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Hello, Mr. Bond!
Double-oh-wow! Meet the new Bond girl, French sexpot Bérénice Marlohe — who...
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Abe in color
History doesn’t have to be black and white. For this week’s cover story on...
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Makeover complete
Her beauty isn’t only skin deep. After a yearlong, $30 million interior...
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Drunk lawyer crushes her arm trying to get into her Chelsea apartment
Boy, was she trashed! A completely hammered Manhattan lawyer who got locked...
Page Six
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Scientology stop
Katie, look out behind you! After escaping her marriage to Tom Cruise,...
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Indian revelry
Naomi Campbell’s lavish 50th birthday party for boyfriend Vladimir Doronin...
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Fame game
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler’s youngest daughter, Chelsea, says her dad...
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Take off your top
“30 Rock” star Judah Friedlander nearly took it all off at a premiere of...
Sports
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Giants win
ARLINGTON, Texas – You got to give the Giants a hand. The tip of Dez...
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Jets routed
Rex Ryan was frustrated again, a feeling that’s becoming a regular thing...
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Digging a boro
Don Zimmer is chuckling. Entertaining himself with nothing more than the...
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Scoring ouch
The Knicks have few reliable scorers beyond Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e...
Entertainment
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007 Couture
Va-va-voom looks sure to shake, stir and unleash your inner Bond...
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Beauty brawl
Kenya Moore’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta” opening-credits quote is, “I won...
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Hello, B’klyn!
His old Mill Basin neighborhood in Brooklyn hasn’t changed much since he...
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Triple ‘X’ trouble
Dude! Teenage “The X Factor” finalists Emblem3 were almost kicked out of...
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DVD Extra: 'The Paramount Don't Want Me Blues'
One of the most fun extras on any classic film this year is "The Paramount Don't Want Me Blues,'' a...
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Revival Circuit: 'Loves of Pharoah' at BAM
This weekend's must-see for NYC's classic movie fans is a spectacular restoration Ernst Lubitsch...
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Oscar Watch: 'Moonrise,' 'Bernie' lead Gotham nods as 'Sessions,' 'Arbitrage' get snubbed
No film recevied more than two nominations as IFP announced the first kudos nominations of the...
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DVD Extra: 'Take Her, She's Mine'
A staple on TV for decades after its ABC prime-time debut in 1967, "Take Her She's Mine''...
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New York Film Festival: 'Flight'
Denzel Washington may very well be Oscar nominated for his showy performance as an heroic...
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Revival Circuit: 'Call Her Savage' and 'Wild Girl'
The Museum of Modern Art's "To Save and Project: The 10th MoMA International Festival of Film...
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DVD Extra: Hitchcock, Davis, Crawford, 'Little Shop' Redux
The great thing about a first-rate Blu-ray of a classic movie -- even one that's received a fine...
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New York Film Festival 2012 Oscar Watch: 'Lincoln'
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln'' showed as a (not-so) "secret screening'' as a work-in-progress...
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New York Film Festival: 'Not Fade Away'
Paramount is doing David Chase's directing debut, "Not Fade Away,'' no favors by moving it...
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New York Film Festival Scores Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' with Daniel Day-Lewis
A lot of people have been saying that they thought the trailer shown last night for "Lincoln" after...
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MOVIES
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Review: 'Sleep Tight'
Deftly playing on the worst fears of apartment...
By SARA STEWART
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THEATER
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There’s nothing magical in this witches’ brew
‘Let me say right off I’m a witch,” the title...
By FRANK SCHECK
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TV
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Local haunts
A few years ago, on the anniversary of my best...
By LINDA STASI
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What was scary then
When it comes to horror movies, old school can be scariest. Especially when the films are tight, creepy black-and-white chillers starring the likes of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Claude Rains. One of the most... Full Story
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What’s scary now
In the earliest days of cinema, the scariest, terrifying, most unimaginably bloodcurdling thing on-screen was a simple train. The 1895 silent film...
