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Trio of top actors shines in 'Foxcatcher'

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 16:12 Last update: about 11 years ago

You may already know the story of the Schultz brothers, Dave and Mark, both gold-medal Olympic wrestlers, and their stormy relationship with their wrestling-obsessed benefactor, John DuPont. If you...

New 'Star Wars' film is titled 'The Force Awakens'

Friday, 21 November 2014, 16:10 Last update: about 11 years ago

The new "Star Wars" film has a title. Walt Disney Pictures announced Thursday that the movie previously known only as "Episode VII" has been dubbed "The Force Awakens." Disney also said...

'Homesman' reverses the Western's course

Thursday, 20 November 2014, 16:09 Last update: about 11 years ago

The hereabouts is a tiny, hardscrabble settlement in the Nebraska Territory, sometime around 1860. On the desolate prairie, a handful of hardened settlers try to eek something out of the dry land....

Audio hangs over '7th Heaven' actor's divorce case

Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 16:07 Last update: about 11 years ago

When audio of former "7th Heaven" star Stephen Collins purportedly confessing to molesting underage girls appeared on the website TMZ last month, it did more than just damage the veteran actor's...

A brilliant Redmayne as Stephen Hawking

Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 16:06 Last update: about 11 years ago

The famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has never had small ideas or small ambitions, least of all his audacious youthful quest to find a "theory of everything" - one that would explain the entire...

The Imitation Game

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:41 Last update: about 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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...

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