Movies
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Michael Bay's latest all 'Pain,' no 'Gain'Apr 25, 2013 6:00 am - Had the Coen brothers or Quentin Tarantino directed "Pain & Gain," we would have been treated to a wildly violent, acidically comic deconstruction of the American dream ...
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'Mud' a lyrical, well-acted coming-of-age taleApr 25, 2013 5:00 am - Matthew McConaughey has been on an extraordinary run of late, turning an impressively versatile hat trick in "Bernie," "Magic Mike" and "Killer Joe" while proving that, ...
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Gilberts filmmaker finds the Force of 'Star Wars' in familiesApr 23, 2013 5:15 am - Cris Macht and his sister had gone with their dad to see the original "Star Wars." All Macht remembers is that they had to wait an hour and half in line to see the movie...
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Fans sink into Cruise’s ‘Oblivion’ in $38.2 million debutApr 22, 2013 8:05 am - LOS ANGELES — Movie fans slipped into “Oblivion” as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. That d...
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Social justice films will be shown at CLCApr 21, 2013 12:21 pm - Two award-winning social justice-related documentaries, “The House I Live In” and “The Invisible War,” will be presented at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the College of ...
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DVD previews: ‘The Impossible,’ ‘Gangster Squad’Apr 20, 2013 5:03 am - Coming April 23 “The Impossible” (PG-13, 114 minutes, Summit/Lionsgate): The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens this fact-based drama...
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Revenge drama ‘Django Unchained’ out on DVDApr 19, 2013 5:02 pm - “Django Unchained” Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award winning film “Django Unchained” is one of his best of his career. Set in 1858 Texas, two years before the Civil...
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A pitch for 10 of the best baseball moviesApr 19, 2013 6:00 am - This week marks the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's historic 1947 major league debut that opened the gates of professional baseball for minorities. And Brian Helge...
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‘Star Wars’ films to come yearly starting in 2015Apr 18, 2013 7:51 am - LAS VEGAS — Disney is turning “Star Wars” films into an annual summer ritual. Walt Disney Co. chairman Alan Horn announced Wednesday that the studio would release films ...
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‘Lone Ranger’ aims to take Tonto beyond sidekickApr 18, 2013 7:51 am - LAS VEGAS — To watch a snippet of “The Lone Ranger” is to empathize with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white ...