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Poison Penn
Trick or treat. It’s Sean Penn, and he’s dressed as though he’d like some candy, please. For his new film “This Must Be the Place,” opening Friday,...
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Plant rampage destroys city
It’s not often you see a “director’s cut’’ that totally changes a movie for the better. But that’s definitely the case with the version of “The...
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'Cloud Atlas': shrug
One sure way to attract the agreement of the gorgeous blonde in the bar is to tell her she reads as “spiritual.” Or she “seems like a writer.” Or (if...
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‘Chasing Mavericks’ is best when it sticks to surfing
I try to avoid spoilers in reviews, but it’s only fair to warn parents that the supposedly inspirational, family-friendly, fact-based and often sappy...
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Review: 'The Black Tulip'
Afghanistan once had a film industry, but those days are long gone. The arrival of “The Black Tulip,” a movie with large sections that were filmed on...
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Review: 'The Loneliest Planet'
Well-received by critics when it screened at last year’s New York Film Festival, Julia Loktev’s film concerns a young couple, played by Hani...
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Review: 'Sleep Tight'
Deftly playing on the worst fears of apartment-dwellers everywhere, this nasty little Spanish thriller explores just how bad things could really get...
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Review: 'The Other Son'
Israeli filmmaker Lorraine Levy sets out to challenge the set-in-stone views Israelis and Palestinians have of each other with a story of two boys —...
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Ho-hum thrills from dopey ‘Pusher’
Guns, strippers and cocaine by the pound: How does “Pusher” know so much about my life? This nasty but routine drug thriller, a remake of the 1996...
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Review: 'Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story'
Ever since he was a kid, lanky California redhead Kevin Laue loved basketball. The fact that he was born without a left arm below the elbow — and is...
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'Fun Size’ is just no fun
‘Fun Size” deals with high schoolers partying on Halloween, but what about it has anything to do with teens? Is it the poop jokes involving the 8...
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Review: 'The Zen Of Bennett'
Frankly, I had modest expectations for this documentary “conceived” by Tony Bennett’s son Danny, a music producer who reinvented his father as a more...
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Nobody bites for Oscar bait
Dozens of Nobel Laureates working for decades in a secure underground bunker couldn’t have cooked up a more awards-friendly trailer than the one...
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WATCH: 'Iron Man 3' trailer released
The first trailer for "Iron Man 3" was released today — revealing a glimpse into a far more grim sequel. Opening on a suited-up Iron Man crashed in a...
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‘Paranormal’ a must-seequel
Scary-movie fans are still into “Paranormal Activity,” though the horror franchise looks as though it’s close to running out of steam at the box...
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Agyness Deyns to dance
At least one good thing — aside from the absurd catchphrase “Release the Kraken!” — came out of 2010’s “Clash of the Titans.” That’d be Agyness Deyn,...
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Ephron’s family films on DVD
When the beloved humorist and filmmaker Nora Ephron died in June, many of her fans were surprised to learn that her directing debut, 1992’s “This Is...
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Height of cinema glory?
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,’’ recently named the best film of all time in a prestigious international poll of movie experts, wasn’t always held in...
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Ready, willing & disabled
To call Ben Lewin’s inspiring and Oscar-baiting “The Sessions’’ a cross between “My Left Foot’’ and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin’’ may be somewhat flip,...
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‘Cross’ silly cop thriller off your list
Tyler Perry takes off his director’s cap and his housedress to play the alpha-male lead in this cop thriller, which also reveals that Matthew Fox has...
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Imagine more possessions
There is still activity, I regret to report, and none of it is of the normal variety. When will these obsessive home-video enthusiasts learn? The...
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Nobody Walks
A visit from a dull artist making what appears to be an unbearably pretentious movie inexplicably turns the life of an LA couple upside down in the...
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My Worst Nightmare
The French fascination with the clash of slobs and nobs, perhaps most memorably illustrated in the comedy that was remade as “Dinner for Schmucks,”...
