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Winter doldrums in Movieland
The bleak dead of winter is a time that tries movie lovers’ souls. It’s when over-hyped holiday blockbusters and Oscar-buzzed prestige pictures have settled in for their long winter runs. It’s when...
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Clint Eastwood determined to make films ’til he’s 100
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – At 80 years old, Clint Eastwood says he is not ready to hang up his spurs as a filmmaker. The actor turned four-time Oscar winning producer-director (for producing and...
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‘Hereafter’ looks at death, begins with roar
Bryce Dallas Howard, left, and Matt Damon. “Hereafter” begins placidly enough as it introduces us to Parisian TV news anchor Marie Lelay, vacationing at a balmy Indonesian beach resort with her...
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In ‘Hereafter,’ Clint Eastwood asks eternal questions but offers no answers
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – As an actor, Clint Eastwood has dispatched more than his share of fictional adversaries into the great beyond. But as a director, when it comes to the mysterious passage from...
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The ‘True Grit’ eye patch face-off
These days, it seems that everything in popular culture is fair game for pundits to politicize. Example: When it comes to portraying Rooster Cogburn, the “one-eyed fat man” in the two film...
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Movie review: ‘Adjustment Bureau’ tips hat to romance, sci-fi
Beware of men in sharp suits and snappy fedoras. They just might be efficient and officious agents of The Big Boss, assigned to keep us on fate’s straight and narrow path and prevent us from straying...
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‘Adjustment Bureau’ stars ponder fate versus free will
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – While neither Emily Blunt nor Matt Damon profess to be New Age-y advocates of either free will or fate, each star of the cosmic-romantic thriller “The Adjustment Bureau” can...
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Movie review: ‘We Bought a Zoo’ a shaggy tale with loads of heart
Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon Although it’s far superior to last summer’s toothless comedy “Zookeeper,” and it holds the promise of something warm and friendly from long-absent director Cameron Crowe...
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