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The Imitation Game

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:41 Last update: about 10 years ago

During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up...

Mr Morgan's Last Love

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:39 Last update: about 10 years ago

From the day Pauline lends him a helping hand on the bus, the stubborn, weary Matthew Morgan stumbles back to happiness. Swept off his old feet by the young woman's disarming vitality and unwavering...

Interstellar

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:38 Last update: about 10 years ago

Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight" films, "Inception") directs an international cast in "Interstellar." With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes...

TV news is the bloodsucker of the moment at movies

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 15:50 Last update: about 10 years ago

Not since Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" have characters been chewed and spit out by TV news quite like they have been of late at the movies. "Nightcrawler" and "Gone Girl" both present portraits of...

'Sleep' a decidedly average psych thriller

Saturday, 15 November 2014, 15:49 Last update: about 10 years ago

Again teamed with Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman stars as an amnesia victim whose brain resets back to 13 years ago after each night's slumber in the decidedly average psychological thriller "Before I Go...

Leguizamo laughs last after being called 'Fugly'

Friday, 14 November 2014, 15:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

He who laughs last laughs the best. And John Leguizamo, who was called "fugly" (beyond ugly) at school, makes use of the nickname that made him suffer in a new anti-romantic comedy that he stars in...

Climate change inspires rise of 'cli-fi' flicks

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 15:46 Last update: about 10 years ago

The giant, inflatable whale in this Gulf Coast city signals not only the arrival of one of the world's biggest documentary festivals, but also the emergence of film as a way to tell the...

6th series of 'Downton Abbey' to film next year

Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 15:45 Last update: about 10 years ago

There is no end in sight to the upstairs-downstairs drama of "Downton Abbey." Britain's ITV network says it has commissioned a sixth season of the popular costume drama from co-producers...

3 below-the-radar films to catch this fall

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 15:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

By all means, see David Fincher's gloriously pulpy "Gone Girl," the elegant, surreal comedy "Birdman," the percussive and intelligent indie "Whiplash" and the staggering Edward Snowden documentary...

The Giver

Monday, 10 November 2014, 16:09 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Giver tells the coming-of-age story of Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man raised in a seemingly utopian world where everyone appears to be happy. This sense of harmony is created by a strictly...

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