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Video/Q&A: 'Smashed' star Mary Elizabeth Winstead
To bond as married alcoholics for the Sundance hit “Smashed,” co-stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul, appropriately, went out and got drunk. “I don’t know what I really learned about myself from that particular night...
Tags: Mae Whitman, Michael Cera, Alcohol Addiction, Jason Schwartzman, Ke$ha
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'Argo' review: Deserves Oscar nominations, not wins
*** (out of four) It’s not easy to make a reality-based, political, action-comedy that stretches from Tinseltown to Tehran and covers everything from Hollywood satire to public hangings. In his first directorial effort not set in Boston, Ben...
Tags: Iran, Alan Arkin, John Chambers, Central Intelligence Agency, Human Interest
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'Moonrise Kingdom' review: Wes Anderson recaptures the live-action magic
***1/2 (out of four) A great rainy day movie, “Moonrise Kingdom”—Wes Anderson’s silly, winning take on young adult literature—sees childhood as a storm to weather and adulthood as a confused search for a dwindling spark. The...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Movies, Bill Murray, Entertainment, Bruce Willis
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Grindhouse gets its due at Facets
The sound of the wah-wah guitar on the soundtrack to 1973's "Wonder Women" can signify only one thing: This movie means funky business. Nancy Kwan stars (happily slumming it more than a decade after she first gained notice in "The World of Suzie Wong"...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Genres, Movies, Entertainment, Judaism
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'Lockout' review: An absolute must-rent
**1/2 (out of four) Add “in space” to “Escape from New York” or “Con Air” and you pretty much get the gist of “Lockout,” an action movie with ambitions only of stupid fun and completely ridiculous, logic-...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Prisons
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'Safe House' review: Notice it's not called "Fiercely Original House"
** (out of four)
Stop me if you've heard this before:
Someone in a government organization (FBI/CIA/whatever) may be corrupt.
A former operative is now one of the most dangerous men on the planet.
Foreign, anonymous villains have no names and...Tags: Vera Farmiga, Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Central Intelligence Agency, Safe House (movie)
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'The Grey' a Liam Neeson howler, in a good way -- 3 stars
The title "8 Million Ways to Die" was already taken, so "The Grey" had to settle for "The Grey," named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite....Tags: Air and Space Accidents, The Grey (movie), Dallas Roberts, Entertainment, Jack London
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Weekend Preview: Top five San Diego events v 4
This city never sleeps. Fresh off the Fourth of July holiday bender, we locals are diving into a fierce entertainment line-up, starting with the FLUXX Aquatic Launch Party, followed by the Ray at Night Art Walk, Over the Line Tournament, Dada Life SunDaze...Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Business, Renewable Energy, Bars and Clubs
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Darryl E. Owens: Mortal combat: Are parents fighting losing war against video games?
As the father of an avid gamer, I got curious when I learned the U.S. Supreme Court would kick the tires onCalifornia's ban on the sale of violent video games to kids.
But somehow, Monday's 7-2 decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association...Tags: Inventories, Zoloft (drug), Firearms, Gaming Industry, Health Treatments
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'Act of Valor' review: War is an action movie?
* (out of four)
“Act of Valor” began as a small recruiting film. Five years and a script from one of the writers of “300” later, that's still all it is.
I definitely don’t understand how the Navy thought the best way to...Tags: Movies, Roman Polanski, Entertainment, The Hurt Locker (movie), Nestor Serrano
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‘Medal of Honor Warfighter’ enters dangerous territory
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comThe former Navy SEAL who wrote an unauthorized account of the Osama bin Laden raid also participated in the development ...... -
Tony Scott's death treated as suicide; autopsy planned
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles County Coroner's office said all evidence suggests director Tony Scott took his own life Sunday, when witnesses say he leaped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said the office is now treating the case......
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