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Review: 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'
Robin Wright's housewife character reflects on her past in an off-kilter story.
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'Missing Person': Lives altered by 9/11
Also reviewed: 'Strongman,' 'The Sun.'
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Writer-director Noah Buschel's ambitious, stylish neo-noir "The Missing Person" starts so self-consciously that it ...
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'The Road' versus 'Old Dogs'
Serious films like 'The Lovely Bones' are in a fight with lighter fare like 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' this holiday season. Guess who's expected to win?
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Movie projector: 'New Moon' to dominate again as three new movies look soft
"Old Dogs," "Ninja Assassin" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" don't seem to be a challenge to the supernatural love story.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences re-creates moviegoing experience of 100 years ago
The films will be hand-cranked and there will be live music accompanying the silent pictures. One night will feature Mary Pickford films.
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Review: 'Old Dogs'
The Disney comedy in the 'Wild Hogs' vein starring John Travolta and Robin Williams is thuddingly unfunny.
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"Wild Hogs," "Old Dogs" -- what's next, "Bumps ...
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Review: 'The Road'
An honorable, yet unfulfilling, attempt at filming Cormac McCarthy's unfilmable book.
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"The Road" is a road you'll wish hadn't been taken. Not because ...
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Review: 'The Princess and the Frog'
The hand-drawn animated Disney film set in jazz-soaked 1920s New Orleans is a refreshing, lively version of the fairy tale.
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Review: 'Red Cliff'
Director John Woo returns to his roots with a different kind of action picture than he is known for in Hollywood, an old-fashioned historical epic based on an AD 208 Chinese battle.
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John Lee Hancock responds to right wing attacks on 'The Blind Side'
Conservative bloggers have attacked the movie for one small joke made at the expense of George W. Bush.
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Exclusive video: 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'
The characters appear calm and in control, but that's sort of the premise: The "perfect life" can hide many dramatic, decadent and desperate lives that came before.
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'New Moon' gross is rising
Summit Entertainment underestimated the film's worldwide ticket sales by $16.1 million. The latest opening-weekend total is $274.9 million, but overseas box office figures are still trickling in.
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Pusan West shines light on Korean cinema
Contemporary filmmakers such as 'Thirst's' Park Chan-wook stop at the inaugural film festival at Chapman University to talk about the new wave of South Korean film.
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Expect huge box office opening for 'The Princess and the Frog'
The initial release will include an "experience": games, actresses dressed as Disney princesses, props, and other activities.
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'The Blind Side's' John Lee Hancock escapes from movie jail
Why hasn't the talented director made a movie since his second feature, "The Alamo," arrived way back in 2004?
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'Avatar' star Zoe Saldana says the movie will match the hype: 'This is big'
"All of the technology in this pioneering film is used in a story about the human heart."
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Disney Studios drama might alter the industry
Chairman Rich Ross has begun restructuring operations and set in motion a plan that could pit the film unit against business partners.
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William Kunstler's daughters make a case for him
In a new film, Emily and Sarah Kunstler reflect on the controversial attorney's trials, including the Chicago Seven, and his legacy.
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Emily Blunt
10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years
How Gandalf lost an Oscar and other tight races.
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Q & A with 'Princess and the Frog' animators
Ron Clements and John Musker talk about their fairy tale 'valentine' to New Orleans.
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The Disney animation team of Ron Clements and John Musker wrote and ...
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'Pippa Lee' autobiographical? Not so, says its writer-director
Though audiences might be tempted to think otherwise, it's 'a work of imagination,' says Rebecca Miller, who also wrote the book it's based on.
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Cormac McCarthy's rugged road to respectability
The writer had been dismissed as an eccentric with 'horrible' style and a hacky, regional view. Now, the much-anticipated film 'The Road,' based on his Pulitzer-winning novel, opens Wednesday.
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Walt Disney -- prince or toad?
The studio pioneer's detractors insist that he was racist and mean. A deeper look shows that the truth about the man is far more complicated.
