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Movies Opening Here

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The new batch of films opening this week include Green Zone, Remember Me, She's Out of My League and a lot of Charleston Film Festival movies

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'Brooklyn's Finest'

It goes on and on and on and ...

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

A crowded cast of some of the finest actors in cinema act the heck out of a gimmicky, episodic, hit-or-miss script in 'Brooklyn's Finest,' Antoine Fuqua's latest attempt to relive the glories of 'Training Day.'

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Tim Burton's 'Alice' is through a drearier looking glass

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice has grown -- not by "drink me" potion or "eat me" cake -- into a 19-year-old girl.

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Well-cast film plays out nicely

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Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010

History, expectation, age and idealism collide to good effect in "The Last Station," which follows the final months of Leo Tolstoy.

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Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010


'Valentine's Day'

Romantic comedy overstuffed with stars

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

'Valentine's Day" might boast the most shirtless dudes we've seen in a movie since "300." Ironically, the often bare-chested "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner isn't one of them.

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'Shutter Island

Scorsese does his best Hitchcock interpretation with ‘50s period piece

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

Dennis Lehane's character-packed but gimmicky novel, 'Shutter Island,' earns a slightly less gimmicky film from Martin Scorsese, who makes this '50s period piece his tribute to the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock.

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'Messenger': Military film is privileged glimpse into people's private pain

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Two soldiers show up at a suburban home, the door opens and they deliver the awful news: "The secretary of the Army regrets to inform ..."

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Beaufort International Film Festival begins its fourth year

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Roll 'em. A feast of festivals will be spread on the Lowcountry's cinematic table beginning Thursday when the fourth annual Beaufort International Film Festival opens its four-day run.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010


'Wolfman' has enough bite to be entertaining

Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Benicio and Joe put the "Goth" back in Gothic with their old school meets the new ultra-violence remake of the horror classic, "The Wolfman."

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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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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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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010


 
 
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