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They probably should have called it “Beneath the Dignity of the Planet of the Apes,” but “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is tolerable if you’ll just keep in mind that the original feature was an overachieving B-movie. In this origins...  Read Full Story

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    PITTSBURGH -- Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and about 12 of his Steelers teammates will perform as extras in the filming of the latest Batman movie...  

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    "Mysteries of Lisbon," by renowned Chilean-born auteur Raul Ruiz, is a case of too much of a good thing. Clocking in at a butt-numbing 257 minutes,...  

  • First photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman released

    First photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman released

    Meow! Warner Bros. released the first promotional photos of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in the upcoming film “The Dark Knight Rises." Hathaway, who...  

  • Stale of two ninnies

    Stale of two ninnies

    Sporadically hilarious but more often just plain crass and contrived, "The Change-Up" is a potty-mouthed update on those '80s body-swap comedies...  

  • Examines past with acid redux

    "Magic Trip" draws on 40 hours of some times fascinating, occasion ally tedious footage shot during a famous 1964 cross-country bus trip organized...  

  • The Whistleblower

    The Whistleblower

    Women get sold as sex slaves, then repeatedly brutalized in "The Whistleblower," a pointless drama that trafficks in cliché. Rachel Weisz plays...  

  • The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

    You'd be better off renting "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983) than slogging through this latest, far more dire recycling of the same rock clichés. At...  

  • Indie love with bug-eating and flamethrowers

    Indie love with bug-eating and flamethrowers

    The indie romance "Bellflower" is the story of love at first bite -- of live crickets. Los Angeles 20-somethings Woodrow (Evan Glodell) and...  

  • Gun Hill Road

    Returning from prison to The Bronx and "Gun Hill Road," an otherwise devoted dad (Esai Morales) with a hatred for gays discovers his now teenaged...  

  • Lost Hitchcock film discovered in New Zealand

    Lost Hitchcock film discovered in New Zealand

    LOS ANGELES — Alfred Hitchcock is still surprising his fans. Film preservationists say they've found the first half of "The White Shadow," the...  

  • Miley Cyrus to produce and star in comedy about God

    Miley Cyrus to produce and star in comedy about God

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  • 'Cowboys & Aliens' grabs No. 1 spot over 'Smurfs'

    'Cowboys & Aliens' grabs No. 1 spot over 'Smurfs'

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  • Everything that's wrong with Hollywood

    Everything that's wrong with Hollywood

    He said it, not I. On movies today: “They suck. It’s unbelievable how bad movies have been, right. I mean, it’s just I haven’t seen a run of this, a...  

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