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New Releases: 'No' is a savvy political satire
No Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $35.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Formidable Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain does his best work with the sly satire rooted in history — and a recent Oscar nominee for foreign-language film. Gael García Bernal stars as a young advertising executive, hired to craft a campaign arguing for the ouster of President Augusto Pinochet. "No" fictionalizes an actual event, but Larrain also comments on political fervor, social change and how the superficial appeal of packaging can affect both. It's a savvy film, at once cynical and reassuring about why different generations make the choices they do. Bernal and Larrain bring additional...
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New Releases: 'No' is a savvy political satire
No
Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $35.99
Available on VOD beginning Tuesday
Formidable Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain does his best work with the sly satire rooted in history — and a recent Oscar nominee for foreign-language film. Gael García Bernal...
Review: 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone's' title oversells movie
What is it with Hollywood and hyperbole these days? Last week saw "Oz the Great and Powerful" and now we have "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." Calling it "The Mildly Diverting Burt Wonderstone" would have been more...
2013 Fall Movie Preview complete list
The 2013 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Nov. 1. Release dates and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
SEPT. 6
36 Saints
Two New York City detectives hunt for a serial killer targeting 36...
Movie review: 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2' cooks up crazy fun
I have no idea what effect foodimals will have on the ecosystem, and I do worry. But the 3-D animated movie mash-up that creates such exotic species as taco-diles, shrim-panzees, banan-ostriches and, my favorite, fla-mangoes makes for some pretty...
Summer Movie Sneaks complete list
The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the April 28 Calendar...
2011 Summer movies list
May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle Killen. Directed by Foster. Summit...
Where is James Franco? At the Paley Center, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Jason Segal and the 'Freaks and Geeks' cast poke some fun at their missing castmate.
Hart Hanson, the creator of both “The Finder” and “Bones” on Fox, talks about the pitfalls of running a network show.
Tonight at 11 (with encore airings Mondays at the same hour) the Independent Film Channel will begin rerunning "Freaks and Geeks," the 1999 NBC comedy about socially marginal suburban high school kids that launched the careers of a bevy of ...
I don't know about you, but if I were going to assemble a batch of great comedy films that we could send into outer space to help a faraway alien civilization understand what really makes America so daffy and wonderfully ...
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