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'The Water Horse' star Alex Etel plays innocent a little longer
Sentinel Movie CriticAlex Etel was the precious star of Danny Boyle's adorable children-find-money fantasy Millions. In the three years since that came out, he has heard that word "precocious" a lot. Along with mentions of his adorable freckles. Both turn up often in reviews...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Movies, The Hollywood Reporter, Roger Moore, Roddy McDowall
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'Cloverfield's' Monster Concept
![When the unusual teaser trailer for <a href="http://movies.zap2it.com/movies/movies/detail/1,1295,62487,00.html">"Cloverfield"</a> first appeared unexpectedly before last summer's blockbuster <a href="http://movies.zap2it.com/movies/movies/detail/1,1295,46946,00.html">"Transformers,"</a> it set off a wave of interest verging on hysteria. The clip featured what looked like home-video footage of a New York City house party suddenly erupting into total chaos -- earth-shaking explosions followed by the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty crashing down the street as stunned onlookers whipped out their camera-phones.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-01/34772008-16112915.jpg "When the unusual teaser trailer for <a href="http://movies.zap2it.com/movies/movies/detail/1,1295,62487,00.html\">\"Cloverfield\"</a> first appeared unexpectedly before last summer's blockbuster <a href=\"http://movies.zap2it.com/movies/movies/detail/1,1295,46946,00.html\">\"Transformers,\"</a> it set off a wave of interest verging on hysteria. The clip featured what looked like home-video footage of a New York City house party suddenly erupting into total chaos -- earth-shaking explosions followed by the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty crashing down the street as stunned onlookers whipped out their camera-phones.")
When the unusual teaser trailer for "Cloverfield" first appeared unexpectedly before last summer's blockbuster "Transformers," it set off a wave of interest verging on hysteria. The clip featured what looked like home-video footage of a New York City...Tags: Cloverfield (movie), Movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Schwimmer, J.J. Abrams
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Movie Review: 'Cloverfield'
"Godzilla" meets YouTube in "Cloverfield," a cheesy idea that gets a huge boost from the immediacy of its style. In this brainchild of producer J.J.Abrams (TV's "Alias" and "Felicity," the last "Mission: Impossible" movie), a giant monster terrorizes a...Tags: Cloverfield (movie), Movies, Manhattan (New York City), Central Park, Gaming
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Mike Elizalde is a 'Hellboy' with makeup effects
![MAKEUP effects pro Mike Elizalde admits he had never heard of "Hellboy" when director <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-hellboy4-2008may04%2C0%2C2024923.story">Guillermo del Toro</a> originally approached him about working on his 2004 movie based on the character. "I was not a comic book fan. I never have been," he says.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/40842214-12145049.jpg "MAKEUP effects pro Mike Elizalde admits he had never heard of "Hellboy\" when director <a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-hellboy4-2008may04%2C0%2C2024923.story\">Guillermo del Toro</a> originally approached him about working on his 2004 movie based on the character. \"I was not a comic book fan. I never have been,\" he says.")
Special to The TimesMAKEUP effects pro Mike Elizalde admits he had never heard of "Hellboy" when director Guillermo del Toro originally approached him about working on his 2004 movie based on the character. "I was not a comic book fan. I never have been," he says. But the...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Surgery, Entertainment, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (movie), Movies
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A familiar story in a new universe
REWRITING a famous story from a different character's point of view has become common enough that the results constitute a genre of their own. John Gardner saw "Beowulf" through the monster's eyes in "Grendel"; Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea" excavated the...Tags: Juno (movie), Teen-agers, Harry Potter (fictional character), Tom Stoppard, Death
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Book of beasts
By Nick Owchar
Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....Tags: Italo Calvino, Stephen King, Mystery (genre), James Fenimore Cooper, Science and Technology
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'Cloverfield'
Zap2It.com"Cloverfield" tried to be many things: an American iconic monster; an examination of our increasingly video-oriented culture; an allegory for the 9/11 attacks. To its credit, the movie succeeded at being an above-average monster flick that truly does...Tags: Cloverfield (movie), DVDs, Documentary (genre), DVDs and Movies, Entertainment
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Man of mud
By Nick Owchar
Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...Tags: Reviews, Adolf Hitler, Heroism, Social Issues, Prague (Czech Republic)
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'Night Stalker' Rises Again
Zap2It.comIn the olden days of television, when a show was canceled after only a few episodes, it was tossed in the dustbin of history, never to see the light of a TV screen again. Now in the age of cable channels and DVD box sets, even a premature death is no...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Walt Disney, CSI (tv program), Alias (tv program), Death
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Anatomy of the film animatrons
![Back in 1993, creature creator and special effects makeup artist Howard Berger's heart sank when he saw the digital dinosaurs inhabiting "Jurassic Park."](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-06/24044877.jpg "Back in 1993, creature creator and special effects makeup artist Howard Berger's heart sank when he saw the digital dinosaurs inhabiting "Jurassic Park.\"")
Times Staff WriterBack in 1993, creature creator and special effects makeup artist Howard Berger's heart sank when he saw the digital dinosaurs inhabiting "Jurassic Park." "All of the creature guys saw it and said, 'Oh, my God, we might be extinct,' " Berger recalls....Tags: Entertainment, Animation (genre), Spider-Man (fictional character), Movies, Academy Awards
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The Siren's Call: New narratives, old myths
![Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43748374-05164152.gif "Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher\" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).")
Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by Kate Summerscale's splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" (Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).
In 1860, the...Tags: Wilkie Collins, Los Angeles, New York, Dan Brown , Death
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'Avenue Q' can really grow on you
![SAN DIEGO — If the words "Children's Television Workshop" light up old neural centers in your brain, consider yourself in the right demographic for "Avenue Q," the diverting Tony-winning musical that lends a new twist to the familiar "Sesame Street" formula.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-07/31300339.jpg "SAN DIEGO — If the words "Children's Television Workshop\" light up old neural centers in your brain, consider yourself in the right demographic for \"Avenue Q,\" the diverting Tony-winning musical that lends a new twist to the familiar \"Sesame Street\" formula.")
Times Staff WriterSAN DIEGO — If the words "Children's Television Workshop" light up old neural centers in your brain, consider yourself in the right demographic for "Avenue Q," the diverting Tony-winning musical that lends a new twist to the familiar "Sesame Street"...Tags: Jim Henson, Sesame Street (tv program), Broadway Theater, Los Angeles, Education
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