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Movie review: 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of 4) The climax for George Lucas' entire "Star Wars" series comes in a blaze of fire and darkness, wild light-saber battles and enough Sturm, Drang and digital pyrotechnics to fill multiplexes from here to Tatooine. Like some grand,...Tags: Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, Entertainment, Fiction, Ian McDiarmid
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Movie review, 'Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring'
Hobbits and hobbit-lovers everywhere can rejoice, along with all moviegoers with a taste for fantasy, far-off kingdoms and great swashbuckling adventure stories. Peter Jackson's movie of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring," first part of a...Tags: Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Entertainment, Ian Holm, John Gilbert
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A towering success
Sun Movie CriticSome people would pay to hear actor Ian McKellen read the phone book. I'd pay to see Peter Jackson - who is directing him in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - film anything from the Gilgamesh Epic to Roberts' Rules of Order. In The Two Towers, Jackson...Tags: Ian McKellen, Brad Dourif, Entertainment, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Orlando Bloom
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Movie review, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" takes us back to J.R.R. Tolkien's land of myth and fury - and the return quest is even more staggering and marvelous than last year's maiden voyage. Concentrating on the middle book of the Middle Earth saga, Peter...Tags: Ian McKellen, Entertainment, Akira Kurosawa, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin
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'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
Times Staff WriterWhen the final chapter closes on Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," the whole extravaganza -- three features, nine hours and a catalog of characters as seemingly infinite as the films' crew -- may well be heralded as...Tags: Ian McKellen, Entertainment, Leni Riefenstahl, Orlando Bloom, Dog (animal)
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A towering triumph
Tribune movie critic"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" takes us back to J.R.R. Tolkien's land of myth and fury and the return quest is even more staggering and marvelous than last year's maiden voyage. Concentrating on the middle book of the Middle Earth saga, Peter...Tags: Ian McKellen, Entertainment, Dominic Monaghan, Gaming, Sean Astin
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Movie review: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic4 stars (out of 4) One "Ring" - finally - rules them all. In "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," a great mythic movie cycle gets the ending it deserves - and we can finally see this stunningly completed film trilogy for what it is: one of...Tags: Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Entertainment, Ian Holm, Crimes
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Movie review, 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' by Michael Wilmington
George Lucas has the last laugh, or at least the penultimate chuckle, with "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones." The fifth movie in his long-running series of grandiose, light-hearted space operas and the second in chronological order is the...Tags: Entertainment, Science Fiction (genre), Ian McDiarmid, Natalie Portman, Television
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Sleepy Hollow
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 19, 1999 "Heads Will Roll" is more than a clever tag line for Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow." It's a bemused truth-in-advertising warning from a director who's told interviewers, "I've always wanted to make a movie where one of the...Tags: Jane Austen, Francis Ford Coppola, Entertainment, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
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Universal themes
Sun Movie CriticAre you hurt?" e-mailed a friend in mockery of the Saturday-serial dialogue style in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. "Are you blind?" I e-mailed back. For the latest entry in George Lucas' transgalactic saga of the moral rise and fall of...Tags: Entertainment, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Television
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First trilogy installment triumphs with skill, passion
Los Angeles Times Film CriticWith an endeavor like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it's the numbers that catch your eye firstand how could they not? An unprecedented three feature films shot simultaneously in 274 days spread over 15 months at a cost of nearly $300 million are...Tags: Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Entertainment, New Zealand, Orlando Bloom
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Killed or missing, but not forgotten in the wake of attacks
A partial list of those killed in Tuesday's terrorist attacks or still unaccounted for. American Airlines Flight 11 Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into World Trade Center CREW: John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Mass., captain Thomas McGuinness, 42,...Tags: Manchester (Hillsborough, New Hampshire), Jesus Sanchez, Oracle Corp., Gaming, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia)
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