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Noah Baumbachs miserable Angelenos in Greenberg (21 March 12:30) |
| The characters the writer-director creates behave the way he witnesses people act. Ben Stiller stars in the new film.
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Review The Runaways (19 March 12:30) |
| The biopic about the '70s punk girl group spends too much time with the wrong character.
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Review Repo Men (19 March 12:30) |
| The futuristic thriller starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker has its own debt to pay as it borrows heavily from similar, and better, films.
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Bounty Hunter runs out of gas (19 March 12:30) |
| Jennifer Aniston has great hair and Gerard Butler has roguish charm, but it's not enough for the action-comedy.
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Greenberg (19 March 12:30) |
| Writer-director Noah Baumbach's latest film stars Ben Stiller as an unlikable loser whose downbeat life comes off as more depressing than dramatic.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (19 March 12:30) |
| The inferno known as middle school is portrayed too realistically to really enjoy.
Snot, I think, i... |
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Neil Young Trunk Show (19 March 12:30) |
| The rocker teams again with the director on 'Neil Young Trunk Show.'
Virtually from the beginning o... |
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MOVIE REVIEW The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (19 March 12:30) |
| Director Niels Arden Oplev distills the essence of the bestselling book into a taut, satisfying thriller.
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City Island (19 March 12:30) |
| Much shouting occurs when a Bronx family's secrets come home to roost comically.
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Review 45365 (19 March 12:30) |
| Also: 'The Killing Jar,' 'Prodigal Sons,' 'The Red Baron,' 'See What I'm Saying,' 'Stolen' and 'Tales From the Script.'
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Movie Projector No Bounty Hunter Repo Men or Wimpy Kid can upstage Alice (19 March 04:48) |
| Walt Disney Studios' 3-D blockbuster "Alice" is sure to top the box-office charts for the third consecutive weekend.
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Word of mouth Remaking foreign-language films in English (18 March 12:30) |
| Foreign-language films don't tend to do well at the U.S. box office, but Hollywood is happy to remake them.
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SXSW 2010 Tiny Furniture the big winner in Austin (18 March 02:13) |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid gets real (17 March 12:30) |
| The film version of author Jeff Kinney's work changes the drawings to actors but works to keep the spirit.
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TV pioneers Abbott Costello The Goldbergs return on DVD (17 March 12:30) |
| Boldly jumping from radio to the emerging medium of television more than half a century ago, the series are back in restored collections.
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How many Avatar DVDs are you willing to buy (17 March 06:18) |
| Even though Fox has made untold hundreds of millions from the blockbuster, it seems determined to squeeze a few more hundreds of millions out of our wallets.
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Producer Scott Rudin negotiating to leave Disney (17 March 04:42) |
| The producer of "No Country For Old Men," "The Queen," and "There Will Be Blood" is in talks to settle out his contract, which still has three years remaining.
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The Green Zone debacle Why it really hurts Universal (17 March 02:38) |
| It's no secret that Universal is going to take a bath on "Green Zone," which cost upwards of $100 million to make.
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SXSW 2010 MacGruber wows them in Austin (17 March 12:10) |
| There is something wonderfully daft about the film's sense of randomness as it takes ridiculous lines of dialogue and builds them into outrageous running gags.
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Can The Thing remake help stop Universals losing streak (16 March 10:07) |
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Avatar will hit Blu-ray and DVD on Earth Day April 22 (16 March 09:03) |
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Why Green Zone failed (16 March 06:22) |
| Even the highest-quality filmmaking and the most palatable marketing hook can't save a movie set in a tumultuous Middle East.
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SXSW 2010 Saturday Nights all right for writing (16 March 03:22) |
| The film is a strange and frustrating document because it succeeds partly at what it sets out to do: examine the making of an episode of "SNL."
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Is Jim Cameron talking out of both sides of his mouth on 3-D conversions (16 March 02:27) |
| Big Picture: If Cameron is going to beef about other people doing 3-D conversions, he shouldn't be so eager to do it himself.
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Preview Review Everyones favorite ogre is back in Shrek Forever After (16 March 01:33) |
| When it was announced earlier this month that "Shrek Forever After" would be opening the Tribeca Film Festival, the news was met with skepticism.
