March 19, 2013
6:25 p.m.
Though she’s starred in a couple of feature films (“Baby Mama,” Date Night”), and had a prominent role in, as well as wrote, “Mean Girls,” Tina Fey is still best known for her TV work: head writer and&nb...
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March 19, 2013
6:25 p.m.
Over the past decade and a half, director Paul Weitz (who has also written some of his films) has been exploring adult-child – sometimes parent-child – relationships. They were there, in the background, in “American ...
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March 15, 2013
12:25 p.m.
There haven’t been many movies about magic and magicians made over the years, although the idea of seeing spectacular illusions on a big screen sounds like a pretty good one. We’ve had an inaccurate biopic on Houdini in the ’50...
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March 15, 2013
6:25 a.m.
Some things go very wrong in this film. For one of the characters, it happens right at the beginning, just after she makes a call to 911 in Los Angeles. Young blond-haired Leah (Evie Thompson) gets through to veteran 911 operator Jord...
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March 11, 2013
6:05 p.m.
It’s pronounced boo-semi, not boo-shemi. OK, got that out of the way as the first order of business when sitting down last week with Steve Buscemi, one of the busiest character actors of the past two decades. He was the short-te...
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March 8, 2013
4:20 p.m.
Jim Carrey can play it all: dark and light, down-to-earth and outrageous. He can jump from “The Cable Guy” to “I Love You Phillip Morris,” from “The Truman Show” to “Dumb & Dumber” without miss...
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March 8, 2013
4:20 p.m.
A great idea, pulled off to just short of perfection. It’s a prequel, of sorts, to “The Wizard of Oz,” in which we’re introduced to the young Kansas sideshow huckster who ends up in the magic land of Oz, and will someday ...
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March 8, 2013
4:20 p.m.
The Hollywood-versus-history game gets another go-around in this newest offering that sticklers will no doubt find inauthentic. But “Emperor” is no “Zero Dark Thirty” (Americans portrayed as torturing terror suspects) or ...
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