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The Middle
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John Woo revisits Chinese roots with 'Red Cliff'
It's been 16 years since the influential filmmaker turned his vision to China. The historical epic combines Woo's large-scale production skills with an inspirational story designed to uplift Asian you
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'Transmedia': A brave new world in entertainment marketing
USC professor Henry Jenkins coined the term to explain how an array of platforms can be used to enrich media's impact on the public.
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Can a bench tell a ...
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Opinions pour from expanded 'Mondovino'
Advocacy journalist Jonathan Nossiter probes further into globalization's effect on winemaking.
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At once a punch-drunk love letter to the expressive ...
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New on DVD: 'Funny People' is funny and otherwise
Also: 'Angels & Demons,' 'Four Christmases,' 'Gomorrah' and more
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Also: "Angels & Demons," "Four Christmases," "Gomorrah" and more
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'New Moon' smashes 'Potter' midnight ticket sales record
According to four people close to the movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sold more than $22.2 million worth of tickets in midnights shows last night, the all-time record set this summer by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
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Fans scream with delight for 'Twilight: New Moon'
Midnight screenings of the vampire film draw long lines. 'omg unbelievably thrilling!' says one tweet.
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They were 99.9% sure they were going to love it.
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Review: 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'
Drawn to another man-in-crisis story, director Werner Herzog delivers a darkly delicious tale in which Nicolas Cage is positively reptilian.
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Review: 'The Messenger'
Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson lead a strong cast in director Oren Moverman's taut drama about a casualty notification team's struggle to balance duties with private lives.
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Woody Harrelson
Review: 'The Blind Side'
Sandra Bullock and newcomer Quinton Aaron have a warm and winning chemistry in director John Lee Hancock's fact-based story of a football-loving white family's adoption of a homeless black teen.
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Movie projector: 'New Moon' headed for $90-million-plus launch
Edward and Bella's latest bite at the box office looks like it will be the second biggest of 2009.
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15 documentary features make Oscar's short list
Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees. And Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" wasn't one of them.
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Capitalism: A Love Story
The newcomer stars opposite Sandra Bullock in 'Blind Side'
The young man auditioned, but thought he would be lucky to land a security job on set. Instead, he scored a lead role.
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At 6 feet 8, Quinton Aaron is not ...
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Movie review: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
The novel demands that Bella and Edward be kept apart, robbing the movie of the crazy love that made 'Twilight' such a guilty pleasure. And about the director ....
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Is Percy Jackson's mythology too close to Harry Potter's magic?
Executives working with the film are prepared for comparisons, but they're confident that the adventure has plenty of his own unique magic.
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'New Moon' causes strange changes for Taylor Lautner
The young actor muscled up to hold on to his role as the werewolf Jacob. Excited howling ensued.
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Disney's Rich Ross halts production of 'Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'
The planned $150-million project was just months from beginning shooting. The film was once considered to have franchise potential.
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The swashbuckling spirit behind 'Pirate Radio'
British DJs such as Johnnie Walker helped launch the music rebellion that spawned a similar underground movement in the U.S. that crested 30 years later.
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Hal Holbrook basks in 'That Evening Sun'
Making 'Into the Wild' gave the actor something he needed -- confidence. Now, he has star billing.
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It took Hal Holbrook more than 40 years, but he's ...
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Sean Penn
African American actors disappear from 'Couples Retreat' poster
Universal's new black eye: The movie's African American couple -- Faizon Love and Kali Hawk -- are absent.
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New Disney movie chief pulls plug on costly 'Captain Nemo'
Rich Ross has made the costly decision to stop production on the planned $150-million production -- the last project approved by his predecessor Dick Cook.
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'Twilight' mania hits Westwood with the premiere of 'New Moon'
It was a premiere so highly anticipated even the wolves came out. Literally.
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'Twilight: New Moon' rises in L.A.: red carpet in Westwood
Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and more raise the heat at the movie's premiere.
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Red Band
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Disney's dream that 'Chrismas Carol' will be the new 'Polar Express' coming true
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Chris Columbus is 'like a proud parent' watching 'Harry Potter' stars from afar
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'Twilight' screenwriter says 'New Moon' is better than first
Melissa Rosenberg, who adapted Stephenie Meyer's novels, says "I know who I'm writing for."
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