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The red carpet rolls out in town
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CITYWIDE A tradition well established in Cannes, Park City and New York City is making its way to Santa Monica.
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Picking a winner
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Whether it’s the scrappy underdog overcoming all obstacles or the one-time great brushing aside the consensus of being washed up, win or lose, sports films often move audiences by their sheer power to invoke the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat within moviegoers.
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Hero Worship
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MONTANA AVE. — Get the Halloween costume back out, or at least throw on a cape, as the Aero Theatre plays host to “The Modern Mythology of the Superhero,” starting this weekend.
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Politically satiric
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The natural drama of politics has made its way into hundreds of movies over the years. The backstabbing battles, the scandalous schemes and the power to control the destiny of millions is fodder for gripping stories few filmmakers can resist.
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A filmmaker goes own way
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The movie: The Outsider
The director: Nicholas Jarecki
The stars: James Toback, Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Neve Campbell, Mike Tyson, Brett Ratner, Brooke Shields
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Begrudging ‘Nacho’
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The movie: Nacho Libre
The director: Jared Hess
The stars: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Richard Montoya
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Fun and ‘Furious’
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The movie: The Fast and the Furious
The director: Justin Lin
The stars: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang
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Words to wise
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The movie: Wordplay
The director: Patrick Creadon
The stars: Will Shortz, Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Bob Dole, Mike Mussina, The Indigo Girls
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Blood brothers
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The movie: Lower City
The director: Sergio Machado
The stars: Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura
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Charmed, I’m sure
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Movie: A Prairie Home Companion
Director: Robert Altman
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2006 Summer Preview (Part 2)
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Film Critic Dan Dunn previews the summer movie season
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2006 Summer Preview
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Film Critic Dan Dunn previews the summer movie season
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‘Hedge’ finally has clear path to big screens
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Michael Fry and T Lewis have leapt from the funny papers to the big screen — and the big time. In the process, they’ve watched the evolution of their comic strip, “Over The Hedge,” turn into movie magic, courtesy of Dreamworks and its leader, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Director channels his inner Peckinpah
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The movie: Down in the Valley
The director: David Jacobson
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Weary ‘Poseidon’ stars towel off
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Rising stars Josh Lucas and Emmy Rossum consider themselves fortunate that they got out alive after filming director Wolfgang Petersen’s action thriller “Poseidon,” which opens in theaters on Friday. Nearly every actor on the set got what was commonly referred to as a the “Poseidon crud.” Hospitalizations, surgeries, pneumonia and concussions became the norm for the actors on the set. Lucas and Rossum recently sat down to discuss the harrowing experience and how they rose from the sinking ship.
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Cruising for a bruising
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The movie: Poseidon
The director: Wolfgang Petersen
The stars: Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfus, Jacinda Barrett
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Cruise no couch potato
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The movie: Mission Impossible III
The director: JJ Abrams
The stars: Tom Cruise, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup
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‘Akeelah and The Bee’ goes to head of the class among recent rash of speller flicks
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The movie: Akeelah and The Bee
The director: Doug Atchison
The stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer
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‘93’ wounds slow to heal
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The movie: United 93
The director: Paul Greengrass
The stars: David Alan Bashe, Trish Gates, Ben Sliney
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‘Standing’ room not enough
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The movie: Standing Still
The director: Matthew Cole Weiss
The stars: Jon Abrahams, Colin Hanks, Mena Suvari, James Van Der Beek, Lauren German, Amy Adams, Ethan Embry
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‘Sentinel’ stars shoot blanks
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The movie: The Sentinel
The director: Clark Johnson
The stars: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria
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Stereotypes abound in ‘Dreamz’
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The movie: American Dreamz
The director: Paul Weitz
The stars: Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Marcia Gay Harden, Willem Dafoe, Jennifer Coolidge
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Where ‘Wild’ things lack real bite
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The movie: The Wild
The director: Steve “Spaz” Williams
The stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard, James Belushi, Janeane Garofalo
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‘Kinky Boots’ start to fray
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The movie: Kinky Boots
The director: Julian Jarrold
The stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost
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Cheeky charm keeps ‘On a Clear Day’ afloat
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The movie: On a Clear Day
The director: Gaby Dellal
The stars: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Ron Cook
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Having fun with Aniston’s ‘Friends’
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The movie: Friends with Money
The director: Nicole Holofcener
The stars: Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack
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Ensemble cast is just too cute
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The movie: Lucky Number Slevin
The director: Paul McGuigan
The stars: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Sir Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci
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Malibu Film Festival features quality lineup
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The 7th Malibu International Film Festival returns to Malibu and Santa Monica April 7-10.
