Movies
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Going gaga for football seasonAug 22, 2013 6:00 am - They live for the applause MTV's annual train wreck known as the Video Music Awards airs at 8 p.m. Sunday. Those Moonman statues mean next to nothing, but the show will...
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Nostalgia a killer for guys at 'World's End'Aug 22, 2013 6:00 am - Want another reason why movie marketers and their lethal trailers constitute the No. 1 menace to viewers' total enjoyment of modern motion pictures? Here it is. I succ...
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'You're Next' improves as body count risesAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - "You're Next" is a nasty little slasher film that starts poorly but gets better once most of the cast has been butchered. Indie film figures Joe Swanberg (director/writ...
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Digital era threatens tenuous future of drive-insAug 21, 2013 8:17 am - LANCASTER, Ohio — Through 80 summers, drive-in theaters have managed to remain a part of the American fabric, surviving technological advances and changing tastes that p...
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Characters below ‘mundane’ in dopey fantasy adventureAug 20, 2013 3:38 pm - “Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” begins with a Brooklyn girl named Clary Fray who goes to a mysterious nightclub with a friend and witnesses a horrific killing commit...
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Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87Aug 20, 2013 9:00 am - DETROIT - He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime. Pretty much every novel Elmore Leonard wrote from the mid-1980s on was a best-se...
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1D goes 3-D in boy band’s debut feature filmAug 20, 2013 6:00 am - LONDON — In the tradition of great music movies, One Direction’s feature-film debut has sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — just without the sex or the drugs. The Morgan Spur...
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15 years later, Oprah is back in the moviesAug 19, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The day before Oprah Winfrey began shooting “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” she was at the White House, talking to the president. Her access to 1600 Pennsylvania ...
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'The Butler' serves box-office success at No. 1Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is serving up success at the box office. Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boo...
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DVD previews: 'Epic'Aug 17, 2013 6:00 am - Here is a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Aug. 20: “Epic” (PG, 110 minutes, Fox): This CGI adventure, loosely based on children's author and illustrator William Joyce's...