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'Precious' is great American cinema
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, w...
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'Fourth Kind' is a fibbing flop
“I am actress Milla Jovovich,” the star says, directly to the audience as she introduces her new movie, The Fourth Kind. And those are pretty much the last true words out of her mouth ...
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'Red Dawn' gets a makeover
DETROIT — It’s a quiet afternoon in downtown Detroit as an invasion is in progress. Soldiers and shabbily-dressed civilians are standing at a cordoned-off area around Griswold and Mi...
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Disney's 'Christmas Carol' slightly dark
The new Disney A Christmas Carol is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than The Polar Express or Beowulf. Dazzling, ornate visuals...
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'Goats' wacky, yet realistic
by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel
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"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 his freak flag fly.
Oh, bite me! From Vlad the Impaler to 'Twilight,' why vampires still suck ... pop-culturally speaking
by Brett Buckner
Special to The Star
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Vampires have always walked among us. Through each generation these blood-thirsty fiends have skulked, feasting upon our fears, lurking in the shadows and haunting the darkest corners of our imagin...
Self-life of the undead: A brief history of 'real' vampires
by Brett Buckner
Special to The Star
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Though they mostly haunt the box office and bookstores today, vampires have long struck terror in the hearts of mortals.
Hollywood visits Heflin
by Deirdre Long
Entertainment Editor
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NEAR HOLLIS CROSSROADS — Things were pretty normal Thursday afternoon at Emrick-Nolen Feed & Seed, a few miles south of Heflin on Alabama 9. Trucks pulled in to the parking lot and were loade...
AmStar begins discount movie program
by Deirdre Long
Entertainment Editor
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AmStar Cinemas in Oxford has started a program to show family-friendly movies at a discounted price. With the Saturday Morning Movies special, tickets can be purchased on the morning of the film fo...
Filmmaker Keener happy where he is
by Ben Flanagan
Special to the Star
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Anniston filmmaker Jason LaRay Keener doesn't want to tell the same stories over and over. He wants to follow his dreams, quite literally, and try to record what he can faintly remember from his sl...
3-D is back, but will it last?
by Ben Flanagan
Staff Writer
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Hollywood's done it again! The third dimension. A brand new, whiz-bang innovation that'll have you spinning in your seats. Monsters, airplanes, balloons and spaceships flying out of the screen towa...
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