Movies
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McCarthy, Bullock a perfect pairing of comical cops in 'The Heat'Jun 27, 2013 6:00 am - "The Heat" has no right to be as funny as it turns out to be. Paul Feig's comedy begins with strained, almost embarrassing sight gags, cartoonishly overwritten dialogue...
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'White House' a downer action thrillerJun 27, 2013 6:00 am - The only way that uber-action director Roland Emmerich could have salvaged his sophomoric disaster film "White House Down" would have been to push it into sheer camp and...
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'White House Down' director unfazed by 'Olympus'Jun 25, 2013 4:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Roland Emmerich knows all about disasters. The 57-year-old filmmaker laid waste to several landmarks in “Independence Day,” turned New York into an ice cub...
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‘I Am Legend’ author Richard Matheson dies at 87Jun 24, 2013 8:58 pm - LOS ANGELES — Richard Matheson, the prolific sci-fi and fantasy writer whose “I Am Legend” and “The Shrinking Man” were transformed into films, has died. He was 87. A sp...
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‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas wedsJun 24, 2013 8:57 pm - LOS ANGELES — It’s marriage, episode II for George Lucas. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman confirms the “Star Wars” creator married longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson in a weeke...
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A sequel for Pitt’s ‘World War Z’?Jun 24, 2013 6:51 pm - NEW YORK — Brad Pitt is getting his action franchise after all. A person close to Pitt’s “World War Z” told The Associated Press on Monday that Paramount Pictures is li...
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‘Monsters’ scares up box-office successJun 24, 2013 7:49 am - LOS ANGELES — Turns out zombies and Superman are no match for monsters. Disney’s “Monsters University” is the weekend box-office winner, according to studio estimates re...
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DVD previews: ‘The Call’Jun 22, 2013 5:01 am - Coming June 25 “The Call” (R, 95 minutes, Sony Home Entertainment): In “The Call,” a tense police procedural starring Halle Berry as a besieged 911 operator, the seasone...
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‘Jack’ slays giants on DVDJun 21, 2013 11:30 am - “Jack the Giant Slayer” — Director Bryan Singer has made an excellent film that mixes live action with CGI special effects. He has cleverly updated the story of “Jack an...
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Brad Pitt tries to build a better blockbusterJun 21, 2013 11:00 am - NEW YORK — Brad Pitt wanted to build a better blockbuster. During the years Hollywood shifted toward increasingly bigger spectacles and superhero tentpoles, one of the ...