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Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:40:40 GMT |
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DreamWorks' "Dragon" has no fire
(Reuters)
- Reuters - "How to Train Your Dragon" pits dragons against Vikings with one small child standing between them crying, "Why can't we all just get along?"
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Deeply moving "Next Fall" deserves Broadway shot
(Reuters)
- Reuters - In these recessionary times, it might take more than the imprimatur of celebrity presenters Elton John and David Furnish to make "Next Fall" viable for a Broadway run.
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Review: Question of faith explored in 'Next Fall'
(AP)
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AP - To believe or not to believe.
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Author writes about loss, family in India and US
(AP)
- AP - "Secret Daughter" (William Morrow, 352 pages, $23.99), by Shilpi Somaya Gowda: Sometimes the image in our minds of what we have lost is far greater than the loss itself, and so it is for Asha, who was given up for adoption by her birth parents in India.
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Author reveals the unwritten rules of baseball
(AP)
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AP - "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and bunts to force plays and foul tips.
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Capsule reviews: `Green Zone' and others
(AP)
- AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Review: 'Out of League' takes title too literally
(AP)
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AP - Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"?
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Father, daughter make baseball a year-round quest
(AP)
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AP - "The Baseball Fan's Bucket List: 162 Things You Must See, Do, Get, and Experience Before You Die" (Running Press, 288 pages, $15.95), by Robert Santelli and Jenna Santelli: Baseball is played by the boys of spring, whose sport also runs through summer and spills into the first several weeks of fall.
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Life's too short for "Minute to Win It"
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Without football or Olympics, NBC has a Sunday slot to be filled. At the same time, it has a game show, "Minute to Win It," which is capable of filling an hour. At NBC these days, that qualifies as a programing match made in heaven.
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"Sons of Tucson" mixes warmth with sly wit
(Reuters)
- Reuters - One might call Fox's "Sons of Tucson" a blended-family comedy.
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Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original"
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera."
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Thai thriller straddles homophobia, homoerotica
(Reuters)
- Reuters - In the slasher-thriller "Slice," a cop-turned-convict tracks down a serial killer by delving into his own troubled childhood memories.
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'The Scottsboro Boys' examines racial injustice
(AP)
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AP - Let's get right to the point. "The Scottsboro Boys" is a staggeringly inventive piece of musical theater.
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"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" a cold-case chiller
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.
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Review: Pattinson still brooding in `Remember Me'
(AP)
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AP - In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause."
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"Who Is Clark Rockefeller?" a rip-off
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Con men. Those charming devils who smile as they plunge the knife in your back, then make you want to thank them for the privilege. Hollywood, and let's face it, audiences, love 'em.
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Review: `Final Fantasy XIII' falls flat
(AP)
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AP - During the 1990s, the Square brand was synonymous with the role-playing video game. A generation of gamers got hooked on the challenging quests, quirky characters and sweeping story lines of Square RPGs like "Chrono Trigger," "The Secret of Mana" and, of course, the "Final Fantasy" series.
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CW's reality shows an affront to female viewers
(Reuters)
- Reuters - The CW is taking its largely female audience into two women-centric worlds with the reality shows "Fly Girls" and "High Society."
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Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence
(AP)
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AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.
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"Remember" this: "Twilight" star shines in romance
(Reuters)
- Reuters - "Remember Me" is a smart, engaging drama about young love flourishing amid sadness and loss. The story ends on September 11, 2001, in New York, which, depending on your point of view, further underscores the sense of loss implicit in the movie's title or is an unnecessary dramatic ploy to end the film with a devastating twist of fate.
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