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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Kevin Kline, Wes Craven, Morgan Freeman, Burt Reynolds, Terry Gilliam
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'The Clearing'
Times Staff Writer"The Clearing" is an intelligent thriller that adroitly explores a longtime marriage through the remorseless workings of the suspense genre, in which Pieter Jan Brugge's acutely observant direction and Justin Haythe's thoughtful script allow Robert...Tags: Craig Armstrong, Matt Craven, Helen Mirren, Movies, Cinema Industry
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Movie review: 'Overnight'
TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER3 stars (out of 4) It's with no small irony that "Overnight," a documentary about tyrannical filmmaker Troy Duffy, will play in more theaters than Duffy's only movie, 1999 cult film "The Boondock Saints." In 1997, Duffy sold his script to Miramax's...Tags: Cults and Sects, Norman Reedus, Sundance Channel (tv network), Movies, John Ford
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Pulling Spidey's strings: Filmmaker Raimi sheds cult status
AP Movie WriterCULVER CITY, Calif. -- With great power comes great responsibility, both for Spider-Man and the dapper director who orchestrates the superhero's big-screen adventures. Much like Peter Parker was transformed from gangly teen into the web-slinging crime-...Tags: Bridget Fonda, Sam Raimi, Sony Corp., Billy Bob Thornton, Colleges and Universities
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Movie review: 'XXX: State of the Union'
Tribune movie critic1 ½ stars (out of 4) "XXX: State of the Union" is one movie that, taken seriously, could put you in a real state gloom about the future. Not the future of the country, but of the movies. How is it possible for a major franchise picture starring Ice...Tags: Peter Strauss, Unions, Career and Workplace, National Security, Vin Diesel
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Building the buzz for Oscar
Times Staff WriterThe candidates crisscross the country on tight schedules, pressing the flesh, sitting down for interviews or conducting question-and-answer sessions in packed auditoriums. They appear on television with Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, Charlie Rose and...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Festive Events, Javier Bardem, Sony Corp., Metal and Mineral
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Movie review: 'The Clearing'
Tribune Staff Reporter2 stars (out of 4) Robert Redford was never better than as senatorial hopeful Bill McKay in the 1972 political comedy "The Candidate." Send hate mail, compose a thesis on the merits of "The Sting" and "The Natural"--I won't budge. Redford's mellow charm,...Tags: Sting, Matt Craven, Helen Mirren, Movies, Entertainment
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What's old is new - and perhaps better
Sun Movie CriticWith the last remnants of winter finally dribbling through art theaters, let us now praise summer remakes, sequels and franchises. With trailers rampant and the movies themselves unseen, every question mark registers as a come-on. Around the World in 80...Tags: Keith Olbermann, Alfred Molina, Kenneth Branagh, Mel Brooks, Sam Raimi
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Movie review: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC2 stars (out of 4) Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"in which Bill Murray plays a shaggy-dog American version of oceanographer-filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteauis a comedy that seems to have most everything going for it but the ability...Tags: Michael Gambon, Celebrity Parents, England, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson
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'Overnight'
Times Staff Writer"Overnight" is unapologetically a cautionary tale, but exactly what it's cautioning us against is not always apparent. A fly-on-the-wall documentary that chronicles an abortive directing career, "Overnight" is compelling in a train-wreck kind of way....Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Mark Wahlberg, Billy Connolly, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine
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'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
Times Staff WriterOn the face of it, Wes Anderson's new movie, "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," is an adventure tale about a Jacques Cousteau-on-the-skids-type who decides to pull an Ahab on the shark that ate his buddy. But mostly, like all Wes Anderson movies, it'...Tags: Michael Gambon, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston
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Center Stage
FOR THE TIMESFriday May 12, 2000 From "The Red Shoes" to "The Turning Point," dramatic films about the ballet world have begged the question: How is it that such a serious and disciplined performing art attracts such silly and chaotic people? The callow...Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Kline, Theater, Hope Davis, Jeremy Davies
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