a bowFeb 16, 2014 4:30 am - NEW YORK - June Squibb recently ducked into a Times Square office above the theaters she spent decades knocking about, taking any decent part she could get. "We ran aro...
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'Slave' named best film at UK movie awardsFeb 16, 2014 12:00 am - LONDON — The force of “Gravity” was strong at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday — but it was unflinching drama “12 Years a Slave” that took the top prize. Steve ...
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DVD previews: 'Afternoon Delight,' 'Zaytoun'Feb 15, 2014 4:45 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday: “Afternoon Delight” (R, 93 minutes, Cinedigm): You know Rachel, or someone like her. At school, she's the busy mother volun...
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Jared Leto's awards show tip: Keep snackingFeb 15, 2014 4:01 am - LONDON - Jared Leto says there's only one thing that gets him through the endless film awards season: A packed lunch. The 42-year-old has already won a Screen Actor's Gu...
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'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gayFeb 15, 2014 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Ellen Page, who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the 2007 film "Juno," has come out as gay. The 26-year-old told a Las Vegas audien...
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Short doc aims to inspire dancing against violenceFeb 14, 2014 4:45 am - PARK CITY, Utah - When the anti-violence organization V-Day announced plans to gather a billion people worldwide on Feb. 14 in a dancing demonstration to end violence ag...
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Not all escapist fare is for kidsFeb 14, 2014 4:30 am - Thanks to Harry Potter, "Lord of the Rings" and Hollywood's insistence that no big-budget movie be rated R, imaginative fantasy and sci-fi films have become synonymous w...
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Comically overstated romantic fantasy not one to loveFeb 13, 2014 5:00 am - Ever arrived really late to a movie and then spent a half-hour trying to figure out who the main characters are and what they're doing? That's how I felt watching Akiva ...