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A mermaid, a fashion film, a bath bomb and 'The Great Gatsby' [Updated 4:37 p.m. May 10]
Members of L.A.’s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-...
Tags: Explosions, Stranger Than Fiction, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Music, Arts
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Goldberg: Sci-fi worthy of Malthus
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it. This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had...
Tags: Oblivion (movie), Viral Diseases and Infections, Environmental Issues, Fiction, Science and Technology
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Review: Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' a sci-fi adventure to remember
"Oblivion" will make you remember, not forget. This Tom Cruise vehicle is a throwback to the days when on-screen science fiction was about speculative ideas rather than selling toys to tots — think of it as the most expensive episode of "The...
Tags: Rod Serling, Olga Kurylenko, Washington Monument, Oblivion (movie), Movies
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Netflix goes sci-fi with the Wachowskis
Netflix is going big with its next original series. After tapping the talents of David Fincher and Eli Roth for previous productions, the online outfit is getting Andy and Lana Wachowski, creators of "The Matrix" series, who will work with J. Michael...
Tags: Netflix Inc., Doctor Who (tv program), Stephen Colbert, Lana Wachowski, Fiction
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International Women’s Day: Superheroines with some kick
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesInternational Women's Day is being honored today with that singular cultural touchstone: a Google Doodle. The doodle drawing of faces ...... -
Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: Alexander Payne, The Descendants (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), There Will Be Blood (movie), Magnolia (movie)
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Database catalogs movie firearms
This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty," the TV western "Justified" and the military video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Korean War (1950-1953), Jeremy Renner, University of California, Santa Barbara
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No standing for Ovation. Sirius XM names new CEO! Comcast soars.
After the coffee. Before packing in case the Mayans are right. The Skinny: It's cold here! What's up with that? Wednesday's headlines include Time Warner Cable dropping the little arts channel Ovation and a review of "Zero Dark Thirty." Also,...
Tags: Jimmy Savile, Super Bowl, Fiction, Comcast Corporation, Magic Johnson
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The books behind the new films at the Library of Congress [Video]
The Library of Congress announced the names of 25 films Wednesday that are to be enshrined in its National Film Registry. Of those 25, 5-1/2 were based on books or stories. The half? Read on. The 1983 film "A Christmas Story" -- with Ralphie, a frozen...
Tags: Movies, Fiction, Authors, Libraries, Library of Congress
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A quirky recap of fall's top films—in verse!
Thanksgiving was fast approaching, and the holiday blockbusters were about to start. But I still hadn't seen any of the big fall movies. How was I ever going to catch up? If I failed to make up the deficit, I wouldn't be able to outguess Roger Ebert in...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Movies, Keira Knightley, Music
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Holdover 'Argo' beats four newcomers on slow moviegoing weekend
Moviegoers had four new films to choose from at the box office this weekend, but "Argo" — the well-reviewed film that has been out for 17 days — still seemed like a better option to most. Ben Affleck's political thriller claimed the top...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Movies, Celebrities, Tom Hanks, Hannah Montana (tv program)
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Patt Morrison Asks: The Possibilian, Kevin Kelly
This is a Klein bottle, a kind of Mobius strip rendered in glass. The man holding it has a brain not unlike these confounding items, possessed of unusual twists and multidimensional turns that can be challenging for lesser mortals to get their own heads...Tags: Social Media, Biology, Movies, Science, Economy, Business and Finance
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