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A list of favorite old and new flicks for creepy Halloween fun
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comThere's nothing like a good scare to get your heart pumping. And what better time to celebrate things that go bump in the night better than Halloween? In celebration of Halloween, I have put together a list of some of my favorites for the season. Some...Tags: Geena Davis, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber
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Five films fit for Father's Day
Father's Day is a day for family time, and one thing that always brings families together is a good movie. Looking to pop some popcorn today and settle in with a nice, old-fashioned feel-good flick about fathers and kids and warm fuzzies? We've got a...
Tags: Will Smith, Entertainment, Paul Dooley, Terry O'Quinn, Movies
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Nick Robinson hits a high point with 'Kings of Summer'
He may only be 18, but Nick Robinson can teach you how to skin a rabbit. The trick to the gruesome procedure, the young actor learned while filming the new indie movie "The Kings of Summer," comes at the start — cutting away at the rear flap of skin...
Tags: Megan Mullally, Sundance Film Festival, A Clockwork Orange (movie), New York University, Nick Offerman
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: Paths of Glory (movie), Barry Lyndon (movie), Entertainment, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Movies
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Entertainment, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Symbols and Symbolism
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O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock
In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Skype, Jack Nicholson
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'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★
We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Entertainment, Stephen King, Baking Powder, Movies
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Pink Floyd (music group), Sundance Film Festival, Film Festivals
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Philosophy, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Radio, Platoon (movie), Transformers (movie)
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New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic
On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Tony Kushner, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Mads Mikkelsen
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Restored movie house fits big picture for Mark Fishman
Famously, the old Logan Theatre at 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave. used to smell like pee. Urban legends abound of the stink detectable all over the Logan Square neighborhood. "You went in the lobby door, and there it was. The smell of urine. We found out during...
Tags: Politics, Lobbying, St. Patrick's Day, Arts and Culture, Halloween
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Review: Daniel Lutz recounts 'My Amityville Horror'
Whatever happened 37 years ago at the Lutz home in Amityville, Long Island, the extreme spook factor has spawned a cottage industry in books, movies and the online musings of amateur obsessives, both naysayers and believers. Eric Walter's absorbing...
Tags: Long Island
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