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John Legend to voice, produce a virtual reality series

Friday, 21 April 2017, 16:22 Last update: about 10 years ago

Legend will executive produce and lend his voice to the title character of the upcoming Baobab Studios series "Rainbow Crow." The production company was to announce Legend's involvement Tuesday. The...

'Their Finest' stylishly blends wit, romance in WWII

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 16:21 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Their Finest " is a movie about making a movie, specifically a glossy propaganda film meant to bolster morale in Britain in the darkest days of the Second World War. It is also very much a...

In 'The Boss Baby,' it's clear who wears the diapers

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 16:21 Last update: about 10 years ago

Some of the best animated films have been inspired by fairy tales, ancient Greek fables or mythology. Now comes one clearly inspired by, of all people, David Mamet. The creators of "The Boss...

Big-screen 'CHIPS' a tawdry, sexist disappointment

Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 16:20 Last update: about 10 years ago

"CHiPs" was a wholesome TV show in the 1970s and '80s about two California Highway Patrol officers. They were a couple of good-natured guys who embodied California cool with their motorcycles and...

'The Zookeeper's Wife' tells a riveting true story

Saturday, 15 April 2017, 15:37 Last update: about 10 years ago

In German-occupied Poland during the darkest days of World War II, a zookeeper and his wife managed to save the lives hundreds of Jewish people, many of whom were detained in the Warsaw Ghetto, by...

Malick gets some life back in 'Song to Song'

Friday, 14 April 2017, 15:36 Last update: about 10 years ago

As filmmakers obsessed with his early work continue to ape his style, Terrence Malick has ventured beyond, reaching into territory that is stubbornly spiritual and anti-narrative. He eschews story...

In 'Get Out,' the two-faced horrors of racism

Thursday, 13 April 2017, 15:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date's liberal family in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar...

A 'Beauty and the Beast' with a new dimension

Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 15:33 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Disney "live-action" remakes, of which the new "Beauty and the Beast" is but one in an assembly line, are starting to resemble an iPhone software update. Click a button and that old cartoon...

A schmaltzy history lesson in 'Bitter Harvest'

Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 15:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

Yep, that's the tagline for "Bitter Harvest," the new movie about young love during the Holodomor, the 1932-33 forced famine in Ukraine orchestrated by Josef Stalin that killed millions. And if it...

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