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5 films with major performances by Nicole Kidman
1. DEAD CALM (Phillip Noyce; 1989) 3 1/2 stars This terrific ocean-going thriller, with Sam Neill and Kidman as a terrorized couple and Billy Zane as their psychopath tormenter, turns a seized yacht into a hellishly suspenseful arena. (available on DVD/...Tags: Tom Cruise, Ewan McGregor, Joaquin Phoenix, Baz Luhrmann, Illeana Douglas
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Quick cuts
Magic Number The $100-million mark may not be as illustrious as it once was, with more than 200 films having reached that box office benchmark, but Robert Zemeckis could become the first director to release two $100-million-grossing films in the same...Tags: Joe Johnston, Television Industry, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Jurassic Park III'
In "Jurassic Park III"the third installment of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg's raging dinosaur seriesoriginal star Sam Neill returns. But Spielberg and Crichton are mostly absent and something seems to have gone seriously wrong with Darwin's...Tags: William H. Macy, Joe Johnston, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Alessandro Nivola
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5 films that are memorable dinosaur pre-cursors to 'Jurassic Park III'
1. GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (Winsor McCay; 1914) 4 stars One of the most charming of all prehistoric monsters, the gigantic yet limber Gertie was the brainchild of legendary comic strip artist McCay, the genius behind "Little Nemo in Slumerbland." In one of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Laura Dern, Movies, Entertainment
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Room for character
Members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are in the process of deciding who will walk away with Emmy Awards next month, and while it's premature to start speculating about winners, it's a pretty safe bet some of them will be kind of, well,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Dennis Franz, David E. Kelley, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford
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'Wimbledon'
Times Staff WriterAbout halfway through "Wimbledon," hot-headed American tennis star Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) admits that her father was right all along: Her feelings for mild-mannered British long shot Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) are messing with her game. So she...Tags: James McAvoy, Comedy (genre), John McEnroe, Hugh Grant, Bernard Hill
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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: Liev Schreiber, Ice Cube, Josh Lucas, Anthony Anderson, Documentary (genre)
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Movie review: 'Wimbledon'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC2 stars (out of 4) In "Wimbledon," Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst play professional tennis players who fall in love at Britain's Wimbledon tennis tournament--but are foiled, at least temporarily, by tyrannical parents, mean opponents and bad line calls....Tags: John McEnroe, Bernard Hill, Movies, Entertainment, Austin Nichols
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'Jurassic Park III'
Times Film CriticThe dinosaurs are getting smarter. The people are getting stupider. A lot stupider. But really, what did you expect? This is "Jurassic Park III," not Henry James, and after two previous films detailing the unstoppable savagery of what grumpy...Tags: William H. Macy, Alexander Payne, Joe Johnston, Movies, Laura Dern
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In the Mouth of Madness
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 3, 1995 "In the Mouth of Madness" is a thinking person's horror picture that dares to be as cerebral as it is visceral. An homage to the master of the macabre, novelist H.P. Lovecraft, on the part of its writer Michael De Luca,...Tags: Julie Carmen, Stephen King, John Carpenter, Jurgen Prochnow, Stranger Than Fiction
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Children of the Revolution
TIMES FILM CRITICThursday May 1, 1997 Imagine, just imagine, that Joseph Stalin had a love child. Could the boy settle down and become a regular Joe, or would his life prove that heredity is destiny? And what kind of a woman would have a mad romantic fling with...Tags: Politics, Rachel Griffiths, Comedy (genre), Cinema Industry, Documentary (genre)
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Restoration
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 29, 1995 "Restoration" vividly re-creates one of the most colorful chapters in English history: the return of the reign of Charles II in 1660 after a decade of dour Puritan rule under Oliver Cromwell. A libertine but also a...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Oliver Cromwell, David Thewlis, Cinema Industry, George Sanders
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