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Summer Storm
Zap2It.com"Summer Storm" is a contemporary teen summer romance with a modern sexual twist--though in many ways, it's just the same old malarkey. Set at a Bavarian summer camp for high school rowing teams, the dramatic focus here is on a young gay coxswain-captain's...Tags: Entertainment, Drama (genre), Chicago Tribune, Douglas Sirk, Comedy (genre)
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News and Notes from the L.A. Film Festival
![Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and martinis and hopefully watch whichever film will become the next "March of the Penguins" or "Sideways."](http://images.zap2it.com/20060703/gregkinnear_littlemisssunsh.jpg "Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and martinis and hopefully watch whichever film will become the next "March of the Penguins\" or \"Sideways.\"")
Zap2It.comHollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and...Tags: Genres, FIFA World Cup, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sigourney Weaver, 24 (tv program)
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'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'
![With the fantasy kicked up a notch and a new director, Harry Potter catches 'Fire.'It's taken them long enough, but the movies have finally gotten Harry Potter right. Despite the reported $2.7 billion earned by the series' three previous attempts, it's not until "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" that a film has successfully re-created the sense of stirring magical adventure and engaged, edge-of-your-seat excitement that has made the books such an international phenomenon.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-11/20527699.jpg "With the fantasy kicked up a notch and a new director, Harry Potter catches 'Fire.'It's taken them long enough, but the movies have finally gotten Harry Potter right. Despite the reported $2.7 billion earned by the series' three previous attempts, it's not until "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\" that a film has successfully re-created the sense of stirring magical adventure and engaged, edge-of-your-seat excitement that has made the books such an international phenomenon.")
Times Staff WriterWith the fantasy kicked up a notch and a new director, Harry Potter catches 'Fire.'It's taken them long enough, but the movies have finally gotten Harry Potter right. Despite the reported $2.7 billion earned by the series' three previous attempts, it's...Tags: Cinema Industry, Emma Watson, Fiction, Patrick Doyle, Chris Columbus
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'Night Watch'
!["As long as humanity has existed," the somber voice intones, "there have been Others among us: witches, sorcerers, shape-shifters." And for as long as the movies have existed, they have cashed in on human curiosity about just what those Others might be up to.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-02/21994896.jpg ""As long as humanity has existed,\" the somber voice intones, \"there have been Others among us: witches, sorcerers, shape-shifters.\" And for as long as the movies have existed, they have cashed in on human curiosity about just what those Others might be up to.")
Times Staff Writer"As long as humanity has existed," the somber voice intones, "there have been Others among us: witches, sorcerers, shape-shifters." And for as long as the movies have existed, they have cashed in on human curiosity about just what those Others might be up...Tags: Entertainment, Genres, Moscow (Russia), Movies, Russia
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'MirrorMask'
![Although the plot and motifs are largely borrowed from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland," there is something oddly intoxicating about Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's coming-of-age fantasy "MirrorMask." The teenager's journey through a nightmarish reverie presents hallucinogenic imagery that simultaneously dulls the senses and hot-wires the imagination, but it never fully engages emotionally.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-09/19724692.jpg "Although the plot and motifs are largely borrowed from "The Wizard of Oz\" and \"Alice in Wonderland,\" there is something oddly intoxicating about Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's coming-of-age fantasy \"MirrorMask.\" The teenager's journey through a nightmarish reverie presents hallucinogenic imagery that simultaneously dulls the senses and hot-wires the imagination, but it never fully engages emotionally.")
Times Staff WriterAlthough the plot and motifs are largely borrowed from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland," there is something oddly intoxicating about Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's coming-of-age fantasy "MirrorMask." The teenager's journey through a nightmarish...Tags: Entertainment, Burt Bacharach, Circuses, Helena Bonham Carter, PG Rated Movies
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'Catch and Release'
![Neither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, "Catch and Release," the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich," "In Her Shoes"), is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable charm.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-01/27566630.jpg "Neither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, "Catch and Release,\" the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant (\"Erin Brockovich,\" \"In Her Shoes\"), is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable charm.")
