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Sony names Tom Rothman to head movie studio

March 9th, 2015 No comments

Sony Pictures Entertainment has brought on a veteran with a track record of successful big-budget movies to pump new life into Hollywood's fourth-ranked film studio and help distance it from a cyberattack that rattled the entertainment industry.

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Photos: Movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

February 10th, 2015 No comments

Why has “American Sniper” been such a big hit with moviegoers, especially considering that other movies about Iraq and Afghanistan haven't been all that popular?

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Photos: Movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Blu-ray Review: 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' with Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy

January 27th, 2015 No comments

How many different ways can you tell the same story? read more

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Blu-ray Review: 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' with Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy

Amazon to produce original movies

January 19th, 2015 No comments

Move over, Hollywood movie studios.

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Amazon to produce original movies

Dolly Parton signs deal to develop movies about her life for NBC

January 16th, 2015 No comments

Still saving up for that trip to Dollywood? Not to worry. NBC will soon be bringing Dolly Parton to living rooms across the country.

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Blu-ray discs can boost solar energy supply

November 26th, 2014 No comments

New York, Nov 26 (IANS) Regarded as one of the best ways to store high-definition movies and television shows because of their high-density data storage capacity, Blu-ray discs have also shown to improve the performance of solar cells, says a new research.

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Best picture Oscar contenders often break the genre film barrier

November 13th, 2014 No comments

There is a long-running misconception that members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences love only underdog biopics, literary adaptations and anything in which Meryl Streep speaks with an accent. But if you look at the list of the 500-plus movies that have received best picture…

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'Pee-Wee's Playhouse' comes to Blu-Ray; Paul Reubens speaks

October 21st, 2014 No comments

Today, Shout Factory releases the Blu-Ray set “Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series,” an astonishingly beautiful work of television art — I am not kidding — that has rebuilt the show, originally edited and assembled on videotape, from its original film elements. Available also in part…

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On Movies: Front-line performance

October 6th, 2014 No comments

The girlfriend, the wife, the lover. The kooky coworker

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On Movies: Front-line performance

ZADZOOKS: Star Trek: The Compendium review (Blu-ray)

September 6th, 2014 No comments

Director J.J. Abrams successfully revived Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi universe through a pair of blockbuster films. They arrive for the together in the Blu-ray set Star Trek: The Compendium (Paramount Home Entertainment, Rated: PG-13, $44.99)

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