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The First Time
‘sex is so much better before you’ve had it,” complains a character in this inoffensive but bland ode to the talky high school movies of John Hughes...
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Ohm me to sleep
Watching this yoga documentary mirrored how I feel about taking weekly classes: The ancient Eastern tradition is demonstrably beneficial for both...
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Bad 25
The posthumous campaign to polish Michael Jackson’s tarnished reputation continues apace with this Spike Lee infomercial, commissioned by Sony and...
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Tai Chi Zero
Action star Stephen Fung (“House of Fury”) turns director for the oddball Chinese saga “Tai Chi Zero,” which features action choreographed by Hong...
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That’s What She Said
Despite recent progress for women in front of and behind the camera, the movie scene still has too few female directors and gives short shrift to...
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Brooklyn Castle
Hard on the heels of “Won’t Back Down,” a movie about a fictitious failing public school, comes a documentary about a Brooklyn public school that’s...
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Holy Motors
The sort of enigmatic movie that many critics embrace because it’s open to endless interpretation, Leos Carax’s exhaustingly wacky French flick...
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Oscar Watch: 'Moonrise,' 'Bernie' lead Gotham nods as 'Sessions,' 'Arbitrage' get snubbed
No film recevied more than two nominations as IFP announced the first kudos nominations of the season today, which are guaranteed to provoke...
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Grope therapy
Playing a polio survivor who’s paralyzed from the neck down in the new movie “The Sessions,” actor John Hawkes gives the kind of performance that is...
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WATCH: First trailer for 'Carrie' remake debuts
Her career is on fire! Teenage “Kick-Ass” actress Chloe Moretz hopes to draw bloody-good reviews when “Carrie,” a remake of the 1976 horror classic,...
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Box-office title ‘Taken’
LOS ANGELES — Liam Neeson’s “Taken 2” barely defended its box-office title against Ben Affleck’s “Argo” over the weekend. Studio estimates put the...
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On his majesty's secret agent
Some Bonds are bigger than others. Roger Moore is one of them. While some deride him for playing up the camp elements of the British super-spy, Moore...
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Big Ben
A blue-chip Oscar contender that’s also a rousing popcorn movie, Ben Affleck’s “Argo’’ offers plenty of nail-biting thrills as well as funnier scenes...
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Nothing to love in this punch-drunk flick
Hi! My name is Kyle and I’m an acerbic. I haven’t been mean to anyone in 12 hours. But I saw “Smashed,” and now I’m having a relapse. Mary Elizabeth...
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There’s nothing shining here
C’mon, Ethan Hawke, you’re better than this. Isn’t there a “Before Sunset” sequel that needs your attention? In “Sinister,” a heavy-handed horror...
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Lower the ‘Boom’
This basically harmless family comedy presents a view of American education only slightly less realistic than the union-bashing “Won’t Back Down’’ —...
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Hollywood's hot new D.I.L.F.
When 47-year-old Kevin James climbs through a window in a waistline-reducing black ensemble in the trailer for “Here Comes the Boom,” out today,...
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Gayby
A straight single woman aims to have a baby with her gay best friend in this amusing New York-based indie. The subject’s hardly revolutionary (“The...
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Crazy like a fox?
Few legends on the poster will attract my attention as much as these: “Written and directed by Martin McDonagh.” McD once wrote a play and showed it...
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3, 2, 1 . . . Frankie Go Boom
The title character of Jordan Roberts’ raunchy, sporadically funny comedy returns from self-exile when his older brother, Bruce (Chris O’Dowd), who...
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‘Picture’ perfect vision
In the first moments of Eric Lartigau’s thriller, Paul Exben (Romain Duris) answers the call of the baby monitor and rises to comfort his crying son,...
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‘Buttons’ just doesn’t snap
Seeing the French Resistance through the eyes of little kids yields a cutesy, simplistic and sentimental would-be fable in “War of the Buttons.” The...
