Movies
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Documentaries put faces on cruel reality of marketsOct 05, 2013 11:00 pm - For the past 20 years, my assignment at The Washington Post has been to explain and interpret arcane and complicated economic developments to general readers in ways tha...
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With new film, Ja Rule looks ahead after prisonOct 05, 2013 6:00 am - ATLANTA — Ja Rule, who recently spent nearly two years behind bars for illegal gun possession, landed a role in a new movie because screenwriter Galley Molina empathized...
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Paul Giamatti takes on Zapruder in 'Parkland'Oct 04, 2013 1:00 pm - TORONTO — When Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder set up his Bell and Howell home movie camera to film President Kennedy's visit, he had no idea he would capture the mo...
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Jane Fonda to receive AFI achievement awardOct 04, 2013 8:44 am - LOS ANGELES — Jane Fonda will receive the American Film Institute’s 42nd Life Achievement Award, one of Hollywood’s most prestigious career honors. “Jane Fonda is Americ...
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Bullock calls 'Gravity' her 'best life decision'Oct 04, 2013 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Sandra Bullock says making the lost-in-space movie “Gravity” with director Alfonso Cuarón was “the best life decision I think I ever made.” Cuaron coaxed ...
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'Runner Runner' goes nowhere with intriguing setupOct 03, 2013 6:00 am - A story like the one at the heart of "Runner Runner" - about a young American gambler who gets sucked way above his head into the criminal doings of a big-time offshore ...
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'Bad Milo' takes theater of the absurd to the extremeOct 03, 2013 6:00 am - Mini-review: "Bad Milo" Theater of the absurd usually works better in an actual live theater than it does in the more literal medium of motion pictures. Such is the ca...
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'Parkland' a tasteless, moribund account of JFK assassinationOct 03, 2013 6:00 am - The assassination of President John F. Kennedy probably ranks as the most traumatic and galvanizing moment in the history of the baby boomer experience. Peter Landesman...
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'Gravity' hero once lived in Lake ZurichOct 03, 2013 5:30 am - *The Lake Zurich mentioned in the headline may not necessarily be the Lake Zurich you know. And you have to read almost all of this column before you even get an explana...
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Cinematically engaging 'Gravity' an immersive survival thrillerOct 03, 2013 5:00 am - Prepare to be visually wowed and dramatically cowed by a gripping survival thriller all about a feisty female astronaut from Lake Zurich. Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" sim...