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‘Devil and Daniel Johnston’ delivers
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The movie: The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The director: Jeff Feuerzeig
The stars: Daniel Johnston
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Johnson’s ‘Brick’ refreshing, innovative
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The movie: The Brick
The director: Rian Johnson
The stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin, Nora Zehetner
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‘Basic’ basically bites
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The movie: Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
The director: Michael Caton-Jones
The stars: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling
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Beastie Boys put fans behind camera
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The movie: Awesome: I F--in’ Shot That!
The director: Horatio Hornblower (aka Adam Yauch)
The stars: The Beastie Boys
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‘L’Enfant’ leaves one waiting ... and wanting
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The movie: L’Enfant
The director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
The stars: Jérémie Renier, Déborah Francois
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Buscemi shows some character as director
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The movie: Lonesome Jim
The director: Steve Buscemi
The stars: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel
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Budding ‘Stoned’ star an artist in own right
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She isn’t a household name just yet, but the artistically denominated Monet Mazur appears to have the goods to make the transition from pretty supporting player to respected leading lady. The 29-year-old Los Angeles native, a diamond in such rough stuff as “Monster-in-Law,” “Torque” and “Just Married,” shines in director Stephen Woolley’s intriguing biopic “Stoned,” which opens Friday.
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Moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone biopic
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The movie: Stoned
The director: Stephen Woolley
The stars: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, Monet Mazur, David Morrissey
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‘Smoking’ comes highly recommended
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The movie: Thank You for Smoking
The director: Jason Reitman
The stars: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, William H. Macy, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall
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‘Guilty’ is a pleasure, despite its girth
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The movie: Find Me Guilty
The director: Sidney Lumet
The stars: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Alex Rocco
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‘Other’ film fest promises forum for directors of all walks in Venice
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Seventy-five filmmakers from the area and abroad — including Australia, England and Germany — will be arriving in Venice this week for the third annual independent film festival known as “The Other Venice Film Festival.”
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With dogged determination
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The movie: The Shaggy Dog
The director: Brian Robbins
The stars: Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Davis
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Wait for the snap in ‘Evil’
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The movie: Evil
The director: Mikael Hafström
The stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Linda Zilliacus
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Ask the cheese
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The movie: Ask the Dust
The director: Robert Towne
The stars: Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, Donald Sutherland
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‘Failure to Launch’ fails to hit the three 'Cs’
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The movie: Failure to Launch
The director: Tom Dey
The stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Bates, Terry Bradshaw
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Oscars’ shortcomings are on display for all at Aero Theater
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Many Oscar voters never get the chance to see the Oscar-nominated documentary short films on a big screen. Last Friday night was an exception. The Aero Theater held an American Cinematheque member reception prior to the showing of this year’s nominees catered by Wild Oats Market.
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Win-win situation: Picking the Oscars
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Columnist Dan Dunn supplies his predictions of Oscar night.
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A man’s search for self
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The movie: Unknown White Male
The director: Rupert Murray
The star: Doug Bruce
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Tsotsi’ role proves worthy of its Oscar buzz accolades
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The movie: Tsotsi
The director: Gavin Hood
The stars: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Terry Pheto
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Only one side to the story
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The movie: Trudell
The director: Heather Rae
The stars: John Trudell, Robert Redford, Bonnie Raitt, Val Kilmer
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‘Eight’ proves more than enough
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The movie: Eight Below
The director: Frank Marshall
The stars: Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood
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Anti-Nazi heroine irresistible
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The movie: Sophie Scholl — The Final Days
The director: Marc Rothemund
The stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
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‘Free’ at last: Unoriginal thriller tests viewer patience
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The movie: Freedomland
The director: Joe Roth
The stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco
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‘Through the Fire’ hits nothing but net
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The movie: Through the Fire: The Sebastian Telfair Story
The director: Jonathan Hock
The star: Sebastian Telfair
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Death quite becoming
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The movie: Final Destination
The director: James Wong
The stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman
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Action star Ford appears ready for new vehicles
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The movie: Firewall
The director: Richard Loncraine
The stars: Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Paul Bettany
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On closer inspection, ‘Pink’ remake stinks
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The movie: The Pink Panther
The director: Shawn Levy
The stars: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyonce Knowles, Emily Mortimer
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Brooks finds comedy in ‘Muslim World’
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The movie: Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World
The director: Albert Brooks
The stars: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch, Sheetal Sheth, Jon Tenney
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Latifah faring better
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The movie: The Last Holiday
The director: Wayne Wang
The stars: Queen Latifah, Gerard Depardieu, LL Cool J
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The trouble with ‘Tristan’
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The movie: Tristan & Isolde
The director: Kevin Reynolds
The stars: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
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Board to tears: ‘Poor’ sheds light on shadows
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The movie: Kill The Poor
The director: Alan Taylor
The stars: David Krumholtz, Clara Bellar, Paul Calderon
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