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DVD review: 'Cat Run' has some sharp extras
This overly violent but otherwise frequently enjoyable film showed up briefly in theaters more than a year ago, to little notice. It may have suffered from comparison to “Red,” the Bruce Willis/Helen Mirren/Morgan Freeman/John Malkovich action...
Tags: DVDs, Chris Rock, John Stockwell, Christopher McDonald, Penelope Cruz
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Pic promoters blaze many trails to happy endings: Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2012
VarietyArguably no fest in the world offers a better place to promote a wide range of films than Toronto, with its flood of buyers, international press and wildly enthusiastic local audiences. But with 250 features at TIFF, some seeking buyers, some from indie...Tags: Emily Blunt, Festive Events, Toronto (Canada), Entertainment Events, Yemen
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Film acad invites 176 to join: Hazanavicius, Spencer among new eligible members
VarietyOscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist") and supporting actress Octavia Spencer of "The Help" are among the 176 artists and execs invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences this year. In addition, the Academy Board...Tags: Richard E. Grant, Simon Chinn, Lucy Walker, Terrence Malick, S. Epatha Merkerson
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'Albert Nobbs'
Zap2ItGlenn Close invested heavily in bringing a stage play in which she once starred to the screen, also contributing to the script, and the result was her latest Oscar nomination. She's typically superb as an individual keeping a big secret while working...Tags: Academy Awards, Glenn Close, DVDs, Pauline Collins, Entertainment Events
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'The Woman in Black'
Zap2ItIf his enduring Harry Potter image makes Daniel Radcliffe seem young to play a widower, that's the role he has in this thriller - based on the Susan Hill novel - that succeeds in generating an eerie aura. His character also is a lawyer sent to a...Tags: DVDs, Harry Potter (fictional character), Ciaran Hinds, Daniel Radcliffe, Movies
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Oscar nominations a blast from the past
John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...Tags: Academy Awards, Kenneth Branagh, The Descendants (movie), Terrence Malick, Entertainment Events
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Crashing the Oscars
The Oscars are serious — important people making important, relevant, thought-provoking movies about race, marital relations, horses and Owen Wilson seeing dead Parisians. The dresses and jewelry are beyond fancy. The tuxes are bespoke. Sidney...Tags: Kenneth Branagh, The Descendants (movie), Human Interest, African-American History Month, Entertainment Events
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Deadline nears for Herald-Mail's Oscar Picks Contest
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comOK, so maybe your invitation to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got lost in the mail this year. But you've paid your money, watched the films, then later picked them apart scene by scene with family and friends. So what if you don't...Tags: A Separation (movie), Kenneth Branagh, The Descendants (movie), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Entertainment Events
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'Artist,' Scorsese's 'Hugo' shine brightest in 2012 Oscar nominations
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences paid homage this year to the early days of cinema by bestowing the lion's share of Oscar nominations on two films that are valentines to the early days of cinema. "Hugo," Martin Scorsese's heartfelt love...Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Cars 2 (movie), A Separation (movie), The Descendants (movie), Human Interest
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Scorsese's "Hugo" leads Oscars with 11 nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Martin Scorsese’s Paris adventure “Hugo” leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Also nominated for best...Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Human Interest, Entertainment Events, Rooney Mara, Jessica Tandy
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Oscar Nominations for 2012
Fox 5 San Diego staffAll my friends think I wake up early for the Oscar nominations. It’s baffling how little they know me. I love nothing more in life than sleeping in. And why wake up early to pull an Elvis and shoot the TV screen at the idiotic nominations that...Tags: A Separation (movie), Pentecost, Rooney Mara, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anonymous (movie)
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The Woman in Black
Fox 5 San Diego staffHammer films launched in 1934 and in the ‘50s, after success with Dracula and Frankenstein films, they went that direction in the ‘60s and ‘70s with lots of gothic horror films. They first came to my attention when they released the...Tags: Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Harry Potter (fictional character), Ghosts (supernatural entities), Ciaran Hinds
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