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Film review: 'Playing for Keeps' should be lost
Special to The Herald-MailIt is clear from its opening weekend that "Playing for Keeps" is one of the biggest bombs of the year, both critically and commercially. Review database Rotten Tomatoes has it at a 2-percent "Fresh" rating for its one positive review vs. 59 negative...Tags: Uma Thurman, Entertainment, Movies, Popcorn, Dennis Quaid
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Deadline nears for Herald-Mail's Oscar Picks Contest
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comOK, so maybe your invitation to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got lost in the mail this year. But you've paid your money, watched the films, then later picked them apart scene by scene with family and friends. So what if you don't...Tags: The Help (movie), Kristen Wiig, A Better Life (movie), Michelle Williams, Grant Heslov
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Film review: "Contraband" should have smuggled in a better storyline
Special to The Herald-MailThe first few months of the year are traditionally the worst as far as getting decent new movies. Mega-blockbusters usually open in the summer or around the holidays. Lately, the release slates in March and April have been gaining steam as well. But...Tags: Diego Luna, Giovanni Ribisi, Crime, Law and Justice, Kate Beckinsale, Academy Awards
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Film review: 'Underworld: Awakening' shows a violent side of Beckinsale
Special to The Herald-MailLast week in my review of the lousy "Contraband," I wrote that January and February generally consist of a miserable slate of new releases. The principle is that if a movie were any good, it would be released in the summer or near a holiday where it could...Tags: Stephen Rea, Movies, Underworld: Awakening (movie), Kate Beckinsale, R Rated Movies
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Black and white and 'Blue' catch the attention
CANNES, France -- Paradox! This is how it goes here: Just as the weather deigns to become a thing of sun-splashed French Riviera wonder, the 66th Cannes Film Festival responds with an 8:30 a.m. world premiere of "Nebraska," director Alexander Payne's...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Will Forte, Film Festivals, Movies, Entertainment
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Cannes 2013: Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' draws strong notices
Alexander Payne’s new movie, “Nebraska,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to largely favorable yet occasionally qualified reviews. The film focuses on an aging resident of Montana (Bruce Dern) who's convinced he's won $1 million...
Tags: Will Forte, Film Festivals, Entertainment, Movies, Ryan Gosling
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Alexander Payne feels at home with 'Nebraska'
CANNES, France — Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else'...Tags: Will Forte, Czech Republic, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, Film Festivals
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Cannes honcho Thierry Fremaux is Hollywood's inside man
VarietyWhen Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" raises the curtain on the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, it will serve, among other things, as an indication that the love affair between the festival and Hollywood is alive and well — much more than the last...Tags: The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Rust & Bone (movie), Film Festivals, Movies, Entertainment
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Newport Beach and L.A. Children's Film Festival among highlights
The TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place Thursday through Sunday in Hollywood, isn't the only high-profile fest this weekend. The 14th annual Newport Beach Film Festival kicks off Thursday evening at the Edwards Big Newport with the West Coast...
Tags: Sam Rockwell, Chinatown (movie), Film Festivals, Movies, The Iceman (movie)
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Sighting: Lady Gaga works out at Reform Chicago Pilates studio
Lady Gaga is back on her feet, a pilates studio owner says. The "Poker Face" singer — who has been photographed getting around in a wheelchair since canceling her world tour in February to undergo hip surgery — worked out April 11 at...
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Interview: 'The Call' star David Otunga finds himself in the center of the ring
David Otunga had little time to order food Friday during lunchtime at Howells & Hood in the Tribune Tower — not with his hectic press tour running late and a live TV appearance up next — so the Elgin native and WWE Superstar settled for just a...
Tags: The CW (tv network), Tribune Tower, Nikita (tv program), Pierre Thomas, Michigan Avenue
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Toss up a bottle for the author of 'Cocktail'
Before it became a lucrative if critically drubbed exemplar of '80s cinematic cheese, the Tom Cruise vehicle "Cocktail" first sprang to life as a novel by Heywood Gould, who based the book on his experiences bartending throughout New York in the 1970s....
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