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Mini-Movies May Boost IVF Success

May 17th, 2013 No comments

Mini-movies of growing embryos could help boost the success of in vitro fertilization, a new study found. But the number of women who could benefit from the time-lapse technology is unclear.        

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This Week’s Movies: May 17, 2013

May 16th, 2013 No comments

Watch This Week’s Movies: May 17, 2013 video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage.

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Study: Women in movies have less than a third of speaking roles

May 14th, 2013 No comments

KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Women in movies are still underrepresented and hyper-sexualized according to a new study of the year’s top 100 films.

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Study: Women in movies have less than a third of speaking roles

Netflix Made It Harder to Find Out Which Movies Will Vanish in 'Streamageddon'

May 14th, 2013 No comments

Netflix made some changes to its public API Monday night that make it harder to figure out which movies are going to be taken off the service. The company will no longer provide the expiration date of movies through its API, which will mean that third-party tools like Instantwatcher.com’s Expiring Soon on Instant list will stop working.

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Summer Movie Forecast: Biggest Box Office Season Yet For 3D Movies, According to International 3D

May 14th, 2013 No comments

This month is likely to go into the record books as the biggest May in history for 3D movie box office revenue, setting up Summer 2013 to be potentially the highest grossing box of

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'Playbook' tops DVD sales and rental charts

May 13th, 2013 No comments

LOS ANGELES, May 13 (UPI) — “Silver Linings Playbook,” the family dramedy for which actress Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar, is the top-selling DVD and No.

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Netflix adds Disney and Pixar movies to streaming catalogue in UK

May 13th, 2013 No comments

Classic Disney movies like Wall-E, Pirates of the Caribbean and Dumbo are now available to stream for Netflix customers in the UK and Ireland. The deal also sees The Chronicles of Narnia films, Ratatouille, Robin Hood, The Aristocats and The Sword in the Stone hit the service with plenty more to come in the coming months.

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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

May 12th, 2013 No comments

This is a big moment for the deaf, many of whom haven’t been to the movies in a long time. The new glasses display closed captions just for the wearer, and they’re headed for 6,000 theaters across the country.

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This Week’s Movies: May 8, 2013

May 9th, 2013 No comments

Watch This Week’s Movies: May 8, 2013 video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage

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At The Movies, A Swirl Of Style And Substance

May 9th, 2013 No comments

Special effects date back to the dawn of film, but with today’s tools moviemakers can put pretty much anything on-screen — which has NPR film critic Bob Mondello thinking about how movie style affects movie substance.

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