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'13 Hours' is thrilling, but too video game-like

Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 15:30 Last update: about 12 years ago

The most surprising thing about "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" is how Michael Bay makes 144 minutes pass so quickly. His excitable camera is always doing something, whether shaking...

'Daddy's Home' a silly romp rife with stereotypes

Saturday, 23 January 2016, 15:54 Last update: about 12 years ago

If you've seen a preview - or even a poster - for "Daddy's Home," you can imagine how the movie goes. Will Ferrell is buttoned up, straight-laced and dutiful, a newlywed stepdad delighting in...

Animation Malta launched

Saturday, 23 January 2016, 15:11 Last update: about 12 years ago

The first animation community in Malta for those that are interested in all aspects of film animation has just been launched. The goal of Animation Malta which has been set up by a group of...

Forgettable horror 'The Forest' wastes star Dormer

Friday, 22 January 2016, 15:54 Last update: about 12 years ago

The January movie has long had a reputation for being among the worst that Hollywood has to offer, as though everyone collectively acknowledges that they need a month to catch up on the glut of...

A new classic is born in pulsating 'Hateful Eight'

Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 15:51 Last update: about 12 years ago

"The Hateful Eight" is not for the faint at heart. What Quentin Tarantino movie is? But while cinema's favorite cinephile is up to some of his old tricks in his eighth feature, this over three hour...

Forgettable horror 'The Forest' wastes star Dormer

Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 15:50 Last update: about 12 years ago

How many great movies could be written across the enigmatic, profound face of Charlotte Rampling? Hundreds? Thousands? At any rate, Andrew Haigh's "45 Years" is one of them. In it, Rampling stars...

Moore 'invades' Europe to teach us all some lessons

Saturday, 16 January 2016, 15:46 Last update: about 12 years ago

Of course Michael Moore exaggerates. Of course he engages in cheerful, unabashed cherry-picking. Of course he sees black and white where most of us see shades of gray. That doesn't necessarily...

The extremes Leonardo DiCaprio went to for 'The Revenant'

Friday, 15 January 2016, 15:45 Last update: about 12 years ago

Alejandro G. Inarritu knew Leonardo DiCaprio would go to the ends of the earth to make the 19th century survival epic "The Revenant" exactly as the famously meticulous director wanted. For...

Savagery and virtuosity mingle in 'The Revenant'

Thursday, 14 January 2016, 15:44 Last update: about 12 years ago

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's frontier survival saga "The Revenant," filmed in the Canadian Rockies, seeks to join the ranks of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse...

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