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The Rancor speaks out on 'Clone Wars' (19 August 09:05) |
| "I didn't even know I was out until I went to see it in the theater."
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Richard Dutcher leaves the Mormon church and a genre (19 August 12:30) |
| Once known as the king of Mormon film, a crisis of faith has him heading in a new direction.
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DocuWeek makes docs Oscar eligible (18 August 10:16) |
| Both feature-length and short documentaries are included in the program of 23 entries.
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'Harry Potter' exits 2008 Oscars (18 August 10:03) |
| Was it ever in the running?
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DreamWorks Animation's growth focuses on 3-D (18 August 12:30) |
| The film studio will begin work to add 100,000 square feet of production space at its Glendale complex.
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Review: 'Mirrors' (18 August 12:30) |
| After muddling through this horror diversion, Kiefer Sutherland is better off keeping his day job on '24.'
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Moviemaker Cruise faces a crisis (18 August 12:30) |
| A black cloud seems to be following Tom Cruise, whose longtime friend and colleague Paula Wagner has left United Artists.
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'Tropic Thunder' bolts ahead of 'Dark Knight' at the box office (18 August 12:30) |
| The comedy starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black takes in an estimated $26 million, bumping Batman into second place.
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Britain's Steve Coogan accents movie comedies (17 August 12:30) |
| 'Tropic Thunder' costar looks for further laughs in 'Hamlet 2.'
ENGLISH comedian Steve Coogan stars... |
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'Tropic Thunder' brings back issues about cinema and race (17 August 12:30) |
| In a role bridging decades of progress and regress on the big screen, Robert Downey Jr. is an Aussie actor obsessed with being black in Ben Stiller's studio-satirizing movie within a movie.
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Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road': An apocalypse you can bear (17 August 12:30) |
| Director John Hillcoat and colleagues, in adapting the Pulitzer-winning work, have toiled to weigh hopelessness against faith.
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Orson Welles' 'Quixote' was eerily like his life (17 August 12:30) |
| His elusive dream, filmed in fits and starts but incomplete at his death, is revived on DVD.
IN THE messy and singular oeuv... |
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New DVDs: 'Street Kings,' 'Hannah Montana' (17 August 12:30) |
| Also new: 'The Life Before Her Eyes,' 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day'
Street Kings 20th Century Fox, $29.99/$34.98; Blu-Ra... |
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Sunday Conversation: Steve Coogan (17 August 12:30) |
| 'Tropic Thunder' costar looks for further laughs in 'Hamlet 2.'
ENGLISH comedian Steve Coogan stars... |
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Alan Rickman uncorks an amusing wine snob in 'Bottle Shock' (16 August 12:30) |
| The "Harry Potter" actor plays British snobbery with attuned subtlety, not gross caricature.
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Etan Cohen talks 'Tropic Thunder' and comedy (15 August 12:30) |
| 'Tropic Thunder' co-writer Etan Cohen's humor has social satire under the crudeness.
When Etan Cohen was working on the char... |
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Review: 'Henry Poole Is Here' (15 August 12:30) |
| Luke Wilson plays a lonely, hopeless soul in this indie drama.
The indie drama " Henry Poole Is Her... |
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Film critics stand firm against 'Tropic Thunder' protests by advocates for the disabled (15 August 12:30) |
| Groups decry the film's use of 'retard,' but movie's defenders say satire clears the way.
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A North Carolina film program's distinctive voice (15 August 12:30) |
| David Gordon Green is among notable alumni of the UNC School of the Arts program.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.... |
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Review: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' (15 August 12:30) |
| Despite excellent animation, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' fails with bad dialogue and plot machinations.
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Review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' (15 August 12:30) |
| Woody Allen's latest again tries to balance comedy and drama -- and ends up off-kilter.
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Next 'Harry Potter' film to be delayed eight months (15 August 12:30) |
| Warner Bros. says the schedule shift from November will take advantage of a summer short of blockbusters.
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'Harry Potter' shocker: 'Half-Blood' pushed to 2009 (15 August 03:29) |
| Studio brass says the 'good news' is the gap between it and 'Deathly Hallows' is now shorter.
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Hollywood boxing undercard: Tony Kaye vs. David Bergstein (15 August 01:20) |
| Capitol Films and ThinkFilm impresario David Bergstein has been taking it on the chin in the press in recent months, dogged by charges that his financial woes have led to a string of unpaid ... |
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A 'Star Wars' fan boy first (14 August 12:30) |
| 'Clone Wars' director Dave Filoni is a lifelong 'Star Wars' geek.
