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Movie review: 'The Spirit of the Beehive'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) "Spirit of the Beehive," the 1973 debut film of one of the world's great, neglected filmmakers, Spain's Victor Erice, is a work of sheer, entrancing beauty. It's a film that transports us back not just to the sights and sounds of...Tags: James Whale, Movies, The Spirit (movie), Bee (insect), Music Box Theatre
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Gimme the creeps
Halloween is so easy for kids: Slap on a plastic Spongebob smock, hop in the family car and shake down the neighbors for some fun-size Three Musketeers. Once you're a grown-up, it takes a bit more planning. Haven't started yet? Never fear. We're here to...Tags: Halloween, Mel Gibson, Religious Festivals, Jack Nicholson, Hugh Grant
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Hank Azaria: 'Night at The Smithsonian's' Mummy Dearest
Fox59.comSo why, one might ask Hank Azaria, did star Ben Stiller and director Shawn Levy think the actor was perfect for the muscular, reanimated, ancient Egyptian bent on world domination in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian"? "It's kind of my...Tags: Movies, George C. Scott, Jeremy Irons, Christopher Guest, John Huston
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Burton & Depp: Partners in crime
PERCHED together on a couch in a London hotel room, both suffering from the flu, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make for a brilliant comic double act, sharing jokes, finishing one another's thoughts, laughing like naughty schoolboys, goading each other into...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Helena Bonham Carter, Movies, John Barrymore, Tony Awards
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Will they become show stoppers?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWITH this year's Oscars still in jeopardy and the Golden Globes a televised disaster, Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards finally delivered the goods: top-notch stars, outrageous gowns and self-congratulatory speeches. But the nationally televised...Tags: Work Relations, Desperate Housewives (tv program), Contracts, Julie Christie, Strikes
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Michael McKean's L.A. home is filled with singing, dancing and music
Special to the Chicago TribuneHe once embodied shaggy-haired rock stardom as David St. Hubbins in "This is Spinal Tap." This summer, actor Michael McKean dons yet another long-tressed wig to play the aging hippie in "Superior Donuts," the new melancholy comedy from recent Tony- and...Tags: Furniture, Movies, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Chicago Tribune, Celebrities
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High-Art Slasher Film? Must Be By Tim Burton
Zap2It.comTim Burton had already traipsed through China, scouting locations for his next big cinematic event, "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" starring Jim Carrey, when Paramount halted preproduction on the film. Burton describes himself as "pretty devastated" by the...Tags: Helena Bonham Carter, Movies, Jim Carrey, Basketball, Angela Lansbury
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12 upcoming remakes of Hollywood sci-fi classics
Hollywood, Back to the Future: Top filmmakers have already dipped into the sci-fi vault for 21st century remakes of "The War of the Worlds," "The Planet of the Apes" and the upcoming "The Day the Earth Stood Still," so what's next on the revival list?...Tags: Mel Gibson, Ray Bradbury, Guillermo Del Toro, Kenneth Branagh, Darren Aronofsky
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'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'
I admit it: I was a little tough on the first "Night at the Museum." My son and I disagree all the time on movies, yet I suppose it took his delight in the film's simple but surefire premise (to preteens especially) to make me reconsider. Also, repeated...Tags: Amelia Earhart, Movies, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Chicago Tribune, Health
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Gods and Monsters
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday November 4, 1998 Great performances don't have to appear in great films; they don't raise everything else to their level; they can't even be counted on to make co-stars look good. All they do is astonish, which is what Ian McKellen does in...Tags: James Whale, Movies, Kevin J. O'Connor, Bill Condon, Celebrities
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