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'Moneyball' best since 'Bull Durham'

'Moneyball' best since 'Bull Durham'

No jock schmaltzfest like “Field of Dreams,” the whip-smart “Moneyball” is a crowd-pleasing baseball movie for people — like me — who don’t like baseball movies. Thanks to sterling work by the odd-couple team of Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill,...  Read Full Story

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  • 'Limelight' not brilliant

    A confused and confusing mismash of newspaper headlines (many from this newspaper), old TV news clips and talking heads, Billy Corben's...  

  • Needs less kid, more napping

    Needs less kid, more napping

    Actual abduction may be preferable to the movie of the same name, but only if your kidnappers don't tor ture you by forcing you to watch it....  

  • Machine Gun Preacher

    In "Machine Gun Preacher," Gerard Butler says, "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of that hurt a lot of people." But enough about "The...  

  • A Bird of the Air

    Fiona the librarian is a free spirit. How we know this? Because she wears colorfully mismatched clothing, names her car Sacajawea and leaves free...  

  • Gruff assassins' surprisingly thrilling killings

    Gruff assassins' surprisingly thrilling killings

    'Killer Elite" is a snarly Euro-thriller with crust under its fingernails and bad breath. It doesn't care if you like it, which is why I kind of do....  

  • Health-care drama needs a shot in the arm

    Health-care drama needs a shot in the arm

    Chris Evans, terminally bland as "Captain America," shows his mettle in "Puncture," playing a drugged-out lawyer crusading on behalf of health-care...  

  • Toys with your em-oceans

    Toys with your em-oceans

    'Dolphin Tale" is a reasonably uplift ing kids movie if you don't think about it too much. I get paid to think about things too much, and effective...  

  • Pearl Jam Twenty

    It's a shame that, after nearly 40 years of writing about rock, Cameron Crowe is receptive to the clichés of the genre. His documentary "Pearl Jam...  

  • Toast

    Helena Bonham-Carter, who played Freddie Highmore's mother in the 2005 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," has fun as the actor's evil stepmother...  

  • Weekend

    'Weekend" is a gay riff on "Before Sunrise" (1995), in which a man (Ethan Hawke) and woman (Julie Delpy) meet and fall in love in one night, before...  

  • When retirement doesn't work

    When retirement doesn't work

    Back in 2007, reviewing the low-budget indie "Wild Tigers I Have Known," I said Cam Archer -- its young director-writer, making his feature debut --...  

  • New 'Dragon Tattoo' trailer revealed

    New 'Dragon Tattoo' trailer revealed

    Stieg Larsson fans now have more clues what to expect when "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" hits theaters in December. In a new trailer for the...  

  • Ryan Gosling's 2005 DUI arrest revealed

    Ryan Gosling's 2005 DUI arrest revealed

    LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling has kept a DUI arrest secret -- until now. The 30-year-old star of "The Notebook" was arrested on...  

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger set to write memoir

    Arnold Schwarzenegger set to write memoir

    LOS ANGELES -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to write an autobiography that will cover his split from Maria Shriver, as well as his rise to stardom as...  

  • ‘True Blood’ actress replaces Hilary Duff in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’

    LOS ANGELES -- Lindsay Pulsipher, one of the stars of HBO's "True Blood," has replaced Hilary Duff in the upcoming remake of the film classic "Bonnie...  

  • 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson working on album, sources say

    'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson working on album, sources say

    LOS ANGELES -- "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is set to begin recording an album, sources told Us Weekly Tuesday. Though Pattinson has found fame...  

  • The Oscar buzz starts here

    The Oscar buzz starts here

    George Clooney as both a cuckolded husband and a philandering presidential candidate. Glenn Close posing as a man. Kirsten Dunst facing the...  

  • Riding the buzz

    Riding the buzz

    Some Oscar contenders skipped Toronto for various reasons — perhaps they weren’t ready, or their producers didn’t want to subject them to early...  

  • Mark Wahlberg says ‘Entourage’ movie in the works

    Mark Wahlberg says ‘Entourage’ movie in the works

    LAS VEGAS -- "Entourage," which just ended its eight-season run on HBO, will return on the big screen, People reported Monday. "We're working on [a...  

  • 'Lion' King of the box office

    LOS ANGELES -- A re-release of “The Lion King” took the box-office crown. A 3-D version of the wildly popular 1994 Disney animated musical earned a...  

  • Butler opens new door

    Butler opens new door

    For the last couple years, Gerard Butler’s been a Page Six fixture as the rumored beau of Jennifer Aniston and a poster boy for unremarkable romantic...  

  • The 'Breakfast' club

    The 'Breakfast' club

    Fifty years after she first zipped up a little black dress, sang “Moon River” on her fire escape and ate a cruller outside New York’s most famous...  

  • Man on a transmission

    Man on a transmission

    Early reviews out of Cannes proclaimed Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Hollywood debut, “Drive,” a full-blooded return to such ’60s thrillers...  

  • Rom-com bomb for mom

    Rom-com bomb for mom

    You could make a fine film about juggling mommy hood and the job -- from the UrbanBaby.com message boards. That would have to be a horror flick...  

  • Not much feud for thought

    Not much feud for thought

    'Straw Dogs" is one of those movies that sits in an armchair, smokes a pipe and reflects "seriously" on "the question of violence," but the main...  

  • Cutesy cancer flick's got too much emo therapy

    Cutesy cancer flick's got too much emo therapy

    It's not surprising that "Restless," Gus Van Sant's first major studio project since "Finding Forrester" a decade ago, ended up being shifted from...  

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    New York City Ballet's Fall Gala
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    'Twilight' stars in other films
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    The 2011 Emmy Awards Show
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    2011 Emmy Awards arrivals
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