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The week's best bets for kids
"Mickey Mouse Clubhouse": Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto and Minnie return for another season with the new episode "Fancy Dancin' Goofy." There's a dance coming up and Goofy really wants to attend with Clarabelle, but as everyone knows, he's not all that...Tags: Television, Film Festivals, Laura Dern, Kim Hunter, Movies
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Mary Stuart Masterson, Joaquin Phoenix, Agnieszka Holland, William H Macy, Elijah Wood
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Burton and Depp's 'Sweeney' Set For 2007
Zap2It.comWhat has been rumored since January finally became official on Wednesday (Aug. 16) when DreamWorks and Warner Bros. announced plans to co-produce a big screen adaptation of the classic musical "Sweeney Todd" to be directed by Tim Burton and star Johnny...Tags: Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Paramount
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'The Proposition'
Zap2It.comIf Peter Weir, Sam Peckinpah and Jim Jarmusch could somehow collaborate on a film written by Joseph Conrad, it would probably look something like "The Proposition," a new Australian Western from director John Hillcoat and writer Nick Cave. A minimalist...Tags: Joseph Conrad, Sam Peckinpah, Emily Watson, Movies, Caves and Caverns
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Burton Rests 'Ripley,' Tries 'Todd'
Zap2It.comWith Paramount temporarily shelving his "Ripley's Believe It or Not' feature, Tim Burton could be ready to fast-track the musical "Sweeney Todd" for the studio. According to the industry trade papers, Burton had been hoping to do "Ripley's" as his next...Tags: Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Music, Tim Burton
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Up, up ... and away
Times Staff WriterTo tell the tale of the greatest American superhero, the producers of "Superman Returns" brought six tons of lumber to a rural parcel on the Breeza Plains of Australia and built a Kansas farmhouse, windmill and an ox-blood red barn. They planted five...Tags: Movies, Jane Campion, Kansas, Bryan Singer, Robin Williams
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'Reel Paradise'
Times Staff WriterThere's a scene in Steve James' entertaining documentary "Reel Paradise" in which John Pierson, a pioneering independent film producer's rep, aptly compares himself to Allie Fox, Harrison Ford's bespectacled, slightly mad visionary in the Paul Schrader-...Tags: Kevin Smith, Television, Christianity, Movies, Paul Schrader
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THE 76TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Tribune movie criticWho will win? Who should win? Compare Sunday night's winners with Michael Wilmington's Oscar predictions and personal picks Key: *=Who will win **= Who should win BEST PICTURE * ** "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" "Lost in Translation"...Tags: Danny Elfman, Sean Penn, Academy Awards, Movies, Elvis Costello
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'Ned Kelly'
Times Staff WriterNed Kelly is Australia's most famous outlaw, a 19th century Irish immigrants' son who resisted British colonial oppression and became a folk hero celebrated in books, plays, operas, paintings, reenactments, even the 2000 Sydney Olympics and films, with...Tags: Film Festivals, Prosecution, Butch Cassidy, Gang Activity, Movies
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Critics society names `Splendor' best film
Chicago Tribune movie critic"American Splendor," an offbeat, independent American movie based on the scruffy life and hard times of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, was selected as the best film of 2003 on Jan. 3 by the National Society of Film Critics. Barely nudging out...Tags: Patrick O'Brian, Film Festivals, Reviews, Sean Penn, Hope Davis
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Crowe in command on British warship
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Film Writer"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" is extremely long, meticulous and quite possibly great. Director Peter Weir's epic throws you smack on the deck of a British warship in the middle of the ocean in 1805, capturing with ecstatic detail...Tags: Patrick O'Brian, Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Movies, Paul Bettany
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'Master and Commander': Immersion in a bygone time
Newsday Staff WriterExcuse us for asking, but just what is the opposite of "chick flick"? The obvious answers may be a bit too bawdy (to borrow a word the late Patrick O'Brian might have used) to print here. But we wonder. Because while movies like "In the Cut," "The Human...Tags: Patrick O'Brian, Movies, Mental Illness, Illnesses, Paul Bettany
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