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Film critic Peter Rainer reflects on a 30-year career
Peter Rainer, noted Christian Science Monitor film critic, Bloomberg News columnist and reviewer for NPR's FilmWeek, reflects upon his three-decade career in "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era." Rainer,...Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Reviews, Good Will Hunting (movie), Movies, Soups
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'42': Jackie Robinson has to share the spotlight with Branch Rickey ★★ 1/2
"42," writer-director Brian Helgeland's carefully tended portrait of Jackie Robinson, treats its now-mythic Brooklyn Dodger with respect, reverence and love. But who's in there, underneath the mythology? Has the movie made Robinson, a man who endured so...Tags: John C. McGinley, Baseball, Arts and Culture, The New York Times, Movies
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Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies
It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Chicago Bears, Celebrities, Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Reel Critics: '42' hits a grand slam
It's only April, but a leading contender for this year's Best Picture award is already in a theater near you. "42" is the absolutely compelling story of Jackie Robinson. He was the first African American ever to play Major League Baseball and wore that...
Tags: Mystic River (movie), Jackie Robinson, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Watching '42' with children: Is the language too much for them?
The surprise box office success of the uplifting Jackie Robinson biographical film "42" suggests that audiences are ready for a PG-13-rated movie filled with coarse, racially charged language. It also raises questions about whether children should see it,...Tags: Family, Baseball, Judaism, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Review: Pleasing '42' has Jackie Robinson's number
"God built me to last," Jackie Robinson says at one point in "42," and, thankfully, his remarkable story is built the same way. It would have to be to survive the full-dress Hollywood biopic treatment it gets in this film, which is unabashedly subtitled...Tags: Baseball, Movies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Abusive Behavior, 42 (movie)
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Jackie Robinson's widow says '42' hits home
NEW YORK — Above all else, Rachel Robinson remembers the kissing. When the taunts at the ballpark grew too fierce and the naysayers too loud, her husband, Jackie, would come home to their Brooklyn apartment and the couple would try to block out...
Tags: Celebrities, Baseball, Dining and Drinking, Ken Griffey Jr., Movies
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'42' director: I didn't soft pedal racially charged language
Brian Helgeland, writer and director of the Jackie Robinson biographical film "42," expected his new movie would get an R rating from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. After all, the film, which was produced by Legendary Pictures and is being...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Movies, Django Unchained (movie), 42 (movie), PG-13 Rated Movies
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Oscars 2013: Hairstyles, the long and the short of it
Sunday night's 85th Academy Awards style was, as Times fashion critic Booth Moore pointed out, all about extremes. While Moore was referring to the complete red carpet looks -- the gowns, the jewels and the like -- one might have come to the same...
Tags: Jennifer Hudson, Kim Basinger, Reese Witherspoon, Academy Awards, Awards and Prizes
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Kevin Spacey brings star power to 'House of Cards'
It was a steamy weeknight in July on Centre Street, and the extras in black tie were flagging. The $100 million series "House of Cards" was prepping a crowd scene outside the Peabody Institute, across from the Midtown BBQ & Brew. For more than two hours,...
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Reel Critics: Crime doesn't pay for audience
Director Ruben Fleischer served up a campy blood-fest in "Zombieland." Wisecracking shooters eliminated disposable members of the walking dead by the dozen. In "Gangster Squad," disposable gangsters line up to be shot to pieces by a more serious team of...
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For '42,' actor had to please Jackie Robinson's No. 1 fan
When Chadwick Boseman was cast as Jackie Robinson in the race-themed baseball drama "42," he was immediately confronted by someone with personal knowledge of the renowned ballplayer: the late athlete's widow, Rachel Robinson. "The first thing she said...
Tags: Celebrities, Baseball, Movies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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