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'Fast & Furious 6' is one crazy race
Updated: 20 hr ago
"Fast & Furious 6" is the most entertaining, audacious installment of a franchise that has found its mojo after running on fumes for years. With this latest chapter, longtime fans of the...
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Movie review: A darker end to the 'Hangover' saga
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
Alan, the man-child who made a star of actor Zach Galifianakis, succinctly summarizes "The Hangover" franchise in a conversation with Mr. Chow: "When we get together, bad things happen and people...
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Animated forest adventure is adequate, not 'Epic'
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
"Epic" doesn't live up to its namesake. And it never really strives for such a label. It's a competently made, if incredibly derivative film that proves ephemeral. Though a worthy cause,...
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Summer movie preview: Sizzling blockbusters set to light up screen
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
Superman and Shakespeare get modern updates; Will Smith and son go into the future; and Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and too many other actors to name face the apocalypse or its aftermath. Yes, it's...
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3-Minute Interview: Filmmaker Matthew Nash tells Holocaust tale from GI's point of view
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
Nash is an associate professor of photography at Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston and director of "16 Photographs at Ohrdruf," a documentary about the first Nazi concentration camp...
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Movie review: Sarah Polley investigates the life's story
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
The first sign that "Stories We Tell" is not a typical documentary comes within its first few minutes. The young, blonde director, Sarah Polley, says to one of her subjects, as he's getting...
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At Cannes, Watson revels in post-'Potter' freedom
JAKE COYLE
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
CANNES, France (AP) -- Emma Watson is reveling in her post-"Potter" freedom at the Cannes Film Festival, relishing a Valley Girl role far from her wise-beyond-her-years Hermione. The 23-year-old...
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Coppola's 'Bling Ring' at home at decadent Cannes
JAKE COYLE
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
CANNES, France (AP) -- Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film...
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The Buzz: Emma's moving on from 'Harry Potter'
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Emma's moving on from 'Harry Potter' Emma Watson is reveling in her post-"Potter" freedom at the Cannes Film Festival, relishing a Valley Girl role far from her wise-beyond-her-years Hermione...
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Simon Pegg on 'Star Trek' sequel, 'The World's End'
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Simon Pegg got rather a start when he first read the script for "Star Trek Into Darkness." Playing the Enterprise's chief engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Pegg was one of the stars of J.J....
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Astronaut invites 'Star Trek' cast to space station
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
Chris Cassidy, speaking from the International Space Station -- where the new movie "Star Trek Into Darkness" was beamed up for the astronauts to screen this week -- has two space berths ready for...
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DiCaprio, Spielberg open a stormy Cannes
JAKE COYLE
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
CANNES, France (AP) -- The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera. Amid heavy rain, dancing...
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