Movies
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Plan to 'Escape' from this prison sellOct 17, 2013 6:00 am - "You don't look dat smahht," Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) says to Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone). "Needer do yew!" Breslin replies. Oh, great. With "Escap...
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Cumberbatch boosts fact-based 'Fifth Estate' to tolerable dramaOct 17, 2013 6:00 am - Benedict Cumberbatch has recently played a spaced-out supervillain in "Star Trek Into Darkness," and appears as a relatively civilized slave owner in the new "12 Years a...
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Chicago film festival to honor Bruce DernOct 16, 2013 10:46 am - The Chicago International Film Festival is honoring actor Bruce Dern with its Career Achievement Award this year. Dern will receive the award Wednesday at the festival’s...
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An updated ‘Carrie’ for the digital ageOct 16, 2013 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — “Carrie” is going viral. In the new take on the supernatural coming-of-age story out Friday, beleaguered high school student Carrie White’s torment doesn’t...
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Post-'Fruitvale,' Michael B. Jordan wants it allOct 14, 2013 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Michael B. Jordan wants it all — from a “Rocky” spinoff to a role in the next “Star Wars” movie. The 26-year-old actor is in discussions for key roles in ...
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A season of Cumberbatch starts with ‘Fifth Estate’Oct 14, 2013 6:00 am - TORONTO — It was the day before shooting began on “The Fifth Estate” when Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was trying on blond wigs for the last time, heard back from Julian ...
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‘Gravity’ beats Hanks’ ‘Captain Phillips’ at box officeOct 13, 2013 5:30 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Gravity” won’t be held down. The Warner Bros. astronaut adventure directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney landed in the ...
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‘Captain Phillips’ features Minn. Somali actorsOct 12, 2013 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS — When Barkhad Abdi and three other amateur Somali actors from Minnesota learned they had won major roles in the new Tom Hanks movie, “Captain Phillips,” the...
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DVD previews: ‘The Heat,’ ‘Pacific Rim’Oct 12, 2013 6:00 am - Here’s a look at DVDs coming Tuesday, Oct. 15: “The Heat” (R, 117 minutes, Fox): The team of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy looks on paper to be a sure-fire formula...
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Director secretly shoots feature at Disney parksOct 11, 2013 12:03 pm - LOS ANGELES — As a kid, Randy Moore was haunted by Disney World, where he made an annual trip during summers with his dad. So as an adult, and a filmmaker, Moore wanted ...