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Green Zone flops as Alice in Wonderland dominates again (14 March 10:16) |
| Director Tim Burton's 3-D "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johny Depp, declined just 47%, ruling the box office once again with a weekend domestic take of $62 million.
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SXSW 2010 Robert Rodriguez gets predatory (14 March 09:31) |
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo a hit for Niels Arden Oplev (14 March 01:30) |
| The director's version of Stieg Larsson's international bestseller is coming to the U.S.
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How to Train Your Dragon and a baptism of fire (14 March 01:30) |
| Filmmakers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders faced a tough deadline when they were brought in to rework the animated film.
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Dillinger Is Dead makes a political statement (14 March 01:30) |
| Marco Ferreri's 1969 film is a black comedy that follows a man in his domestic routine.
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Cold Weather takes a mysterious turn (14 March 01:30) |
| Aaron Katz's third feature explores the genre in an ambitious step-up in filmmaking.
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The Princess and the Frog (14 March 01:30) |
| Also: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon,' 'Astro Boy,' 'Broken Embraces,' 'Armored'
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SXSW 2010 Kick-Ass doesnt live up to its title (14 March 02:47) |
| The independently produced "Kick-Ass," which Lionsgate will release in two weeks, feels somehow at once lean and bloated.
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For Bong Joon-ho the Mother of all monsters (13 March 01:30) |
| The South Korean director said the special relationship between his wife and son prompted his latest film.
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Mel Gibson says Viking movie may be his last (13 March 05:23) |
| The actor-director says "It s the thing I have been going toward, in a way, since I was young, and I think when it s done I may be finished.
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Movie Review Green Zone (12 March 01:30) |
| Director Paul Greengrass, screenwriter Brian Helgeland and Matt Damon team on an action thriller that deals candidly with the invasion of Iraq and the failed search for weapons of mass destr... |
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Movie review Remember Me (12 March 01:30) |
| 'Twilight's' Robert Pattinson looks good in romantic mode but his latest film needs more heart than heartthrob.
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Movie Review Family Wedding (12 March 01:30) |
| This comedy starring America Ferrera and Lance Gross fails to address race issues, settling instead for tired jokes.
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Movie Review Shes Out of My League hits a home run (12 March 01:30) |
| R-rated comedy mixes raunch and decency thanks to the writing team, director and stars.
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American Radical Norman Finkelstein fights how he sees fit (12 March 01:30) |
| Also reviewed: 'Children of Invention,' 'Cry of the Owl,' 'Mother' and more.
An enthralling Korean mystery
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They call me Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (12 March 07:30) |
| Leonardo da Vinci's life is being turned into an action-adventure movie.
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Movie projector Few headed to Green Zone as Alice set to dominate box office again (12 March 03:12) |
| The pricey action drama, which stars Matt Damon, is on track to be the latest film about the Iraq war to disappoint at the box office.
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Preview Review The Twilight Saga Eclipse gives us more of the same (12 March 01:57) |
| Should Bella make the ultimate sacrifice and become a vampire for her one true love, Edward?
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The Art of the Steal wades into the move of the Barnes collection (11 March 01:30) |
| The documentary likens the relocation to a hijacking. Critics say the movie presents a one-sided view.
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Hitting the Yellow Brick Road again (11 March 01:30) |
| Several 'Wizard of Oz'-based films are kicking around Hollywood. The danger lies in playing with a film treasure.
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South by Southwests film festival is hospitable (11 March 01:30) |
| They don't have much in common -- the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," the independent film on aging "That Evening Sun," and the upcoming comic book adaptation “Kick-Ass " -- except f... |
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Investors can soon make bets on movie box office (11 March 01:30) |
| Two new futures exchanges will let studios spread the financial risk of creating films.
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Toto Recall Disney now in the Wizard of Oz game too (11 March 09:51) |
| Joe Roth, the studio-executive-turned-producer, is developing a movie called "Brick" that delves into how the Wizard of Oz came to sit behind the curtain.
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Hollywood Revival File The Perfect Game stages an amazing ninth-inning comeback (11 March 05:41) |
| After a long and messy series of setbacks, the film is being released April 16 in 500 theaters nationwide.
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Alice in Wonderland took Crispin Glover to new heights (11 March 04:47) |
| Glover stood on painters stilts for most of his scenes.
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