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'Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype

One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness. As a genre, wedding films are typically about as cloying as two-hours worth of kitten videos on YouTube. Add in the equally checkered history of stridently ethnic movies, and you might want to start asking moviegoers to remove their belts before entering the theater. Read the review →

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• 'Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence

  

  All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.

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• Pattinson still brooding in 'Remember Me'

  

  In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause." When Pattinson's character — a wayward, rebellious 21-year-old named Tyler Hawkins — meets who will quickly…

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• 'Alice' departure from children’s classic

  

  Director Tim Burton unleashes his idiosyncratic vision upon Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, effectively rendering Lewis Carroll’s children’s classics into Tim Burton’s Alice’s Epic Adventures In Underland.

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• 'Alice' departure from children’s classic

  

  Director Tim Burton unleashes his idiosyncratic vision upon Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, effectively rendering Lewis Carroll’s children’s classics into Tim Burton’s Alice’s Epic Adventures In Underland.

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• 'Brooklyn's Finest' is not so fine

  

  Irony underlies the title of "Brooklyn's Finest," a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs. And director Antoine Fuqua pounds that irony home with a sledgehammer.Fuqua rounded up a fine cast — Richard Gere, Don Cheadle,…

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• 'Crazies' shows compelling struggle

  

  Bill stares at nothing. He doesn’t speak. He’s unresponsive and disconnected. Bill’s worried wife tells the town doctor, “He’s not right.” Ben isn’t right either. He sits alone and silent, as if in a trance. Well, Ben did witness a…

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• 'Cop Out' falls shy of its inspirations

  

  "Cop Out" is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis. They play our paired police — detectives Paul Hodges and Jimmy Monroe,…

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• De Niro set to play Lombardi in movie

  

  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie. ESPN announced Tuesday that the Academy Award-winning actor has agreed to play the Hall of Fame coach in the film it is developing…

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• Front-runners rule at predictable Oscars

  

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture. "

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• Mo'Nique, Waltz win supporting-acting Oscars

  

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Villainous roles snatched the supporting-acting prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards: "Precious" co-star Mo'Nique as a contemptible mother and "Inglourious Basterds" co-star Christoph Waltz as a sociable Nazi fiend. Both performers capped remarkable years.

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• Film productions in La. for March

  

  This information is from (225) 342-FILM, the official hotline of Louisiana Entertainment. Here’s what’s happening for the first week of March 2010.

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• Filmmakers predict 3-D dramas

  

  NEW YORK (AP) — Movies are evolving ever more into 3-D, a shake-up of the medium that has been compared to the advent of sound or color in motion pictures. But if digital 3-D is so revolutionary, it will need to…

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• 8 leading men join Oscar telecast

  

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eight leading men are joining the Oscar show lineup. Telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman say Bradley Cooper, Tom Ford, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine, Keanu Reeves, Sam Worthington, Ryan Reynolds and Gerard Butler will serve…

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• Pattinson fears life after 'Twilight'

  

  NEW YORK (AP) — With his tousled, seemingly unwashed locks, and rumpled, just-rolled-out-of-bed undershirt and jeans, Robert Pattinson seems laid-back and carefree. But the 23-year-old heartthrob, who attracts throngs of screaming fans wherever he goes, has a lot on his…

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