Movies
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Nicole Kidman takes on a world of acting rolesNov 17, 2016 10:00 pm - Long and tall Aussie actress Nicole Kidman (who once refused my offer of a chocolate chip cookie when we were on an elevator together; but that's a story for another day...
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Movie review: Moody ‘Manchester by the Sea' is a showcase for Casey AffleckNov 17, 2016 10:00 pm - It's odd that the Hollywood establishment has only taken notice of Casey Affleck for his supporting role in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."...
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Movie review: ‘Billy Lynn' goes long on technique, comes up short in satisfactionNov 15, 2016 10:00 pm - For what appears at first to be a patriotic war film, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" is really an anti-war film. For a film that mostly takes place in a football stad...
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Movie review: ‘Nocturnal Animals' will fascinate you while shaking you to the coreNov 14, 2016 10:00 pm - The quiet but powerful impact of fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford's first film "A Single Man" explodes in a rain of fascinating excess, emotional violence, and ...
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Movie review: ‘Arrival' brings freshness to sci-fi genreNov 11, 2016 12:01 am - With his dreamy, trippy "Arrival," director Denis Villeneuve uses sci-fi the way it's meant to be used in melding the metaphysical and the metaphoric into a timely tapes...
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Movie review: The slow-moving ‘Arrival' won't be celebrated by all sci-fi buffsNov 11, 2016 12:01 am - The release of a new big-budget science-film always raises the hopes of a large section of the moviegoing public. But not all sci-fi pleases every fan of the genre. Know...
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Ang Lee brings war to the screen with new technologiesNov 10, 2016 10:00 pm - Taiwanese director Ang Lee has been rising up in the filmmaking ranks for more than two decades to become one of the greats of contemporary cinema. He first caught atten...
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Miller continues to open and walk through all kinds of entertainment doorsNov 09, 2016 10:00 pm - At the age of 24, Ezra Miller has already achieved enough artistic accomplishment to be labeled a renaissance man. He got his first professional credit — singing in...
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Redmayne magically becomes J.K. Rowling's Newt Scamander in ‘Fantastic Beasts'Nov 09, 2016 10:00 pm - The past couple of years have been quite the up and down ride for Eddie Redmayne. The English actor won Oscar gold for hardly moving in "The Theory of Everything," was n...
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Movie review: ‘Loving' showcases Civil Rights movementNov 08, 2016 10:00 pm - In "Loving," relative unknown Ruth Negga delivers a perfectly understated and stoic performance. With the most soulful eyes I've seen in a while, Negga communicates volu...