Archive for February, 2008
Reuters - In a rare movie, Britain’s censor has banned the DVD release of “Murder-Set-Pieces,” a low-budget American horror film in which a serial killer rapes and tortures his victims, including young children.
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AP - “City of Men” begins atop the metaphorically named Dead End Hill in Rio de Janeiro, where a gun-toting gang is lazily contemplating a swim.
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AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he asked an Ohio museum to return his Austrian army tank because he was concerned about the upkeep and wants to offer rides to schoolchildren.
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AP - Here’s how devoted Will Ferrell is to his craft: That ‘fro he rocks in “Semi-Pro”? It’s his real hair, the product of six months of work — or neglect, depending on your perspective.
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AP - Selected home-video releases:
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Reuters - Now that the Oscars are history, virtually all of the films that were nominated or won major awards have been slotted for DVD release.
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Reuters - Twentieth Century Fox is bringing Jeff Kinney’s bestselling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book series to the big screen as a live-action family film.
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Reuters - “American Gangster”outgunned best picture Oscar nominee “Michael Clayton” to top the latest DVD sales and rental charts, according to data issued Wednesday.
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AP - The clever casting alone had promise: the role reversal of the va-va-voomy Scarlett Johansson playing sweet country girl Mary Boleyn and the pixieish Natalie Portman playing her scheming vixen of an older sister, Anne.
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