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Middle Of Nowhere
Los Angeles nurse Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) has put her life on hold while her husband Derek (Omari Hardwick) is in jail, halfway through an eight...
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Saw the film & shrugged
Pardon me boy, is this the capitalist choo-choo? Yes, but if “Birth of a Nation” was supposedly “history written with lightning,” “Atlas Shrugged:...
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Simon And The Oaks
The classical music is soothing, the cinematography handsome and the acting strong, but the Swedish coming-of-age saga “Simon and the Oaks’’ is...
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Least Among Saints
Iraq veteran Anthony Hayward is so tough he can take a blow to the gut from a police flashlight, but on the inside he’s pure jelly. So is this movie,...
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Totally awesome recall
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee’s best subject has always been himself, whether it was in his hilarious search for a wife (his 1986 masterpiece...
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New York Film Festival 2012 Oscar Watch: 'Lincoln'
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln'' showed as a (not-so) "secret screening'' as a work-in-progress Monday night at the New York Film Festival. While there...
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Ben at work
In the journalism business, it takes three examples to constitute a trend. Any less than three, and you could chalk it up to fluke or coincidence....
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'Frankenweenie' is a Monster piece!
‘Frankenweenie’’ is Tim Burton’s best film in years. With this expanded, beautifully realized and highly entertaining animated version of his famous...
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Taken for a rotten ride
In the surprise 2009 box-office smash “Taken,’’ Liam Neeson played a retired CIA operative who rescues his teenage daughter from Albanian white...
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Doesn’t even sound good on paper
‘The Paperboy” can’t decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama — so it decides to be all...
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"Fat Kid Rules The World" review
The title character may be morbidly obese, but the jokes and story are thin in the coming-of-age dramedy “Fat Kid Rules the World.” Jacob Wysocki...
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"Trade Of Innocents" review
In a village in Cambodia, Alex, a handsome US Army veteran (Dermot Mulroney) and his beautiful wife, Claire (Mira Sorvino), are fighting the child...
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Delicious tale of the tape
What starts out as unpromising shaky-cam antics quickly turns dark and compelling in this low-budget horror showcase featuring the directorial...
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‘Sister’ a thrilling Swiss miss
Swiss director Ursula Meier’s drama dawdles at first, following its 12-year-old protagonist Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) through his every move as he...
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"Bel Borba Aqui" review
‘A sperm to a woman is like I am to Salvador,” Brazilian street artist Bel Borba muses at the start of this documentary. He’s referring to Salvador...
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"The House I Live In" review
‘it would be one thing if it was draconian and it worked,” says “The Wire” creator David Simon of America’s war on drugs. “But it’s draconian, and it...
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"Butter" review
At times, the Midwestern satire “Butter” is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed. “Butter” is a would-be “Best in Show” of the dairy belt,...
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Stripped-down love tale reaches new ‘Heights’
Emily Brontë’s classic tragic romance has enjoyed a mainstream renaissance lately, thanks to its shout-outs in the “Twilight” series. But this...
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Fresh squeezed angst
Imagine Stanley Donen’s “Blame It on Rio” — that ’80s comedy where Michael Caine slept with his best friend’s teen daughter — taking place instead in...
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DVD Extra: 3-D 'Wizard of Oz' no cause for alarm
The bombshell announcement at the press conference for Warner Home Video's 90th anniversary releases: a 3-D conversion of "The Wizard Oz'' will be...
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Name Check with Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas
On this week's "Name Check," actors Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas stop by The Post to chat with Michael Riedel about their independent movie, "Gayby...
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WATCH: Action-packed trailer for 'Lone Ranger' released
The action-packed trailer for next summer's highly anticipated movie "The Lone Ranger" is out. Armie Hammer, who plays the title character, debuted...
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Dr. Burtonstein
Oh, Shih Tzu. Sparky is probably the ugliest dog you’ll ever lay eyes on. At the Westminster Dog Show, he’d take home a blue ribbon in the coveted...