Times Staff WriterNeither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, "Catch and Release," the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich," "In Her Shoes"), is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable...Tags: Julia Roberts, Education, Movies, Entertainment, Drama (genre)
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Movie review: Confessions of a Shopaholic -- 3 out of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticConfessions of a Shopaholic is a lot more in sync with the zeitgeist than you'd expect from a movie with that title. A dizzy and chic chick picture for our times, this hit-or-miss comedy is about the perils of conspicuous consumption, the void that...Tags: New York, Eyewear, Roger Moore, Confessions of a Shopaholic (movie), Movies
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John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was...Tags: Alfred Kazin, Health, Edward Hopper, Pennsylvania, Harold Bloom
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Ursula K. Le Guin's work still resonates with readers
Forest Park is one of the largest patches of urban wilderness in the United States, and the Victorian homes and gardens nearby create an air of Tolkienesque enchantment. Right around here in fact, one of Tolkien's heirs labors in a century-old house....Tags: Genres, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), University of California, Anthropology, Arthur C. Clarke
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Review: 'Inkheart'
![In the fashionably medieval-tinged fantasy adventure "Inkheart," contemporary people known as Silvertongues bring literary characters to life simply by reading aloud from the pages in which they exist. One of the drawbacks to this unasked-for abracadabra -- and there are several -- is that the transformation requires an exchange: For every fictional person or animal or thing that crosses into the here and now, an innocent flesh-and-blood bystander gets whooshed into the book. One such inadvertent spell cost a Silvertongue named Mortimer his wife, when their daughter was just an infant.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44655508-22160119.jpg "In the fashionably medieval-tinged fantasy adventure "Inkheart,\" contemporary people known as Silvertongues bring literary characters to life simply by reading aloud from the pages in which they exist. One of the drawbacks to this unasked-for abracadabra -- and there are several -- is that the transformation requires an exchange: For every fictional person or animal or thing that crosses into the here and now, an innocent flesh-and-blood bystander gets whooshed into the book. One such inadvertent spell cost a Silvertongue named Mortimer his wife, when their daughter was just an infant.")
In the fashionably medieval-tinged fantasy adventure "Inkheart," contemporary people known as Silvertongues bring literary characters to life simply by reading aloud from the pages in which they exist. One of the drawbacks to this unasked-for...Tags: Entertainment, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Connelly, Movies
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'Compass' Points to Thrills, Not Controversy
![Amid all the media foofaraw over whether Philip Pullman's books promote child atheism, deicide or anti-Catholic sentiment, one thing rarely gets mentioned: "The Golden Compass," the first book in Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, barely cracks the lid on the series' darker secrets. It's pure introductory adventure, meant to immerse readers in Pullman's richly complicated fantasy universe. He doesn't start lowering the boom until the book's final sequence, and since writer-director Chris Weitz excises that ending altogether in order to take his "Golden Compass" film adaptation out on a high note, "Compass" at least is fairly child-safe. It's more a gateway drug than a wholesale plunge into dangerous theology.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-12/34133141-07073535.jpg "Amid all the media foofaraw over whether Philip Pullman's books promote child atheism, deicide or anti-Catholic sentiment, one thing rarely gets mentioned: "The Golden Compass,\" the first book in Pullman's \"His Dark Materials\" trilogy, barely cracks the lid on the series' darker secrets. It's pure introductory adventure, meant to immerse readers in Pullman's richly complicated fantasy universe. He doesn't start lowering the boom until the book's final sequence, and since writer-director Chris Weitz excises that ending altogether in order to take his \"Golden Compass\" film adaptation out on a high note, \"Compass\" at least is fairly child-safe. It's more a gateway drug than a wholesale plunge into dangerous theology.")
Zap2It.comAmid all the media foofaraw over whether Philip Pullman's books promote child atheism, deicide or anti-Catholic sentiment, one thing rarely gets mentioned: "The Golden Compass," the first book in Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, barely cracks the...Tags: Christianity, Peter Jackson, Children, Movies, Sam Elliott
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Jon Favreau's preparation pays off in 'Iron Man'
Sentinel Movie CriticJon Favreau heard the whispers, the murmurs of "What the hey?" when he was selected by Marvel Studios to turn the comic-book empire's Iron Man into a movie. He heard them again when he talked the studio into casting Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron...Tags: Entertainment, Jeff Bridges, Spider-Man (fictional character), San Diego (San Diego, California), History
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