Movies
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Stellar cast in charming 'Robot and Frank'Aug 23, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Robot and Frank" At first, the robot in Jake Schreier's senior citizen science fiction drama "Robot and Frank" resembles a 10-year-old actor stuf...
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Nonstop bike messenger action thriller delivers the goodsAug 23, 2012 5:00 am - "Brakes are death!" Wilee the New York bike messenger shouts. David Koepp's stunt-stuffed, time-tricked chase thriller "Premium Rush" apparently believes this, because i...
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'Cosmopolis' a static, stagey glimpse of the futureAug 23, 2012 5:00 am - Lifeless, stagy and lacking a palpable subversive pulse despite the ready opportunities offered by the material, "Cosmopolis" is a stillborn adaptation of Don DeLillo's ...
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Action/comedy 'Hit & Run' races alongAug 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Dax Shepard's redneck NASCAR romance/action comedy "Hit & Run" aspires to overhaul and restart a largely dormant movie genre once gleefully exploited by the winning acto...
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Wheaton filmmakers put suburbs on the big screenAug 20, 2012 11:00 pm - If everything goes as planned, filmmakers Kevin and DeAnna Cooper hope to do for the Northwest suburbs what John Hughes did for the North Shore. The husband-and-wife tea...
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Rosie O’Donnell suffers heart attack, gets stentAug 20, 2012 6:54 pm - NEW YORK — Rosie O’Donnell says she suffered a heart attack last week and is “lucky to be here.” The 50-year-old comedian detailed the experience on her blog Monday, sa...
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‘Top Gun’ director Tony Scott jumps to his deathAug 19, 2012 10:19 pm - LOS ANGELES — Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as “Top Gun,” “Days of Thunder” and “Beverly Hills Cop II,” died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County...
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’Expendables 2’ brawls to No. 1 with $28.8 millionAug 19, 2012 5:13 pm - LOS ANGELES — Sylvester Stallone and his beefy buddies have muscled their way to the top of the weekend box office. Stallone’s action hero roundup “The Expendables 2” de...
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Lee to revisit Jackson’s ‘Bad’ at Toronto festAug 17, 2012 3:42 pm - LOS ANGELES — Music is highlighting the Toronto International Film Festival with a Michael Jackson documentary from Spike Lee and a closing-night film featuring Vanessa ...
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‘Sparkle’ shines as a second chanceAug 17, 2012 7:51 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Some of those who worked with Whitney Houston on her last movie are finding inspiration in the performance by the long-struggling singer, who they say...