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Photo: Associated Press photo Fire-breathing fun: AmStar opens 'How to Train Your Dragon' with family fun and Habitat for Humanity
This weekend will be anything but tame as Quintard Mall’s AmStar Theatre will be full of dragons … or, at least on screen. The theater will be full of food, fun and festivities, all in conju...
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Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell battle to survive in a town overrun by a strange infection in The Crazies. Photo: Overture Films/Special to The Star ‘Crazies’ taps into our fear of infection
Breck Eisner’s insane-in-the-membrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie The Crazies opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card ...
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List of 82nd annual Academy Award nominations
Complete list of 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
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Prince Tray Haynes, 11, escorts Brooklynn Byers, left, and Bria  Byers to their seats at a Legacy Club tea party on Saturday. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star 'Princesses' celebrate Disney's new look
Glittering tiaras and pink princess sashes were in order Saturday at the Oxford Library as a group of more than 30 young girls were treated to a tea party and were then whisked away to see Disney&...
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Oxford's AmStar Theater promotes new film with charity drive
by Erica Long
Special to The Star
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It's time to break out the costumes again. Halloween is still just once a year, but area children have another chance to dress up, and this time for a more worthy cause. Quintard Mall's AmStar Thea...
Blind sided and pleased: True story of NFL lineman leaves your heart sacked
by Bran Strickland
Sports Editor
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On a football field, keeping your head on a swivel is key so as not to be surprised by a bone-crushing lick. Who knew one should employee that same tactic while watching a movie.
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...
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