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Hot, twisted & tawdry
She did what to him? Even if you know nothing else about “The Paperboy,” you may have heard about the film’s most gee-whiz scene — the one in which...
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Sing out, sister!
We've come to know Anna Kendrick as the type-A chatterbox who shows up all perky and bright-eyed and launches into rapid-fire dialogue directed at...
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WATCH: 'Looper' is a hit, man!
Being a contract killer is difficult, if often well paying, under the best of circumstances. For Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the retro-futuristic...
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WATCH: A cappella comedy hits the right notes
"I love you awesome nerds,” says one girl to her fellow a cappella singers at the end of the college singing-group comedy “Pitch Perfect,” and who...
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WATCH: Spooky ‘Hotel’ goes kooky
The monster-humanization lobby has been active in Hollywood for some time now. (Why else would Mel Gibson still be getting work?) The latest pro...
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WATCH: High marks for class act
The rousing school-choice movie “Won’t Back Down” is (already!) inspiring teachers’ unions to protest it with its standard dial-a-mob tactics, but...
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The Other Dream Team
"The Other Dream Team’’ is possibly the best documentary ever made about basketball in Lithuania. But it’s more than just a sports movie: It tells...
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American Autumn: An Occu Doc
Remember “Occupy Wall Street,” the public people pileup of college students who didn’t want to pay their bills, homeless dudes following the smell of...
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‘BearCity’ ready to hibernate
The first “BearCity” was frequently described as a “Sex and the City” with gay men — specifically, the hairy, brawny or heavyset guys known as bears...
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Tale Owns The 'Night'
The latest from French animation master Michel Ocelot is a film composed of six different tales. The framing story concerns an aging filmmaker who...
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Six Million And One
Three brothers and their sister take a heart-tugging journey to Israel and Austria to trace the footsteps of their father, Joseph Fisher, a Hungarian...
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Solomon Kane
Getting a token theatrical release following its video-on-demand run nearly three years after it played in Europe, this cut-rate epic in the “Lord of...
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NY Film Festival Preview
A fantasy epic about a zookeeper’s son adrift at sea with a Bengal tiger. A New Jersey-set drama by the “Sopranos’’ creator that swaps rockers for...
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Bad apple for teachers
Maggie Gyllenhaal has built a reputation on playing edgy characters. Her breakout role in 2002’s “Secretary” featured the actress getting trussed up...
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Suits you, sir!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Bruce Willis! Bruce Willis is Joseph Gordon-Levitt! At least for the purposes of “Looper,” the new sci-fi movie in which the...
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Play bawl!
In “Trouble With the Curve,” Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” character tells “Moneyball” to get off his lawn, and it’s a baseball field. Eastwood is...
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Opening day review: Sara Stewart On Deeply Silly 'House at the End of the Street' With Jennifer Lawrence
"House at the End of the Street'' was not screened for critics until Thursday night, a tactic often employed by studios trying to avoid opening day...
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LAPD drama worth a ‘Watch’
Has any police department in the country been portrayed in a more consistently negative way than Hollywood’s hometown cops, the LAPD? Woody...
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‘The Perks’ of being a best-selling author
What’s the surefire way to guarantee you’ll be happy with the movie adaptation of your best-selling book? Keep the rights and sign on yourself as...
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Floored by ‘Wallflower’
While countless novelists have written screenplays, it’s extremely rare for one to also direct a film version of his own work — the only two I can...
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You’ll ‘Dredd’ this disaster
The Sylvester Stallone fascist police-state movies were bad enough the first time. Do they really think they’re fooling us by calling the remake...
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An essential look at the struggle to beat AIDS
In 1987, in spite of a worldwide death toll of 500,000, AIDS was still a remote phenomenon for many Americans, unaware of the apocalyptic nightmare...
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Fred Won’t Move Out
These days Elliott Gould’s long, saturnine features have sunk beneath a turf of gray stubble, but the nasal blare of his trombone voice is exactly...
