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Pacino, a strong ensemble charm in 'Danny Collins'

Friday, 10 April 2015, 15:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

"I was the real thing once," opines Al Pacino's rock star protagonist Danny Collins in a moment of late-in-life crisis. It's true, the movie, also called "Danny Collins," opens with a 1971-set...

Man charged with stalking Sandra Bullock to stand trial

Friday, 10 April 2015, 08:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A man clutching a love letter when he was arrested in SandraBullock's home as the actress cowered in a closet and called police for help was ordered Thursday to stand trial on stalking and...

Let it go (again)! Disney announces plans for 'Frozen 2'

Thursday, 9 April 2015, 15:02 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday announced plans to make a sequel to the animated mega-hit "Frozen." Bob Iger, Walt Disney Co. chief executive, and John Lasseter, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios,...

Despite its star power, 'Serena' has no spark

Wednesday, 8 April 2015, 15:01 Last update: about 10 years ago

The arithmetic on "Serena" is fascinating. Two of the biggest movie stars in the world plus an Oscar-winning director and a best-selling novel somehow add up to a forgettable, under-the-radar...

Baumbach finds insight _ and laughs _ in aging

Tuesday, 7 April 2015, 15:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

It's safe to say there aren't a lot of movies out there about reaching middle age gracefully and happily. And how could there be? The only thing worse than getting old, as the saying goes, is the...

An urban myth lives in 'Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter'

Monday, 6 April 2015, 14:58 Last update: about 10 years ago

In 2001, a stranger-than-fiction "true story" emerged in local papers about a 28-year-old Japanese woman who flew from Japan to Minnesota and bussed to North Dakota to search for the buried money from...

'Unfinished Business' should never have started

Saturday, 28 March 2015, 14:21 Last update: about 10 years ago

In the years since he strutted onto the scene - lean, handsome, mouth running a mile a minute - in Doug Liman's "Swingers" (1996), Vince Vaughn has become one of the poster boys for the mainstream...

The jumbled machinery of 'Chappie' never clicks

Friday, 27 March 2015, 14:18 Last update: about 10 years ago

It's set in a near-future Johannesburg policed by robots, but it's not about law enforcement or social order. It focuses on the first creation of a sentient artificial intelligence, yet it's not about...

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