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Summertime used to be about big blockbuster movies. This summer box office receipts are sagging and even the sequels are having a hard time....
‘Nine Lives’
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It must have been a slow day in Hollywood when the proposal for the vapid comedy “Nine Lives” got the green light.
Or...
Movie feature: Film about sexual assault of Polish nuns after WWII...
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Anne Fontaine, director of “Coco Before Chanel” and “Gemma Bovery,” released her most recent work, “The Innocents,” about a group of Benedictine...
Movie background: ‘Risen’ depicts the Resurrection from a skeptic’s point of...
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ROME — Hollywood is no stranger to movies depicting the life and death of Christ, trying to present Jesus from the perspective...
Morality is off the map in ‘Sicario’
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A deadly game of cat-and-mouse plays out along the U.S.-Mexico border in the ultraviolent thriller “Sicario.”
This all-too-realistic film follows the ongoing war...
In ‘Woman in Gold’ a plaintiff and plunder art film
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The so-called “last prisoners of World War II” await justice and release in “Woman in Gold.”
The elegant lady of the title and...
‘The Pyramid’ lacks a fourth side but includes a robot
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Cross “The Mummy” with “Alien” and you get “The Pyramida schlock horror film about scary things that go bump in the Egyptian...
‘Hercules’ travels with a posse of super mercenaries
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This much can be said for the passable 3-D adventure “Hercules”: By comparison with this year’s earlier cinematic addition to the store...
Same difference: ‘Divergent’ and ‘Hunger Games’
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If Hollywood has its way, teenagers won’t have it easy in the post-apocalyptic future.
“The Hunger Games” started the ball rolling, with its...
Background: ‘Son of God’ movie a love story, say husband-wife producers
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The upcoming movie “Son of God” should be seen as “a love story,” according to two of its executive producers, the husband-and-wife...