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Say goodbye, not hello, to Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha'

Friday, 5 June 2015, 14:11 Last update: about 12 years ago

Cameron Crowe loves a good failure story, and specifically what happens after a disastrous fall from the top. If Crowe were a character in his own film, the fiasco of "Aloha," and nearly all of his...

'Poltergeist' solid remake of haunted house classic

Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 13:55 Last update: about 12 years ago

It's infrequent and particularly satisfying when the remake of an especially memorable film equals or exceeds the experience of the original. In 1982, "Poltergeist" saw the brilliant pairing of "The...

Restored 'The Third Man' emerges again from the shadows

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 13:56 Last update: about 12 years ago

Sixty-six years after Carol Reed's noir masterpiece first debuted, "The Third Man" premiered again at the Cannes Film Festival, this time in a freshly restored print as part of the Cannes...

Melancholy 'Aloft' buckles under leaden themes

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 13:53 Last update: about 12 years ago

"Aloft" is not an easy film. Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's meditative, generation-spanning drama about a falconer (Cillian Murphy) on a journey to find his healer and artist mother (Jennifer...

Audiard's 'Dheepan' wins Palme d'Or in upset Cannes finale

Saturday, 30 May 2015, 13:23 Last update: about 12 years ago

The 68th Cannes Film Festival was brought to a surprising close Sunday with Jacques Audiard's Sri Lankan refugee drama taking the festival's coveted top honor, the Palme d'Or. The...

The movies that will keep buzzing after Cannes

Thursday, 28 May 2015, 13:21 Last update: about 12 years ago

The Cannes Film Festival is a grand hierarchy with strictly defined elevations of movies and media access, where films are met by high praise or lowly boos. And so there was a...

The shellfish giant: 'The Lobster' makes a big Cannes splash

Thursday, 28 May 2015, 13:20 Last update: about 12 years ago

The Greek director has set the Croisette abuzz with his film "The Lobster," which puts Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in a couples-dominated world where single people are given 45 days to...

'Tomorrowland' likeable and fun, but tries too hard

Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 13:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

There's a lot to like about Disney's "Tomorrowland." It's got George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, robots and explosions, a positive message, and it puts the fate of the future in the hands of two smart...

At Cannes, Norway's Trier maps complex US family drama

Tuesday, 26 May 2015, 13:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

In Trier's Cannes Film Festival entry "Louder Than Bombs," a bereaved father and two sons struggle to console and understand one another after the death of their family's matriarch, a famous...

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