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A United Kingdom movie review: a love that changed the world

Fri, Nov 25, 2016
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Insistent chemistry between David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike fuels a true story of passionate romance with an urgent message about love as radical and political.

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Risen movie review: when habeas corpus gets weird

Fri, Mar 18, 2016
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Initially intriguing detective tale of ancient Rome hops genres into fantasy, with a strange manic-preacher-dream-boy seduction of its pragmatic protagonist.

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Belle movie review: untold stories

Fri, Jun 13, 2014
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Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.

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In Secret movie review: do you promise not to tell?

Thu, May 15, 2014
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If O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe collaborated on a love story, it might look something like this juicy bit of ironic gothic romance.

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In Secret trailer: sex, corsets, and murder

Fri, Feb 21, 2014
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Ooo, juicy! And with Oscar Isaac! Yum.

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headlines that hurt my eyeballs

Tue, Jul 12, 2011
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All at Google News right now…

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question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?

Mon, Jun 06, 2011
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Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…

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trailer break: ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’

Thu, Apr 14, 2011
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He did it! James Franco finally did it! Damn him all to hell!

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“That Bitch J.K. Rowling Hates That Jerk Daniel Radcliffe”

Fri, Nov 19, 2010
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How else are we supposed to interpret “J.K. Rowling Won’t Write More Harry Potter Books to ‘Reward’ Daniel Radcliffe”? Oh, wait…

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question of the day: Where is the idea that the ‘Harry Potter’ kids are too old coming from?

Tue, Jul 21, 2009
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Maybe it only seems like the haters are more vocal when a movie is really really popular, but there’s a weird strand of Harry Potter hating going around that I simply don’t understand because it quite factually makes no sense at all, and yet this doesn’t stop anyone from spouting it. It’s perfectly expressed by … more…

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