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
‘You can see the approach of revolution in clothes,” declared Diana Vreeland, the most famous fashion editor of them all. “You can see everything in...
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Backwards
An Olympic rower in training, 29-year-old Abigail (Sarah Megan Thomas, also writer and producer) has spent the past 10 years locked in a rigorous...
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About Cherry
Dear Penthouse Forum: I was just an innocent 18-year-old blonde when my boyfriend mentioned I should take my clothes off and pose for pictures for...
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Radio Unnameable
Long before Occupy Wall Street, there was Bob Fass, the legendary overnight host on WBAI whose 50-year career is lovingly saluted in the documentary...
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A quirky band of brothers
In “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,” half of the musical duo embarking on an eccentric US tour vows, “We’re gonna change the course of human...
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‘17 Girls’ goes belly up
A 16-year-old girl (Louise Grinberg), beautiful and something of a ringleader among her clique, finds herself pregnant. Entranced by her fantasies of...
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DVD Extra: Happy 60th anniversary, 'This is Cinerama'
The 1950s were a time of enormous turmoil for Hollywood. Movie audience -- which had peaked in 1946 -- plummeted as audiences began abandoning bijous...
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Toronto baits the Oscar hook
TORONTO — Many actors over the decades have received Oscar nominations playing characters with disabilities — and some have even won. There was no...
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Hey, Tom, your crack is showing!
To audiences, it would have been a lame joke in a forgettable John Candy comedy. To the Church of Scientology, it meant war. In 1991’s “Delirious,”...
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Indy’s last ride
Director Steven Spielberg says that out of all his movies, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is one of the few he can get wrapped up in and experience like...
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Golden age
A sad, cold wind blows across the mantle in Richard Gere’s home, sweeping through the empty space like a storm blowing across the Kansas prairie. It...
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Schlock market
According to all these Wall Street movies, it seems that some of these financial wizards may not be strictly on the level. A hedge-fund whiz (Richard...
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WATCH: Trailer for Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
In an unusual move, Walt Disney Co.’s DreamWorks Pictures and Google Play jointly debuted the theatrical trailer for “Lincoln” Thursday. The trailer...
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Don’t look for reunion fable
The tepid high school reunion dramedy “10 Years” enlists seemingly all of Hollywood’s early-30-something actors to play the world’s best-looking...
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Collegiate flick flunks
Josh Radnor is a nice-looking, button-eyed, completely harmless sitcom personality (“How I Met Your Mother,” apparently) who has gotten the...
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‘The Master’ goes back to the gimmick future
‘The Master’’ is the first American feature film in two decades shot entirely in the archaic 70mm film format. But is this anything more than a...
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The Right To Love: An American Family
No one can claim to be blindsided by director Cassie Jaye’s staunch advocacy of same-sex marriage. It’s in her documentary’s title: “The Right To...
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The Manzanar Fishing Club
Well-meant but ultimately of interest primarily to devout anglers, Richard Imamura and Cory Shiozaki’s self-distributed documentary explores an...
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The Trouble With The Truth
Divorced couple Robert (John Shea) and Emily (Lea Thompson) drink, eat and reignite old sparks in this intimate, honest exploration of relationship...
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Step Up To The Plate
Ten years after making a documentary about chef Michel Bras and his three-Michelin-star restaurant in France’s Aubrac region, director Paul Lacoste...
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I’m Carolyn Parker
There may be a lot left to say about Hurricane Katrina, but if so, “I’m Carolyn Parker” doesn’t say it. Director Jonathan Demme wandered into the...
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Francine
Melissa Leo, who won an Oscar for a notably talkative turn in “The Fighter,” here plays an ex-convict who scarcely speaks at all. When Leo does say...
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Cult hit!
TORONTO — “The Master’’ isn’t the Scientology exposé it was rumored to be, despite speculation that its release was moved up a month to exploit the...
