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"The Lego Batman Movie" is simultaneously a spin-off and the most amazingly strange film you'll watch all year. - The premiere of HBO's new drama "Westworld" sets the scene of an amusement park filled with robots, and what problems their evolution might cause.
- In Ridley Scott's "The Martian," an astronaut is accidentally left behind on Mars. His struggle to survive while a rescue is planned drives the plot forward, with plenty of tension and action along the way, against a background of lavishly photographed effects and sets. This epic movie hits a lot of the same buttons, culturally, as the original round of golden-age space-race films from the 1950s, but this time the colonialism and paternalism is left behind at liftoff.
- Twenty-somethings are into group costumes as their plans for Halloween
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- What I didn't know as a child — most adults I meet are similarly oblivious — is that L. Frank Baum's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," upon which the movie is based, was a political allegory for American politics at the dawn of the 20th century.
- 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' movie review: Marvel fires up the mass-market assembly line and out comes the formulaic, uninspiring film. Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan star.
- Friday morning's massacre in Colorado at a showing of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," is prompting heightened security measures at screenings around the Baltimore region, including Harford County. "We are aware of the incident in Colorado, discussions have occurred and appropriate planning is in place," Monica Worrell, spokesperson for the Harford County Sheriff's Office, said Friday afternoon.
- Baltimore County police and movie theaters react to the shooting rampage at a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado early Friday morning.
- Despite the heavy downpour across the region Thursday night, dozens of Batman fans waited in the rain for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Hunt Valley Regal theater.
- The Hollywood Theater in Arbutus hosts a midnight showing of the final Batman movie in Christopher Nolan's trilogy.
- The long-awaited ¿The Dark Knight Rises¿ -- the latest big-screen treatment of DC Comics' Batman -- will hit screens this week, and the early movie reviews are looking good.
- The Towson Times is hosting a random drawing for a set of four (4) tickets to the midnight premiere of the film (12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 20) at the Regal Hunt Valley Cinemas.
