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'The Great Mouse Detective'
Zap2ItA fine example of traditional Disney animation, this 1986 variation on the Sherlock Holmes legend - now presented in a "Mystery in the Mist Edition" - makes a rodent named Basil (voice by Barrie Ingham) the skilled sleuth in question. His nemesis is...Tags: DVDs, Vincent Price
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Movie review: 'Talk to Me'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Blessedly free of the usual biopic freight and sanctimony, the exuberant new film "Talk to Me" has a great subject and a great actor working in tandem, reminding audiences that once upon a time media personalities used to fight The...Tags: Johnny Carson, Don Cheadle, Sidney Poitier, Disc Jockeys, Prisons
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'Button,' 'Wall-E,' 'Iron Man' snare visual effects noms
The Envelope"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Cloverfield," "Iron Man" and "Wall-E" are among the nominees for the 7th annual Visual Effects Society Awards, which were announced Monday. Nominees for the outstanding visual effects in a visual effects driven...Tags: Wall-E (movie), Bolt (movie), Scott Peterson, Entertainment, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie)
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Fast-Paised review: 'Talk to Me'
Extremely outspoken ex-convict Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. (Don Cheadle) becomes a successful radio DJ in late '60s Washington, D.C. with the help of production manager Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Based on actual events, the film is peppered...Tags: Don Cheadle, Music Industry, Entertainment, Rick Famuyiwa, Taraji P. Henson
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Dallas Launches Lingerie Football Team
They won't be as good as the Dallas Cowboys, but the new Dallas Desire lingerie football team could get quite a bit of attention. The team is part of a ten-team league that started several years ago with just a lingerie bowl game that aired during...Tags: National Football League, Football, Multi-Sport Events, Death, University of Texas at Austin
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Fast-Paised review: Akeelah and the Bee'
Big question: Eleven-year-old Akeelah (Keke Palmer) embraces her spelling skills and pursues the national bee with the help of Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne). After "Spellbound" and "Bee Season," shouldn't Hollywood have learned the ABCs of...Tags: Curtis Armstrong, Laurence Fishburne, Entertainment, Angela Bassett, Plastic Surgeons
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Movie review: Akeelah and the Bee'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) "Akeelah and the Bee" is predictable, corny and formulaic. Maybe we'll see it listed in some future edition of Webster's under the word "precornulaic." Yet this latest triumph of the spelling-bee spirit, like last year's earnest,...Tags: Curtis Armstrong, Michael Phillips, Laurence Fishburne, Entertainment, Angela Bassett
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Twin Falls Idaho
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 30, 1999 At the beginning of the sensitive and decidedly offbeat love story "Twin Falls Idaho," a beautiful young call girl, Penny (Michele Hicks), enters a Victorian-era skid row hotel--it looks to be the 103-year-old Barclay at 4th and...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Chocolate Cake, Margot Kidder, Brian de Palma, Entertainment
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5 films that are notable for time travel
1. THE TIME MACHINE (George Pal; 1960) 3 stars A very likable, sometimes magical, adaptation of H.G. Wells' visionary antiwar sci-fi novel of time travel, in which the hero scientist (played by Rod Taylor) travels from New Year's Eve 1899 to the far...Tags: John Cleese, Linda Hamilton, James Cameron, Sean Connery, Travel
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Movie review, 'The Time Machine'
Imagine a time-traveling H.G. Wells transported to a modern multiplex, plopped in a seat and forced to watch the new $80 million movie version of his own 1895 science-fiction classic "The Time Machine." Would author Wells gape in wonderment? Applaud...Tags: Jeremy Irons, Entertainment, Travel, Phyllida Law, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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'The Young Unknowns'
Times Staff WriterAnyone with a passing acquaintance with the offspring of celebrities and industry figures, or their wealthy friends and associates, can attest to the painful accuracy of Catherine Jelski's bleakly perceptive "The Young Unknowns," inspired by the stage...Tags: Eion Bailey, Entertainment, Heidi Fleiss, Leslie Bibb, Devon Gummersall
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