Movies
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Christopher Plummer going strong after 82 years, 1 OscarJun 17, 2012 8:08 am - NEW YORK — Hitting 82 hasn’t meant Christopher Plummer is slowing down. In fact, he seems to be hitting the gas. “I’ve never worked as hard as I have in my life at the p...
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Bad press greets John Travolta’s return to spotlightJun 15, 2012 11:37 am - LOS ANGELES — John Travolta will soon be back on the big screen, but weeks of negative headlines have focused on his personal life and not on the return of one of Hollyw...
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Tony Orlando breaks type with new Sandler movieJun 15, 2012 11:00 am - NEW YORK — No one was more surprised than congenial crooner Tony Orlando at being asked to appear in the new Adam Sandler movie “That's My Boy” — and as a rude and crude...
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Slasher movies have their day in new bookJun 14, 2012 10:00 am - Mad slashers unite! In 1989, I named Sean Cunningham's original horror fest "Friday the 13th" as the most influential motion picture of its decade. Now, 23 years later...
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'Safety' a quirky, charming sci-fi rom-comJun 14, 2012 10:00 am - Everybody needs a partner to travel through time with. That's the charmingly attractive, eloquently simple premise of "Safety Not Guaranteed," a quirky, low-budget indi...
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'Rock of Ages' never embraces the cheese factorJun 14, 2012 6:00 am - Gee, and the previews made it look so good, too. The hit Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" comes to the silver screen as the kind of embarrassing motion picture where aud...
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Sandler's 'Boy' as bad as you can getJun 14, 2012 6:00 am - Outside of Tyler Perry and maybe Michael Bay, few filmmakers constantly churn out critically skewered movies that make fortunes at the box office as Adam Sandler does. ...
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'Sister' shows off its touching humanityJun 14, 2012 6:00 am - An almost hypnotic sense of naturalism draws you into "Your Sister's Sister," an intimate comic-drama about three people who find their lives intertwined in sudden and u...
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'Holmes' sequel DVD more than elementaryJun 13, 2012 11:00 pm - “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as clever crime-solver Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law stars as his sidekick, Watson, in this ...
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Classic film back in theaters:Jun 11, 2012 4:18 pm - This summer, “Singin’ in the Rain’ celebrates its 60th anniversary with a return to the silver screen for one day only — July 12. Shows will be at 7 p.m. with select the...