Movies
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What’s the next big film franchise?Apr 25, 2013 12:50 pm - LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is banking on the future this summer — and not just a future where Capt. Kirk orders warp speed or Tony Stark builds a better Iron Man outfit. Th...
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Should factual errors detract from a movie's enjoyability?Apr 25, 2013 6:00 am - A phony 'Call' Hi, Dann: I am a media rep for TracFone Wireless and recently read your review of "The Call" (released March 15). I'm writing because I have an important...
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'Arthur Newman' a walk on the mild sideApr 25, 2013 6:00 am - Dante Ariola's studied drama "Arthur Newman" proves to be just about as bland and generic as the title character's name suggests. This movie, written by Becky Johnson, ...
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Michael Bay's latest all 'Pain,' no 'Gain'Apr 25, 2013 6:00 am - Had the Coen brothers or Quentin Tarantino directed "Pain & Gain," we would have been treated to a wildly violent, acidically comic deconstruction of the American dream ...
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'Mud' a lyrical, well-acted coming-of-age taleApr 25, 2013 5:00 am - Matthew McConaughey has been on an extraordinary run of late, turning an impressively versatile hat trick in "Bernie," "Magic Mike" and "Killer Joe" while proving that, ...
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Gilberts filmmaker finds the Force of 'Star Wars' in familiesApr 23, 2013 5:15 am - Cris Macht and his sister had gone with their dad to see the original "Star Wars." All Macht remembers is that they had to wait an hour and half in line to see the movie...
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Fans sink into Cruise’s ‘Oblivion’ in $38.2 million debutApr 22, 2013 8:05 am - LOS ANGELES — Movie fans slipped into “Oblivion” as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. That d...
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Social justice films will be shown at CLCApr 21, 2013 12:21 pm - Two award-winning social justice-related documentaries, “The House I Live In” and “The Invisible War,” will be presented at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the College of ...
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DVD previews: ‘The Impossible,’ ‘Gangster Squad’Apr 20, 2013 5:03 am - Coming April 23 “The Impossible” (PG-13, 114 minutes, Summit/Lionsgate): The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens this fact-based drama...
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Revenge drama ‘Django Unchained’ out on DVDApr 19, 2013 5:02 pm - “Django Unchained” Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award winning film “Django Unchained” is one of his best of his career. Set in 1858 Texas, two years before the Civil...