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'Zero Dark Thirty' named best 2012 film by National Board of Review
"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named the best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The movie, set to open in limited release Dec. 19, took home two other...
Tags: Looper (movie), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), Documentary (genre), Kathryn Bigelow, Searching for Sugar Man (movie)
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Review: NBC's stumble can't mask Olympics' beautiful opening ceremony
Through a fortuitous series of events, because someone knew someone who knew someone, I watched Friday's remarkable opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games by way of the BBC — which is to say, without commercials or Ryan Seacrest and with...
Tags: BBC, Today (tv program), Entertainment, Ryan Seacrest, Music
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More than just a number
OPENED WEDNESDAY Life of Pi Piscine Molitor Patel has a tiger by the tail. The zookeeper’s son has just survived the sinking of a freighter containing his family’s menagerie when another castaway struggles aboard the lifeboat. It&...Tags: Ang Lee, Movies, Entertainment, PG-13 Rated Movies, Denzel Washington
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Isn't it time for a TV show about a South Side political dynasty?
Now that the elections are over, what's good on TV? There are many fine and steamy political dramas set in Chicago. "The Good Wife" and "Boss" are two of my favorites. Yet these shows, like so many others, revolve around white characters. If the national...
Tags: Periodicals, Elections, Robert De Niro, Billy Dee Williams, Kenan Thompson
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'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
Several terrific British acting veterans - including Judi Dench, who was guided to her "Shakespeare in Love" Oscar by this film's director, John Madden - star in this engaging tale of several retirees who invest their money in a site in India, where...
Tags: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Entertainment, Movies
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Telluride Film Festival lineup: 'Hyde Park,' 'Iceman,' 'Argo'
Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael...
Tags: Samuel West, Jacques Audiard, Elizabeth Banks, Music, Israel
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Film director Tony Scott had a pop music sensibility
Some of the signature action films of Tony Scott, who authorities said died Sunday after leaping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, had an unbilled but unforgettable character: music. Scott blockbusters such as "Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop...
Tags: Movies, Music, MTV (tv network), Hans Zimmer, Bob Seger
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Best Movies About Poverty
Blogging with Bill WhiteIn tribute to Mitt Romney and the 47 percent of Americans who are hopeless freeloaders, I decided to put together a movie list of the 10 Best Movies About Poverty. This is a hard one, because there are poor people...... -
'People Like Us' review: Hopefully there's no you in 'Us'
** (out of four) Close the nominations. Contest over. The worst musical score of 2012 goes to “People Like Us,” which delivers such manipulative twinkle-twinkle-jangle-string-section compositions that even the few moments of this melodrama...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, A.R. Rahman
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2012 Summer Olympics preview from “Channel Guide Magazine”
Channel Guide MagazineClick here to visit the special 2012 Summer Olympics preview section, with athlete profiles, TV schedules, news and more. The Olympic cauldron burns bright in London July 27-Aug. 12, as the opening ceremony marks the beginning of the Summer Olympic Games.... -
'Trishna' review: Beauty and the east
**1/2 (out of four) "Trishna" opens as if it could be an Indian cousin of "The Hangover," as Jay (Riz Ahmed of "Four Lions") and his fellow vacationing dudes either lounge and laugh freely or lay around nursing the night before. Few of the women in this...
Tags: Thomas Hardy, Michael Winterbottom, Trishna (movie), Roman Polanski
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'Trishna' moves 'Tess' to a turbulent India -- 2 1/2 stars
Updating "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" from late 19th century Wessex to contemporary India, the protean director Michael Winterbottom combines his love of Thomas Hardy with an instinct for on-the-ground, socially engaged storytelling in"Trishna." The title...
Tags: Miral (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Thomas Hardy, Freida Pinto
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