Anne Hathaway gets smart about career decisions
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6/22/2008, by Rick Bentley
SAN FRANCISCO - It was only eight years ago that Anne Hathaway made her professional acting debut in the short-lived Fox series "Get Real." Take a few moments and try to remember the show. Today, Hathaway is so well-known in the feature film world that she landed the coveted role of Agent 99 in the ...
Child actress Abigail Breslin thankfully projects more child than actress
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6/22/2008, by Tom Maurstad - The Dallas Morning News
Interviewing Abigail Breslin is a good-news, bad-news experience. The good news is that for all of her success in Hollywood, and all the trappings that go along with it, Abigail still comes across as what she is: a 12-year-old girl. She's not preternaturally poised. There's no artificial air of a ...
This week's DVD releases
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6/19/2008, by Bruce Dancis
_"Be Kind Rewind"
New Line Home Entertainment, $27.95, rated PG-13
From the clever mind of writer-director Michel Gondry comes this comedy, starring Mos Def as a video store employee whose friend (Jack Black) gets hit by an electromagnetic field and somehow erases all the videos in the store. ...
Steve Carell is as surprised as anyone by his success
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6/19/2008, by Chris Vognar
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Steve Carell pops out of his hotel suite to greet a reporter. Wearing well-tread sneakers, jeans and a modest sports coat, he could be anyone: your accountant, your neighbor, your college roommate. What he doesn't look like, or act like, is a top-line comedy star. The head ...
‘Get Smart'
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6/19/2008, by Robert W. Butler
Apparently there are two actors named Steve Carell.
One appears in sharp-witted, humanistic "small" movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Dan in Real Life" and the occasional smart comedy blockbuster like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" _ not to mention starring in "The Office," one of TV's edgiest ...
‘Mongol'
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6/19/2008, by Cary Darling - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The very words "Genghis Khan" bring to mind a bloody and brutal domination so ruthless that the only release was death. Certainly, much of 13th-century Europe and Asia felt that way as they fell under the sway of the mighty warrior on horseback. While "Mongol" _ the Russian-Kazakh-Mongolian movie ...
Director of ‘The Promotion' deftly balances humor with pathos
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6/19/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
Foreclosure, divorce, the economy and the workplace may not sound like the building blocks of a riotous comedy. But as filmmaker Steven Conrad points out, just because you're trying to make people laugh doesn't mean you can't sneak in a little drama too. In "The Promotion," the directorial debut of ...
‘The Love Guru'
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6/19/2008, by Robert W. Butler
"The Love Guru" is less a movie than a collection of related gags heaved at the screen. It's a mess, but an affable one, thanks to the comic sensibilities of Mike Myers, who aside from doing voice work for the "Shrek" franchise has been AWOL at the multiplex for nearly five years.
Even at his ...
Capsule reviews of feature films
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6/19/2008, by Carrie Rickey and Steven Rea
ALEXANDRA 3 stars. Russian director Alexander Sokurov uses the incongruous image of a dignified old woman waddling around a shabby army base on a desolate patch of land to get at the futility and ugliness of war. A slow-moving and fastidiously staged affair with opera great Galina Vishnevskaya in ...
The box office report
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6/19/2008, by Stephen Becker
Is The Incredible Hulk a hit? It's tough to say after one weekend. On the plus side, it finished first with $55 million. But it should be pointed out that 2003's "The Hulk" opened at $62.1 million and quickly fell off from there. It's looking like it will take a few more weeks to know for sure ...
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