• Documentary is an Ode to NYC Playground Basketball

    2013
    A new documentary, "Doin' it in the Park," is a loving ode to the blacktop world of New York City pickup basketball.
    Documentary is an Ode to NYC Playground Basketball
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  • New Film Highlights Vet's WWII Head Trauma

    2013
    In "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," Benicio del Toro plays a Blackfoot Indian who suffers head trauma while fighting in France.
    New Film Highlights Vet's WWII Head Trauma
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  • Coppola's 'Bling Ring' at Home at Decadent Cannes

    2013
    "The Bling Ring" is a deadpan drama about celebrity-obsessed teenagers in Los Angeles who break into the homes of Paris Hilton and other stars.
    Coppola's 'Bling Ring' at Home at Decadent Cannes
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  • Coens' Folk Revival 'Llewyn' Serenades Cannes

    2013
    "Inside Llewyn Davis" is the Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village and a melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician.
    Coens' Folk Revival 'Llewyn' Serenades Cannes
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  • Japan's 'Shield of Straw' an Action Pic in Cannes

    2013
    "Shield of Straw" is a robust thriller about a team of police tasked with escorting a child-killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head safely across the country.
    Japan's 'Shield of Straw' an Action Pic in Cannes
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News Archives for 2013

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Movie Review: The Host

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Associated Press | Mar 29, 2013

LOS ANGELES - There's something about novelist Stephenie Meyer that induces formerly interesting directors to suddenly make films that are slow, silly and soporific. It happened consistently on "The Twilight Saga," and it happens again on "The Host," once-provocative writer-director Andrew Niccol's adaptation of Meyer's 600-plus-page post-Twilight novel that spent 26 weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list beginning in 2008. Aimed squarely at the same tweens who contributed so generously to the bank accounts of everyone who became associated with Meyer's vampire franchise, this one swills in the same sort of thwarted Victori... more

Will Smith Says Django Wasn't Lead Role

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United Press International | Mar 27, 2013

U.S. actor Will Smith says he turned down the chance to play the title character in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" because the role wasn't the lead. The pre-American Civil War film was a Best Picture Oscar nominee, with Jamie Foxx playing the title character, a former slave on a journey to reunite with his wife. Writer-director Tarantino earned the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, while Foxx's co-star Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role of Django's gun-slinging partner. "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like: 'I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead,'" Smith told EW.com. "I was like,... more

Jolie Meets With Women, Girls in Eastern Congo

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Associated Press | Mar 27, 2013

GOMA, Congo - Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant. Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, traveled to the Nzulo camp near Goma on Monday along with British Foreign Secretary William Hague. The International Rescue Committee says it's provided care to more than 2,500 women and girls who have been raped or abused over the last year alone. The IRC is handing out kits with flashlights and whistles, as well as cleaning products so that women can avoid bathing at creeks where the risk of assault is higher. Sexual violence is frequently used as a weapon of war by rebel ... more

A Sci-Fi Love Triangle Plumbs Ideas of Self

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Philadelphia Inquirer | Mar 27, 2013

Max Irons and Jake Abel are chasing each other up and down a hallway at the Ritz-Carlton in Center City while Stephenie Meyer looks on with a maternal smile. They're blowing off steam after a solid block of media appearances to promote their new film, "The Host," an adaptation of Meyer's 2008 best-seller. The film, Meyer's follow-up to the blockbuster Twilight series, opens Friday. The actors -- either of whom could give Robert Pattinson a run for his money as a movie heartthrob -- form two sides of a very peculiar love triangle (or perhaps more accurately a love rectangle) at the heart of the film, a peculiar sci-fi adventure about an a... more

Bassett Drawn to "Olympus" Because of Director

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Associated Press | Mar 25, 2013

NEW YORK - The idea of working with director Antoine Fuqua was enough for Angela Bassett to appear in the action flick, "Olympus Has Fallen." But things got better for the Oscar-nominated actress when she found out she'd share most of her scenes with Morgan Freeman. "I was really happy to have that and I was intimidated before he even showed up," Bassett admits. That all changed once they started working together on a set outside Shreveport, La., where they recreated parts of Washington, D.C., including the White House. "He was nothing but professional and kind and warm and fun, and you know, a treat," Bassett recalled. The actress pla... more

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