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Jessica Chastain is Everywhere
The day will come when there are no more movies with Jessica Chastain in them. But right now, that’s difficult to imagine. Since making her professional acting debut in 2004 on television, she quickly...
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Tyler Perry Out of His Comfort Zone
The young woman who happened to be sitting next to me in the packed screening of “Alex Cross” wasn’t expecting to be seeing Tyler Perry in this kind of movie. The detective drama based on novelist...
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A Tale of Two Nashvilles
ABC’s prime-time drama “Nashville” is a TV hit, riding high enough in the ratings that’s it’s all but certain to be renewed for a second season. But how many people watching every week remember back...
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A Movie For All Seasons
Rise of the Guardians came out in theaters last year just before Christmas, but it’s really a story for all seasons—at least two of them. A fanciful DreamWorks Studios animated tale about four...
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Making a ‘Killing’ in Hollywood
No doubt about it, Brad Pitt is a movie star. A big movie star—his films have grossed in excess of $2 billion globally, which puts him in the rarified realm of Hollywood’s Top 40 box office earners of...
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‘Sandlot’ Memories
For a lot of kids, spring means baseball. And for a lot of grownups, baseball means memories of being a kid, playing baseball. Many kids, especially in years past when “little leagues” weren’t quite as...
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The Dinosaurs That Changed The World
Like a lot of little boys, director Steven Spielberg was fascinated with dinosaurs. Unlike any other little boy, however, little Steven grew up to make the biggest movie about dinosaurs ever—and one...
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‘Not Fade Away’
“Movies about music” is so common as a cinematic theme that it almost should have its own category, like comedy or drama, if not its own Grammy Award, likemaybe Most Convincing Performance by an...
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‘Identity Thief’ Is a Wild Ride
Identity theft is no laughing matter, especially if it happens to you—and according to a group that keeps track of such things, there were more than 12 million of you in the United States last year....
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The Queen of The Nile
In real life, Cleopatra was queen and pharaoh of the ancient Egyptian empire, the wealthiest kingdom the world had ever known. In “reel” life, the 1963 movie Hollywood made about Cleopatra some 2,000...
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