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Movie review: Mark Wahlberg in 'Pain & Gain'
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4/25/2013 7:17:55 PM
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At the beginning and near the end of director Michael Bay's "Pain & Gain" are reminders that the film is based on the true story of Miami bodybuilders who committed a long list of crimes, including torture and murder, in the mid-'9
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Capsule reviews of new movie releases
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4/24/2013 10:48:59 PM
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"At Any Price" — The flowing Iowa cornfields of Ramin Bahrani's sweeping Midwest drama of fathers and sons, farms and seed, have nothing on the amber waves of Zac Efron's hair. As the race car-driving Dean, Efron attempts a classic American icon: the sweaty, sandy-haired, teenage trouble-maker. But the rebel role doesn't suit Efron: He doesn't have a lick of danger about him. In any case, this ...
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Review: Bay's new flick is all pain, no gain
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4/24/2013 9:41:16 PM
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There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our morale and force us to surrender.
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Review:
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4/24/2013 6:56:54 PM
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There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our morale and force us to surrender.
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All 'Pain' - no 'Gain'
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4/26/2013 12:33:58 AM
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Anthony Mackie, Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. 3.5 of 10 R for bloody violence, crude sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug use. Director: Michael Bay Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub Length: 129 minutes
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Kate Upton in talks for movie role
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4/16/2013 7:36:57 PM
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Things never seem to slow down for Kate Upton . Last week, she sent out her now-famous “favorite Tiger” tweet. The week before that, she was (according to every gossip magazine in the free world) dating Sean “Diddy” Combs . And the week before that, she was graciously bowing out of a prom invitation from a high school senior in California . This week’s Kate Upton rumor, thankfully, has nothing ...
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Kate Upton Lines Up New Movie Role
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4/16/2013 6:31:57 PM
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As if sleeping with Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz isn't enough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau now has his sights set on bedding Kate Upton.
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Kate Upton’s ‘Acting’ Career Is Coming Along
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4/16/2013 10:59:25 PM
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Kate Upton is "in talks" for another acting role, this time alongside Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann in a comedy about women getting revenge against a philandering husband, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Other Woman, the movie would have Upton playing one of the cheating husband's many mistresses — not to typecast her ... More »
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Snow White and the 7 remakes
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4/17/2013 4:16:23 AM
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On Friday, Spanish director Pablo Berger offers a fractured version of the Snow White fairy tale with “Blancanieves,” a silent black-and-white retelling of the Grimm classic. But here the six — not seven — dwarfs are a bullfighting troupe who let Snow follow her famous toreador father into the ring. As strange as the setup is, it’s not the only time filmmakers have tweaked the tale. Among the ...
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Tasteless Tale from the Crypt Offers Nothing but Blood and Guts
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4/16/2013 11:30:31 PM
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Robert Bartleh Cummings, better known as Rob Zombie, heavy metal screamer and director of such trash as House of 1000 Corpses, is a goremeister who turns movies into the cinematic equivalent of sonic waterboarding. The new one is a tale from the crypt called The Lords of Salem. It would make a much better comic book. It begins with a coven of witches dancing around a bonfire in 1696. A high ...
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Wheeler & Woolsey - RKO Comedy Classics Collection
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4/13/2013 11:37:10 AM
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DVD Talk Collector Series The very first cinema history book I ever bought, the book that started it all for me, so to speak, was Leonard Maltin's Movie Comedy Teams , first published in 1970. I bought it because it had chapters on The Marx Bros., The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy, but I soon became fascinated with other, more obscure teams I'd never heard of: Clark & McCullough, Smith ...
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Why Vine Is Ripe for Comedy
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4/15/2013 1:48:20 AM
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Over the past several years, Twitter has played a huge part in a comedy renaissance still going strong. Entertainers use the platform to take advantage of trending topics immediately, turning them into brilliant and timely nuggets of standup that might not otherwise make it to the stage in time Yet even some of the most quick-witted writers will emphasize the difference between Twitter and their ...
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