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With four films in awards contention, Fox Searchlight has a plan
It's not unusual for a specialty film label to juggle multiple contenders going into awards season. But it's pretty rare to be pushing the majority of your releases in a single year. That's the situation Fox Searchlight is in as four of its seven 2012...Tags: Sound of My Voice (movie), Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Movies, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Golden Globe Awards
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'The Sessions' based on true story
Given that it's based on the true story of a man with polio who spends most of his time in an iron lung, “The Sessions” is not as painfully heavy-handed as it might sound. And given that it's about this man's nervous attempts to lose his...
Tags: William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, The Sessions (movie), John Hawkes, Polio
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'The Sessions' tells tale of the virgin's diary ★★★ 1/2
In 1990 the writer Mark O'Brien contributed an article for the literary magazine The Sun called "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate." A survivor of childhood polio, the substantially disabled O'Brien spent much of his sleeping and waking hours confined to an...
Tags: William H. Macy, Foursquare, Movies, Spencer Tracy, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Five for your planner: Sunday, Sept. 23
1. Wheels and more Thunder in the Square will be from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in Public Square, downtown Hagerstown. Hosted by the Alsatia Club. Cars, trucks, motorcycles and tractors will be on display. There will also be a special Wind Down...
Tags: Fine Artists, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Wynonna Judd, Arts, Movies
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence tie for No. 1 on soft weekend
Despite the arrival of four new films in theaters this weekend, moviegoers weren't interested in heading to the box office. For the fourth consecutive weekend, ticket sales were down compared with the same period in 2011, as none of the fresh arrivals at...
Tags: Dredd 3D (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Lawless (movie), The Raven (movie), Los Angeles Police Department
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Justin McLeod's Blog
August 15
Goodbye
They say all good things must come to an end. With that, I'm leaving WDBJ and the news business. I've accepted a position as the community relations coordinator for Roanoke City Schools. There are several reasons why I'm switching...Tags: Jeff Bridges, Social Movements, Jurassic Park (movie), Interior Policy, Email
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Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline can't save messy 'Darling Companion' ✭ 1/2
Tribune Newspapers criticLike Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way. Even the marquee ensemble anchored by Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Kevin Kline and Richard Jenkins is not enough to rescue this motley mutt of...Tags: Diane Keaton, Mark Duplass, Movies, Elisabeth Moss, Lawrence Kasdan
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'The Hunger Games' review: Hype, consider yourself mostly justified
I read Suzanne Collins' addictive, massively popular novel "The Hunger Games" so compulsively that the pages feared my fingers. Any filmmaker would be challenged to similarly create scene after scene that sparks craving for the next.
In other words,...Tags: Taylor Swift, Television Industry, Liam Hemsworth, Movies, Jennifer Lawrence
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March 21: The Cult of Katniss
Jennifer Lawrence is relishing her last few weeks of anonymity. The 21-year-old actress understands that her starring turn in"The Hunger Games" is about to change her life. Opening Friday, the highly anticipated film, faithfully adapted from Suzanne...Tags: X-Men: First Class (movie), TBS (tv network), Science, Movies, Concerts
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Film review: Reality TV plot of 'Hunger Games' is far from new
Every dollar Disney won't get at the box office for the $250-million “John Carter” will probably end up in the pockets of Lionsgate and the other entities behind “The Hunger Games” (which allegedly cost less than half as much). The...
Tags: Toby Jones, Wes Bentley, Stephenie Meyer, Movies, Rome (Italy)
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'Hunger Games' Posts 3rd Best Opening Weekend with $155M
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Katniss Everdeen may be engaged in a savage battle in "The Hunger Games," but there's little doubt about the victor in a different arena: the box office. The film raked in $155 million in North American ticket sales in its opening...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (movie), Movies, Arts and Culture, Tim Burton
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Reel Critics: 'Hunger Games' satisfies
OK, I didn't read the books, but let me just say, as pure movie entertainment,"The Hunger Games"is a "wow." This dystopian drama portrays a society where 24 children between the ages of 12-18 are randomly selected for an annual survivor/gladiator-style...
Tags: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea (movie), Lifestyle and Leisure, Game Playing, Chess Playing
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