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Pakistan stops showing Indian movies over Kashmir tensions

Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 15:28 Last update: about 11 years ago

Pakistani cinemas have stopped showing Indian films after India banned Pakistani actors from its movie industry amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir,...

3 years after '12 Years,' Nyong'o's face is back on screen

Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 15:26 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Indian-born, New York-based Nair has been close friends with Nyong'o's family for years. One of Nyong'o's first jobs in the movies was interning in New York for Nair's production company. She also...

Nate Parker unapologetic in '60 Minutes' interview

Saturday, 8 October 2016, 16:02 Last update: about 11 years ago

In an interview with "60 Minutes," Nate Parker was unapologetic for a 17-year-old rape case that has surrounded his film, "The Birth of a Nation." In excerpts from the interview to air Sunday...

In 'American Honey,' finding family in a hopeless place

Friday, 7 October 2016, 16:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The face filmmaker Andrea Arnold makes at the thought of storyboarding her films is the kind of bitter, disgusted look most people reserve for a bath full of leeches. Once her "Eww!" has receded,...

In 'Deepwater Horizon,' an ecological disaster's human toll

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 15:59 Last update: about 11 years ago

The name Deepwater Horizon is synonymous to most with environmental catastrophe and corporate negligence. For Mike Williams, who survived the April 2010 oil-rig explosion by plunging into the Gulf of...

'Amanda Knox' pulls back the curtain on a media circus

Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 15:58 Last update: about 11 years ago

Amanda Knox stares into the camera, coolly contemplating how she became a figure of global fascination. "I think people love monsters. And so when they get the chance, they want to see them. It's...

A Holocaust denier is brought to justice in 'Denial'

Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 15:55 Last update: about 11 years ago

Based on Deborah Lipstadt's book "History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier," the film depicts when the unapologetically anti-Semitic historian David Irving brought a libel suit...

Flush with opportunities, Chris Pratt plays a new hand

Monday, 3 October 2016, 16:17 Last update: about 11 years ago

The offer to star in Antoine Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven" came to Chris Pratt while he was on a hunting trip with friends, listening to an audio book of Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove." Having...

In 'Storks,' a dormant baby delivery business

Sunday, 2 October 2016, 16:16 Last update: about 11 years ago

The question of "Where do babies come from?" has been answered, throughout movie history, with some unsavory characters. In the case of "Rosemary's Baby," a demonic neighbor was to blame. In "Knocked...

Riveting 'Deepwater Horizon' captivates throughout

Saturday, 1 October 2016, 16:15 Last update: about 11 years ago

We all know how "Deepwater Horizon " ends. When the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, 11 people died and millions of gallons of oil spewed into the waters and up against the Gulf...

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