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MoviesNovember 20, 2009 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK – "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has set a box-office record for midnight screenings. By DAVID GERMAIN
- THe Associated Press Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle? November 19, 2009 By GLENN WHIPP The Associated Press The redemption-minded sports flick “The Blind Side” serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist. By DAVID GERMAIN - The Associated Press As Hollywood closes specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who’s left to make great American movies? By Ed Symkus GateHouse News Service She's always been referred to as Sandra. So it’s a little disconcerting when she energetically introduces herself with, “Hi, I’m Sandy.” But energy was necessary for Sandra Bullock to portray Leigh Anne Tuohy in the new film “The Blind Side." By DAVID GERMAIN The Associated Press It’s been a big year for animation, with a great variety of styles represented by “Up,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and the upcoming “The Princess and the Frog.” By SANDY COHEN – The Associated Press The "Twilight" series may have changed the lives of fans worldwide, but perhaps no one has been more affected by its success than the three stars of the film: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. By Michael Sragow The Baltimore Sun Describing how her character brutalizes her daughter in “Precious” and at one point endangers the life of her infant granddaughter, Mo’Nique says, “That was rough for me. But the moment the director says, ‘Cut,’ you leave it right on the floor.” November 17, 2009 By MEGAN K. SCOTT The Associated Press Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney’s first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black. By The WASHINGTON POST Here’s what’s new on DVD today. November 12, 2009 By ANN HORNADAY – The Washington Post What do you want for Christmas? November 10, 2009 By DAVID GERMAIN The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens’ imagination. By The WASHINGTON POST The following are released on DVD today. November 6, 2009 By DAVID GERMAIN
- The Associated Press Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly’s “The Box”: Press a button on a mysterious container, they’ll get $1 million, and someone they don’t know will die. November 5, 2009 By JEFFREY WESTHOFF - sidetracks@nwherald.com Leaving aside for a few moments the technology behind Robert Zemeckis’ animated “A Christmas Carol,” this is the most satisfying version of Charles Dickens' oft-told tale in years. By By JEFFREY WESTHOFF - sidetracks@nwherald.com “The Men Who Stare at Goats” pokes fun at the U.S. military for trying to create a team of psychic warriors, but you at least have to give the military credit for keeping an open mind. November 4, 2009 By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) – Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Oscars. November 3, 2009 By The WASHINGTON POST Here’s what’s debuting on DVD today. October 29, 2009 By DAVID GERMAIN – The Associated Press “Gentlemen Broncos” is a comedy so weird, so off, so simply wrong that even freakish hero Napoleon Dynamite would have a hard time lending it his catch word, “Sweet.” By DAVID GERMAIN – The Associated Press Low-rental 1980s horror returns with filmmaker Ti West’s “The House of the Devil,” which scores points for restraint and attention to detail but defaults when the mortgage comes due with a bloody, pointless, uninspired climax. October 28, 2009 By AP Entertainment Writer SANDY COHEN (The Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer’s last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer. October 23, 2009 By DAVID GERMAIN
- The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Vampires have been an eternal force in Hollywood horror since silent-movie days, yet they have risen to new heights as the "Twilight" franchise, TV's "True Blood" and other incarnations put the bite on viewers. By The NORTHWEST HERALD Bela Lugosi is burned into most movie lovers’ brains as THE Dracula, but he’s hardly the only guy to portray the legendary bloodsucker. Christopher Lee played the Count seven times in the course of 15 years, Leslie Nielsen hammed it up in Mel Brooks’ vampire send-up, and John Carradine got to portray Dracula in a battle against, of all people, Billy the Kid. Ah, the ’60s ... October 22, 2009 By DAVID GERMAIN – The Associated Press Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don’t put much on the line in their film biography “Amelia.” By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com “Astro Boy” is one of those happy moviegoing surprises. By JAKE COYLE - The Associated Press It’s getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. October 20, 2009 New releases on DVD this week: October 16, 2009 By CHRISTY LEMIRE
- The Associated Press The real mystery of "Law Abiding Citizen" isn't how Gerard Butler's character manages to wreak explosive, bloody havoc on Philadelphia while confined behind the walls of his jail cell. October 15, 2009 By GLENN WHIPP The Associated Press The no-budget ghost story “Paranormal Activity” arrives 10 years after “The Blair Witch Project,” and the two horror movies share more than a clever construct and shaky, handheld camerawork. By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” is only 10 sentences long and takes less than five minutes to read, if you don’t linger over the pictures. |
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