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Dear John: Sparks should be happy with film adaptation shot in the Lowcountry

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Great close-ups are the essence of romantic melodrama. Nothing matters so much, save for chemistry (or lack of same) between the leading players.

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Jeff Bridges on the road to an Oscar as hard-living country singer

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

There's a powerful symmetry at work in "Crazy Heart" that's impossible to resist. It's a parallel between protagonist Bad Blake, a country singer whose entire life has led him to a nadir of disintegration, and star Jeff Bridges, whose exceptional film choices have put him at the height of his powers just in time to make Mr. Blake the capstone role of his career.

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'From Paris With Love' is lost in translation

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

John Travolta shaved his head, dyed his goatee and gave himself and his stunt double a real workout in "From Paris With Love," a gonzo spy shoot-em-up from the folks who gave us "Taken."

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Opening Here

Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

"Dear John": A soldier home on leave falls for a conservative college girl, but when he re-enlists, time and distance take a toll on the young lovers. Director Lasse Hallstrom. Starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona. Rated PG-13 for some sensuality a...

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010


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Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010


Cruz is ravishing, and narritive is dazzling in new film

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Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010

Pedro Almodóvar works through a motif over the course of multiple films, as if the ideas he likes best can't be contained by a single movie. These variations on a theme provide analytical grist for film scholars with an auteur bent. For more casual viewers the results are more like cinematic déjà vu. Haven't I seen something like this before?

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Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010

HHH 12 (of 5) Director: Tom Vaughan. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell. Rated: PG for thematic material, language and a mild suggestive moment. Run Time: 1 hr., 43 min. What did you think?: Find this review at www.postandcourier.comprev...

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Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010


'Extraordinary Measures' is actually just ordinary

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Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010

For its big screen debut, start-up studio CBS Films delivers what might, in an earlier age, have been a "disease of the week" TV movie. "Extraordinary Measures" is a sometimes moving, solid if unsurprising account of a father's tireless efforts to use his business acumen to develop a cure...

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'Dear John'

Actors hope film inspires audiences to 'find love or keep love'

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Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010

Not every love story needs to be a saga, like "Dr. Zhivago." Sometimes the simplest stories make the best movies, and Nicholas Sparks has made a mint feeding a public ravenous for romance.

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Young actor, 7, wins hearts

Local boy with autism shines in first movie role

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Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010

The appeal of 7-year-old Braeden Reed, a fledgling actor from Daniel Island, was not lost on the cast and crew of "Dear John," director Lasse Hallstrom's adaptation of the novel by Nicholas Sparks.

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‘The Book of Eli’

New Denzel flick uses a lot of bombs but isn’t explosive

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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010

He is a loner, trudging in battered shoes across a sun-blasted landscape. He has a worn-out coat, tattered backpack and sunglasses. He's needed them ever since that day, 30 years before, "when the bomb blew a hole in the sky."

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Firth triumphs in exploration of grief

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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010

Several diverse currents come together in "A Single Man" to form a good movie and a great opportunity for actor Colin Firth.

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Film preview: 'Iron Man,' 'Shrek,' 'Harry Potter' return

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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood may find it tough to match 2009's record box-office revenue. Yet studios have a cast of characters this year to make a run for their money.

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