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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Matt Dillon, Tea Leoni, Liam Neeson, Vanessa Williams, Tony Scott
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Race to the Oscars
Tribune Movie ReporterIf everything goes right for Hollywood over the next four months, you'll be running from multiplex to multiplex thinking, "Ah, finally, an overload of great movies!" Such a scenario has yet to play out, ever, yet you may find yourself scrambling just the...Tags: Bill Murray, Tommy Lee Jones, Philip K Dick, Tim Burton, Robert Benton
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American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'
German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...
Tags: Billy Wilder, Maurice Chevalier, Douglas Sirk, Jim Jarmusch, Mary Pickford
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A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence
Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...
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Chan-wook Park has a lot riding on blood-filled 'Stoker'
In a high-tech bungalow on a back corner of the 20th Century Fox lot, the South Korean auteur Chan-wook Park is chiseling his opus as the clock ticks toward 9 p.m. Park, the toast of Asian cinema and hero to hordes of genre-film enthusiasts, is...
Tags: Genres, Tim Burton, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Colin Firth, BBC
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Film review: Brad Bird adds wit to 'Mission: Impossible'
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” gallops into theaters almost exactly on schedule — its predecessors came out in 1996, 2000 and 2006 — and (more importantly) just in time to rescue Tom Cruise's flagging box-office...
Tags: Apple iPad, Theft, Valkyrie (movie), Brad Bird, J.J. Abrams
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Shanghai film fest kicks off with honor for Mike Medavoy
24 FramesThe Shanghai International Film Festival kicked off Saturday night by honoring a native-son turned Hollywood producer, Mike Medavoy.... -
Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening
24 FramesMarvel Comics' guru Stan Lee will be honored with the Ronald Reagan Foundation "Great Communicator" Award and will host a screening of "The Avengers," which is opening theatrically this weekend, at the Catalina Film Festival. The festival, which runs... -
'Warriors of the Rainbow' star: From minister to leading man
24 FramesLin Ching-Tai is a 52-year-old Presbyterian minister in Taiwan. But for the epic action film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” he traded his vestments for tattoos and a fake scar, transforming into the legendary aboriginal chief Mouna... -
Act of Valor
Fox 5 San Diego staffI remember being in high school and playing basketball with some pilots at Miramar who were talking about the filming of Top Gun on the base. One told me Tom Cruise asked if he could go up in the F-14 and he ended up puking (but insisted on cleaning it up...Tags: Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Movies, Central Intelligence Agency, Miramar
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos playing at Real Art Ways
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
Through Sat. Jan. 28, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org
There may be an intricate and coherent mythology, a compelling narrative logic, a good long-form plot...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Real Art Ways, Animation (genre), Movies, Movies
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Five games to watch from GDC 2012
CNNApple's new iPad wasn't the only game in town this week. More than 18,000 videogame makers gathered in San Francisco at the 26th annual Game Developers Convention (GDC 2012) to discuss the future of interactive entertainment. While there was plenty of...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Apple iPad, AAA, Automotive Equipment, Superman (fictional character)
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