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Video/Q&A: 'Smashed' star Mary Elizabeth Winstead
To bond as married alcoholics for the Sundance hit “Smashed,” co-stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul, appropriately, went out and got drunk. “I don’t know what I really learned about myself from that particular night...
Tags: Aaron Paul, Michael Cera, Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Octavia Spencer, Ke$ha
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'Argo' review: Deserves Oscar nominations, not wins
*** (out of four) It’s not easy to make a reality-based, political, action-comedy that stretches from Tinseltown to Tehran and covers everything from Hollywood satire to public hangings. In his first directorial effort not set in Boston, Ben...
Tags: John Chambers, Human Interest, Entertainment, Tehran (Iran), Ben Affleck
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'Moonrise Kingdom' review: Wes Anderson recaptures the live-action magic
***1/2 (out of four) A great rainy day movie, “Moonrise Kingdom”—Wes Anderson’s silly, winning take on young adult literature—sees childhood as a storm to weather and adulthood as a confused search for a dwindling spark. The...
Tags: Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Bruce Willis, Entertainment, Movies
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Grindhouse gets its due at Facets
The sound of the wah-wah guitar on the soundtrack to 1973's "Wonder Women" can signify only one thing: This movie means funky business. Nancy Kwan stars (happily slumming it more than a decade after she first gained notice in "The World of Suzie Wong"...
Tags: Sports, Keeping Up with the Kardashians (tv program), Religion and Belief, Grant Heslov, Meryl Streep
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'Lockout' review: An absolute must-rent
**1/2 (out of four) Add “in space” to “Escape from New York” or “Con Air” and you pretty much get the gist of “Lockout,” an action movie with ambitions only of stupid fun and completely ridiculous, logic-...
Tags: Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
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'Act of Valor' review: War is an action movie?
* (out of four)
“Act of Valor” began as a small recruiting film. Five years and a script from one of the writers of “300” later, that's still all it is.
I definitely don’t understand how the Navy thought the best way to...Tags: Kurt Russell, Nestor Serrano, Central Intelligence Agency, Documentary (genre), Entertainment Events
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'Safe House' review: Notice it's not called "Fiercely Original House"
** (out of four)
Stop me if you've heard this before:
Someone in a government organization (FBI/CIA/whatever) may be corrupt.
A former operative is now one of the most dangerous men on the planet.
Foreign, anonymous villains have no names and...Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Vera Farmiga, Safe House (movie), Denzel Washington
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'The Grey' a Liam Neeson howler, in a good way -- 3 stars
![The title "8 Million Ways to Die" was already taken, so "The Grey" had to settle for "The Grey," named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. Harsh outcomes abound for both man and beast.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67620767-25084113.jpg "The title "8 Million Ways to Die\" was already taken, so \"The Grey\" had to settle for \"The Grey,\" named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. Harsh outcomes abound for both man and beast.")
The title "8 Million Ways to Die" was already taken, so "The Grey" had to settle for "The Grey," named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite....Tags: Joe Carnahan, Unknown (movie), Frostbite, Jack London, Movies
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Weekend Preview: Top five San Diego events v 4
This city never sleeps. Fresh off the Fourth of July holiday bender, we locals are diving into a fierce entertainment line-up, starting with the FLUXX Aquatic Launch Party, followed by the Ray at Night Art Walk, Over the Line Tournament, Dada Life SunDaze...Tags: Sports, Coral Reefs, Dancing, Bars and Clubs, Clubs and Associations
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Darryl E. Owens: Mortal combat: Are parents fighting losing war against video games?
As the father of an avid gamer, I got curious when I learned the U.S. Supreme Court would kick the tires onCalifornia's ban on the sale of violent video games to kids.
But somehow, Monday's 7-2 decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association...Tags: Defense, Sports, Firearms, Antonin Scalia, Games
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‘Halo 4′ review: Master Chief is human after all
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comTechnology-enhanced super-soldier Master Chief has always been efficient, even by military standards. Drop the “Halo” protagonist on any alien-infested setting ...... -
John Carpenter on ‘They Live’: ‘The ’80s never ended’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThe 1980s saw John Carpenter direct films at a prolific clip, a streak that included 1988′s politically subversive slice of ......
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