Movies
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20-year-old Rhode Island cellist wins Miss USAJun 03, 2012 9:00 pm - LAS VEGAS — A 20-year-old cellist from Rhode Island won the Miss USA crown and will represent the United States in this year's Miss Universe pageant. Olivia Culpo topped...
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Kevin Costner to perform in St. CharlesJun 02, 2012 12:00 pm - Hollywood actor, director and producer Kevin Costner is also a country-rock singer, and he will perform with his band next month at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles. Co...
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Comcast’s CEO calls ‘Battleship’ sales an ‘unfortunate miss’Jun 01, 2012 1:00 pm - Universal Pictures’ “Battleship” film was “an unfortunate miss” at the box office, said Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of parent Comcast Corp. “The Five-Year Eng...
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Andy Garcia aims to educate with 'Greater Glory'Jun 01, 2012 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Andy Garcia can't understand why an episode of Mexican history as bloody as the Cristero War is barely known outside Mexico or even within the country. That...
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'Snow White' actors get all dressed upMay 31, 2012 10:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Charlize Theron's evil queen costumes for “Snow White and the Huntsman” called for hundreds of hand-cut rooster feathers, thousands of iridescent beetle wi...
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'Greater Glory' a bloated, bombastic war epicMay 31, 2012 6:00 am - How could anyone screw up a story so ripe for being made into a big-budget, widescreen historical epic? First-time director Dean Wright's bloated, repetitious, jingoist...
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Eye-opening 'U.N. Me' not for optimistsMay 31, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'U.N. Me' "U.N. Me" horribly depressed me, not only because it charts the numerous failings of the United Nations, but because it reports how the...
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Playfulness, charisma lighten touching 'Intouchables'May 31, 2012 6:00 am - On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes...
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'High School' reeks of reefer badnessMay 31, 2012 6:00 am - Call it a case of reefer badness. For John Stalberg's lowbrow stoner comedy "High School" to be really funny, viewers would have to be blitzed out on weed to take up th...
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Style, substance happily co-exist in sweet 'Moonrise Kingdom'May 31, 2012 6:00 am - The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films — the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are l...