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'Twilight' success has turned Robert Pattinson into a global star
Maybe it can be dismissed as simply his British background, but Robert Pattinson says he hasn't really been affected by the mountains of attention he's garnered since "Twilight."
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'Precious' a heartbreaking, emotional and exceptional adaptation of book
'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" follows a teenager named Claireece "Precious" Jones struggling with incest, illiteracy, physical abuse, poverty and obesity in 1980s Harlem.
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The Twilight Saga - New Moon: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner star in the next chapter of the popular supernatural romance saga. Rated PG-13 for some violence and action.
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Bullock commands screen in 'The Blind Side'
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that "The Proposal" gave her and that "All About Steve" threatened to kill with "The Blind Side," a surprisingly smart and moving drama about a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn't truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
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'Planet 51' Animated tale high on special effects, low on laughs
How might a kid, OK, a teenager, protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies (including "The Fourth Kind"), the anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off according to the sci-fi kids cartoon "Planet 51." A genial but ge...
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'An Education'
HHHH (of 5) Director: Lone Scherfig. Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina. Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking. Run Time: 1 hr. 40 min. What did you think?: Fin...
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Everybody could use 'An Education'
It's 1961 and London is just a few years from swinging. But that's too long to wait for Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a precocious Twickenham teen in a hurry to soak up life and start doing adult things, preferably in France.
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Hardy remarkable as real-life British prisoner in 'Bronson'
English actor Tom Hardy is rumored to be the new Mad Max in that franchise's reboot. If he does end up in Mel Gibson's boots, judging from Hardy's riveting work in the new film "Bronson," the "mad" part won't be an issue.
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'Pirate Radio' is only rock 'n' roll, but we like it
Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast members. He's a British Judd Apatow -- indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value. His latest, "Pirate Radio," is as jolly, jaunty and sappy as "Love Actually...
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All-star cast reacts to the end of the world as if their lives depended on it
Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck. With "2012," Roland "Day After Tomorrow" Emmerich serves up World's End 4.0, with cataclysmic effects showcasing what volcanoes, tidal waves and earthquakes will do once that fabled Mayan calendar runs out on 12-21-12.
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Concert shoots for stars
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, what is arguably the greatest science fiction story of all time took place. When George Lucas first dreamed up the concept for the story of "Star Wars," even he could not have predicted how popular and widespread his creation would become. Now, s...
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Coen Brothers give viewers a lot to chew on with 'A Serious Man'
It's not all "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men" box-office glory for the filmmaking Coen Brothers.
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'The Men Who Stare at Goats'
Cast lets their freak flags fly in new film
'Wacky" isn't George Clooney's strong suit as an actor. But it's always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man let loose.
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