GEORGE LUCAS, looking overheated ... |
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Lionsgate s novel plan of attack: Blitz em (14 August 12:30) |
| Lionsgate to court mainstream with burst of late '08 movie releases
IT'S SOMETHING that few film distributors would ever con... |
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Paula Wagner steps down at United Artists (14 August 12:30) |
| The CEO's departure raises uncertainty about the film studio and Tom Cruise, her longtime business partner.
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Dream fulfilled for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona's' Rebecca Hall (14 August 12:30) |
| IT WASN'T likely that Rebecca Hall was going to be able to sneak quietly into an acting career in England. Her father is one of the world's most renowned theater directors, Peter Hall. Of ... |
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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' reviews (14 August 05:56) |
| More about Legos than ethos?
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Review: 'Tropic Thunder' (13 August 12:30) |
| Stiller's latest is both smart and dumb.
OPPOSITES DO more than attract in Ben Stiller’s unapologetic R-rated comed... |
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'In Search of a Midnight Kiss' is smitten with L.A. (13 August 12:30) |
| Filmmaker Alex Holdridge tries to do for Los Angeles what Woody Allen did for Manhattan -- all on a $25,000 budget.
If a you... |
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Harold Lloyd's 'Welcome Danger' at UCLA (13 August 12:30) |
| The "talkie" version became one of Lloyd's highest-grossing films.
The 1928 comedy classic "Speedy"... |
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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' premieres (13 August 07:08) |
| On the scene as the "Star Wars" universe took over Hollywood.
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Warners' films: Movie overboard! (13 August 03:56) |
| The studio has too many movies to release, so it's starting to pick out the weak calves from the herd.
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Bill Hader: Crazed movie fan? (12 August 10:19) |
| The Judd Apatow regular talks Internet comedy and his Web series "The Line."
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Bill Maher, Jesus and the Oscars (12 August 10:11) |
| Can "Religulous" and the controversial comedian break into the closed-knit ranks of the film academy's documentary branch?
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'Star Wars' just kid stuff? (12 August 12:30) |
| The empire expands with an animated film. It's loud, but is it needed?
I read in the paper last wee... |
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Fox's cruel summer (12 August 03:33) |
| This is the first summer since 1997 that Fox hasn't had a $100-million box-office hit.
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Isaac Hayes proved that Oscar sometimes 'digs it' (12 August 12:32) |
| Hayes was only the third African American to take home an Academy Award.
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'Half-Blood Prince' casts an early spell (02 August 12:30) |
| New 'Harry Potter' photos, trailer, and the horror of the Inferi.
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'Sex and the Single Girl' will have your eyes popping (01 August 12:30) |
| It's been 37 years since I interviewed Busby Berkeley, then a crusty but still energetic 75, in a Berlin hotel room, but the memory remains vivid.
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'Mummy' could carry away box-office lead (01 August 12:30) |
| The third installment in the series must bridge a seven-year gap.
"The Mummy" franchise hasn't quit... |
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Review: 'Swing Vote' (01 August 12:30) |
| In this tale of an improbably key voter, Kevin Costner amiably reasserts his chosen corner of movie stardom. But the vaguely Capra-esque story doesn't have much to say.
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Review: 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' (01 August 12:30) |
| Starring Brendan Fraser and Jet Li, a series' latest offers special effects and spectacle more than a sense of fun.
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Review: 'Frozen River' (01 August 12:30) |
| This intense indie drama of unlikely female partners involved in a smuggling operation on the Canadian border is a bracing character study.
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'Frozen River': Not a typical chatty chick flick (01 August 12:30) |
| These women act upon their world.
It could be called the Sundance Curse. Year after year, films win... |
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Director Rob Cohen's favorite mummy movies (31 July 12:30) |
| 'The Mummy' director was a fan of the genre before he was asked to helm the third Brendan Fraser 'Mummy' adventure.
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'Twilight': Surprise hit (31 July 12:30) |
| Stephenie Meyer's novels subvert expectations and hearken to a more innocent time.
It's the yearnin... |
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Kevin Costner bets on himself again in 'Swing Vote' (31 July 12:30) |
| Kevin Costner puts up his own money for 'Swing Vote.' It's paid off nicely before.
KEVIN COSTNER'S “ Swing Vote&rdquo... |
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Samuel L. Jackson character upends stereotypes in 'Lakeview Terrace' (30 July 12:30) |
| Jackson plays a law-and-order racist who doesn't like the interracial couple next door.
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