In the first major box office shocker of 2010, tearjerker "Dear John" displaced "Avatar" from the top of the chart.
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Box office: 'Dear John' steals first place from 'Avatar'
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 2:46pm EST
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In the first major box office shocker of 2010, tearjerker "Dear John" displaced "Avatar" from the top of the chart.
In the first major box office shocker of 2010, tearjerker "Dear John" displaced "Avatar" from the top of the chart. -
Scorsese, DiCaprio and Lehane navigate 'Shutter Island's' rocky shoals
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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The director was challenged by the plot-driven story. The actor was emotionally drained. And the writer, well, he just feels lucky.
To many -- movie fans, film theorists and the dozens of young directors who've sought to emulate his two-fisted early style -- Martin Scorsese is the consummate American auteur. He's a filmmaker, that is, with a profound and distinctive personal vision and the clout and courage to put it on screen.
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New on DVD: The Coen brothers' 'A Serious Man'
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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Also: 'Couples Retreat,' 'Serious Moonlight,' 'The Stepfather' remake, 'The Time Traveler's Wife.'
Also: "Couples Retreat," "Serious Moonlight," "The Stepfather" remake and "The Time Traveler's Wife."
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Danish 'Terribly Happy' full of odd happenings
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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Henrik Ruben Genz's tale of a big-city cop sent to a rural town is one of many strange movies from the country.
What is it with Danish filmmakers?
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Autistic boy saddles up 'Dear John'
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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The movie's livestock coordinator Dan Hydrick's challenge was teaching the child to ride.
Based on the novel by Nicolas Sparks, director Lasse Hallström's romantic drama "Dear John" follows the relationship between Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) and soldier John Tyree (Channing Tatum) as they communicate through love letters during seven years of military deployments. For John's scenes in the Middle East and Africa, livestock coordinator Dan Hydrick provided exotic background animals to give a sense of place.
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'Bad Girls of Film Noir'
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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The two-volume, eight-disc collection brings some overlooked femmes fatales out of the shadows.
When girls are good they are very good, but when they are bad they are even better. And during the height of the film noir genre in the 1940s and '50s, some of the juiciest roles for women were as femmes fatales in snappy B-movies. Sony's terrific two-volume "Bad Girls of Film Noir" DVD collections, due out Tuesday, offer eight scrappy samples featuring several female icons of the genre.
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Opening day: 'Dear John' headed toward surprise win over 'Avatar'
Posted: February 6th, 2010, 2:15pm EST
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The reign of "Avatar" at the box office is ending a week earlier than expected.
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'Daredevil' headed for a big screen reboot
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 6:23pm EST
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Exploring Iran via its cinema
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive's 20th annual celebration of the country's art-house offerings affords what is for many a rare glimpse inside the country's psyche as well as its borders.
For the past two decades, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has been presenting the preeminent in Iranian art-house cinema -- highly personal, moving, contentious and even controversial films dealing with day-to-day life, social mores, religion and war.
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Review: 'Dear John'
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 3:00am EST
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This adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance isn't always true to the letter of life.
Dear Reader, I'm so sorry, gulp, but "Dear John" is like a very bad relationship with a very beautiful someone: You want it to work, you truly do, but the pain, the guilt, the boredom, the CW soundtrack . . . .