Movies
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Now at your library: Streaming movies, musicOct 02, 2013 6:43 am - SEATTLE — There’s a new source to stream movies and other digital content, and it’s not a tech company with tens of thousands of titles. It’s something more familiar, an...
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‘Raging Bull’ rights fight gets hearing at U.S. Supreme CourtOct 01, 2013 11:05 am - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a dispute over the rights to the 1980 Oscar-winning movie “Raging Bull,” accepting an appeal from the daughter of a man who worked ...
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Veteran Hollywood producer A.C. Lyles diesSep 30, 2013 5:44 pm - LOS ANGELES — A.C. Lyles, who rose from mail boy to producer during a career at Paramount Studios that lasted more than three-quarters of a century, has died at age 95. ...
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Oscar-winning filmmaker backs out of Clinton docSep 30, 2013 12:50 pm - NEW YORK — A filmmaker who was making a documentary about Hillary Clinton for CNN said Monday that he is backing out of the project because few people would cooperate wi...
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‘Cloudy’ sequel tops weekend box officeSep 29, 2013 5:27 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” slurped up the box office. The animated Sony sequel featuring the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris opened in first...
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Howard makes a believable racing film with ‘Rush’Sep 29, 2013 6:00 am - Ron Howard admits he was no racing aficionado when he set out to make the Formula One thriller “Rush,” chronicling the tense 1976 world championship battle between playb...
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DVD previews: ‘The Croods,’ ‘This Is the End’Sep 28, 2013 6:00 am - Here’s a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Oct. 1: “The Croods” (PG, 92 minutes, Fox): Think of this as the back story of “The Flintstones,” before that modern Stone Age ...
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Multitalented Gordon-Levitt kicks it up a notchSep 28, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — When Joseph Gordon-Levitt was 12 years old and shooting “Angels in the Outfield,” one of his co-stars, Tony Danza, asked him if he’d like to hang out during s...
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‘Cloudy’ sequel lacks intelligence of originalSep 26, 2013 4:45 pm - Experienced chefs will tell you that changing one or two crucial ingredients in a recipe can turn a delectable meal into a flavorless dish. A similar switch deflates the...
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Metallica's Hammett hosting film screening in SchaumburgSep 26, 2013 7:00 am - Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will be at the AMC Streets of Woodfield 20 movie theater in Schaumburg early Friday morning to introduce a screening of “Metallica Throu...