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'Jack Reacher' comes up short, movie critics say
When it comes to kicking butt, Tom Cruise is an old hand. He's done it as an ace pilot in "Top Gun," a soldier-turned-samurai in "The Last Samurai," a globe-trotting super-spy in the "Mission: Impossible" movies, a futuristic cop in "Minority Report"...
Tags: Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, The Usual Suspects (movie), Tom Cruise, Werner Herzog
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Review: 'Jack Reacher' is too much of a stretch for Tom Cruise
In "Jack Reacher," the new thriller starring Tom Cruise, the crime that draws the film's reclusive ex-Army investigator out of the shadows — a sniper gunning down people on a city street — couldn't have been a worse one to land in theaters...
Tags: Entertainment, Robert Duvall, The Usual Suspects (movie), Made in Dagenham (movie), Tom Cruise
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'Hobbit' rules again as Cruise, Apatow, Streisand post soft debuts
It was a ho-ho-ho-hum weekend at the box office, as five new releases failed to draw moviegoers to the multiplex in droves. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was the No. 1 film for the second consecutive weekend, collecting an additional $36.7...
Tags: Entertainment, Les Miserables (musical), Seth Rogen, Family, Christmas
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Is Tom Cruise big enough to carry 'Jack Reacher'?
The opening minutes of the action-thriller "Jack Reacher" unfold with a display of gun violence that will be strikingly familiar to anyone who has been horrified by headline news in recent weeks. A sniper is shown assembling his long-range assault rifle....
Tags: Entertainment, Les Miserables (musical), Thriller (genre), Dick Cheney, The Usual Suspects (movie)
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Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher: See Lee Child's antihero [video]
Jacket CopySee Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Or don't: after watching, it'll be impossible to UNsee it.... -
Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
Jacket CopyEsquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style.... -
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"
Tribune NewspapersDavid Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...Tags: Tom Wolfe, James Frey, Literature, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson
Jacket Copy2011's Bad Sex in Fiction award went to David Guterson's "Ed King," a modern retelling of the Oedpius story.... -
The Morning Fix: Burkle makes moves! Fox News' Ailes gets bigger.
Company TownFriday's Morning Fix roundup includes links to stories about HBO and Netflix, Chelsea Clinton, Ron Burkle and a preview of the upcoming box office.... -
Sorrow for the lost 'Poe Toaster': No cognac, roses left at grave
Nation NowFor the third year in a row, the “Poe Toaster,” who annually marked the birth of Edgar Allan Poe by leaving cognac and three roses on his grave, failed to make to the nocturnal trip.... -
Thrillers, fantasy and science fiction
The Affair
A Reacher Novel
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, $28
Knuckle-busting crime-solver Jack Reacher returns with a story from his early years involving a murder near a military base and how he became a maverick hero.
After the Apocalypse
Stories...Tags: Al Roker, Thriller (genre), Murder, Fiction, Tom Clancy
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Book review: 'The Affair' by Lee Child
Tribune NewspapersI used to have a rural fantasy. Then I started reading the Jack Reacher novels. True, plane rides are now less painful thanks to Lee Child's rough-and-tough hero, a former U.S. Army MP — but I'll never again be able to drive along the lonelier...Tags: U.S. Army, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Cruise, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008)
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