Movies
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Disney’s ‘Oz’ bewitches box office with $80M debutMar 10, 2013 4:44 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Oz the Great and the Powerful” clicked with moviegoers. Disney’s 3-D prequel to the classic L. Frank Baum tale “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” debuted in fir...
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DVD previews: ‘Hitchcock,’ ‘Life of Pi’Mar 09, 2013 3:43 am - Coming March 12 “Hitchcock” (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in “Hitchcock,” in which Anthon...
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'Dead Man Down' is lifeless, ludicrousMar 08, 2013 10:00 am - Suspending disbelief is a part of watching most any action film, where bullets fly like birds and mayhem explodes as easily as a shaken soda can. But even in such a cont...
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Disney, Sam Raimi gamble with return to OzMar 07, 2013 12:12 pm - LOS ANGELES — Returning to the mystical land of “The Wizard of Oz” took more than 70 years and several hundred millions dollars. Disney releases its highly anticipated p...
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Fisher to reprise Leia for new 'Star Wars' filmsMar 07, 2013 10:00 am - NEW YORK — Carrie Fisher says she's coming back as Princess Leia for the new “Star Wars” films. The actress confirmed that she'll return as the iconic character in an in...
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'Oz' prequel a banal beginning to beloved fantasyMar 07, 2013 5:00 am - Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful" achieves neither greatness nor power and, for a long time, barely qualifies being "Oz the Mediocre and Adequate." The first hour...
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'No' up to the challenge of Chilean revolutionMar 07, 2013 5:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "No" Pablo Larrain's astute, insightful political drama "No" details Chile's 1988 revolution to topple military dictator Augusto Pinochet, only t...
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Fact-challenged WWII epic drops bomb of its ownMar 07, 2013 5:00 am - "I don't need a history lesson!" General Bonner Fellers tells a Japanese official. Well, he gets one anyway, and so do we with Peter Webber's dry and airless not-so-fac...
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Disney working on standalone Star Wars moviesMar 06, 2013 1:05 pm - PHOENIX — Star Wars fans have more than just Episodes 7, 8 and 9 to look forward to. Disney CEO Bob Iger said at the annual shareholders meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday ...
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Sam Mendes says no to next James Bond filmMar 06, 2013 9:37 am - LONDON — Never say never again? Sam Mendes says he won’t be directing the next James Bond film — but may work on the series again in the future. Mendes has been praised ...