Movies
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Mbatha-Raw says 'Beyond' film shows power of selfNov 16, 2014 4:15 am - LOS ANGELES - British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw has had a busy 2014. Earlier this year, she starred in "Belle," based on a true story about a mixed-race woman who was rai...
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'Dumb and Dumber To' tops box office with $38.1MNov 16, 2014 12:01 am - NEW YORK - At the movies, idiocy never goes out of style. Twenty years after the 1994 original, "Dumb and Dumber To" opened with $38.1 million at the weekend box office...
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Playing Hawking a complex equation for RedmayneNov 15, 2014 4:30 am - TORONTO - Time is relative, especially for young actors tasked with playing brilliant theoretical physicists. Eddie Redmayne estimates that the euphoria of being cast a...
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DVD previews: '22 Jump Street,' 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'Nov 15, 2014 4:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 18: "22 Jump Street" (R, 105 minutes, Sony): In the annals of cheap-laugh movies, this follow-up to "21 Jump Street" appro...
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Felicity Jones is an essential addition to 'Theory'Nov 14, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK - Twice in two years, Felicity Jones has stood out playing women who refuse to be relegated to mere supporting roles in the biopics of great men. In last year'...
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Actors: Making 'Dumber' sequel more fun than firstNov 14, 2014 4:45 am - LOS ANGELES — Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels made another “Dumb & Dumber” film because fans asked for it, and the two actors said making the sequel was more fun than workin...
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Documentary captures pioneer spirit of winemakersNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - So you want to become a winemaker? Are you willing to quit your job, uproot your family, spend all your savings to plant a vineyard, tend it for three years before harve...
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Romance goes 'Beyond' the clichesNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - I am not normally a fan of movies that romanticize and glorify ethics-challenged, edgy sexual relationships between professional protectors and the very people they've b...
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Stewart's 'Rosewater' flows with suprising humorNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - Compared to how U.S. interrogators tortured prisoners in Kathryn Bigelow's fact-based military drama "Zero Dark Thirty," the Iranian prison housing Newsweek corresponden...
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Fact-based 'Theory' propelled by Redmayne's Stephen HawkingNov 13, 2014 4:30 am - Eddie Redmayne's moving portrait of the great British physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" ranks as one of those rarest of film performances, a galvan...