Movies
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‘Arthur the King’ blends canine-movie, sports-movie cliches to counter dumbed-down dialogueMar 13, 2024 2:00 pm - “Arthur the King” opens by crosscutting between its two main characters: Professional athlete Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scruffy dog named Arthur. Both possess advanced survival skills. And both teach each other resilience.
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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is peak Kristen StewartMar 13, 2024 1:09 pm - Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in “Love Lies Bleeding,” a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug guts.
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Anthony Hopkins’ tricks to acting are really quite simple
Mar 12, 2024 3:18 pm - Now that he’s been doing it for well over half a century, Anthony Hopkins believes acting is much “easier” now. “As you get older, you have a little more knowledge of life,” he says.
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Japanese animation studio founder Miyazaki isn’t ready to retire just yet, after latest Oscar win
Mar 12, 2024 7:04 am - Ghibli, the Japanese studio that just won its second Oscar for feature animation for “The Boy and The Heron," hasn't said yet what it plans next. But founder Hayao Miyazaki, who at 83 was the oldest director ever nominated in that category, won’t rule out making another film, even if his next project is a short instead of a full-length feature.
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Oscars get audience bump from ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer,’ but ratings aren’t quite a blockbuster
Mar 12, 2024 6:44 am - “Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars ratings. An estimated 19.5 million people watched Sunday night's 96th Academy Awards ceremony on ABC. That's the biggest number drawn by the telecast in four years.
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Emma Stone won, but Lily Gladstone didn’t loseMar 11, 2024 7:27 pm - When Emma Stone was announced as the best actress Oscar winner, a ceremony light on surprise got a genuine shock, perfectly illustrated by Stone’s stunned expression. Stone’s win, for her sensational performance in “Poor Things,” was hard not to cast as a defeat for Lily Gladstone.
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‘Barbie’ ballad ‘What Was I Made For?’ makes Billie Eilish the youngest person to win 2 OscarsMar 11, 2024 8:12 am - What were Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell made for? Winning awards, apparently. The sibling duo’s “Barbie” blockbuster ballad “What Was I Made For?” won the Academy Award for best original song on Sunday night.
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Colman Domingo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Lily Gladstone were among the awards season’s fashion MVPs
Mar 11, 2024 7:47 am - This year’s red carpet season failed to disappoint, fashion-wise, with plenty of drama, personal style and new takes on Old Hollywood.
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Ukraine’s first Oscar hailed for reminding ‘evil still lives’ as Russian drone attacks hit buildings
Mar 11, 2024 7:27 am - Ukraine awoke Monday to another day of war — Russian drone attacks blasting buildings in the Kharkiv and Odesa regions — but also the news it had won its first Oscar. “This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history, and I’m honored,” an emotional Mstyslav Chernov said Sunday at the Academy Awards.
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List of winners at the 2024 Oscars
Mar 11, 2024 6:25 am - Here’s a full list of the winners at Sunday’s Academy Awards.