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Sundance Video Blog And Reviews : Sleepwalk With Me And Smashed Cinema Blend Check out the video below, and read more detailed reviews of both movies discussed here below that. Stand-up comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia is fairly well known thanks to his appearances on the NPR show This American Life, which occasionally … and more » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Sundance Video Blog And Reviews: Sleepwalk With Me And Smashed – Cinema Blend

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Chicago Tribune An enthralling espionage movie that’s as quiet as a spy Chicago Tribune So now the Oscar nominations have been announced, and all the big Hollywood movies are getting that big Hollywood buzz. We’re in the carnival of excess praise, and there’s loud talk and more loud talk. And then there’s that quiet movie that I liked so … and more » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: An enthralling espionage movie that’s as quiet as a spy – Chicago Tribune

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AP – New York’s police commissioner apologized Wednesday for appearing in a documentary movie about terrorism that Muslim groups have criticized as inflammatory, and said his department acted wrongly when it later showed the film to counterterrorism trainees. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: NYC police chief apologizes for movie interview (AP)

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AP – Authorities say Hollywood actor Armie Hammer was arrested at a border patrol checkpoint in West Texas after a drug sniffing dog discovered marijuana in his car. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Actor Armie Hammer nabbed in Texas for marijuana (AP)

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AP – The final day of Paris’s spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars (AP)

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AP – A man who stole John Travolta’s vintage 1970 Mercedes-Benz convertible has been sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to pay the actor $50,000 in restitution, according to court records obtained Wednesday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Man convicted in Travolta car theft ordered to pay (AP)

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Reuters – Film star John Travolta’s vintage Mercedes-Benz, stolen from a Los Angeles suburb, has been recovered in pieces and two men have been arrested, police said on Wednesday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: John Travolta’s stolen vintage Mercedes recovered in pieces (Reuters)

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AP – Potential Oscar winners will now be a click away from winning a trophy. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Oscars voting to go electronic (AP)

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AP – Nine years later, Cillian Murphy is back at the Sundance Film Festival, where he got such great exposure that people finally learned to pronounce his name. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: ’28 Days Later’ star Murphy makes Sundance return (AP)

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AP – The Sundance Film Festival became the unlikely center of hip-hop’s latest feud when actor-turned-rapper Drake and rapper-turned-actor Common came to town. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Common explains feud with Drake (AP)

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Reuters – Stories of Americans learning the effects of greed and excess or struggling in a weak economy have tried to captivate audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival but without one standout, sweeping success. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Tales of greed, excess meet mild response at Sundance (Reuters)

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Reuters – A group of movies offering personal redemption and hope swept up Oscar nominations on Tuesday, led by Martin Scorsese’s colorful “Hugo” with 11 and silent-era romance “The Artist” with 10, including a best film nod for both. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Hollywood embraces hopeful tales with Oscar nominations (Reuters)

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Reuters – His suave Clark Gable looks have made him an international heartthrob, while his role as silent movie icon George Valentin in French film “The Artist” has earned him a best actor Oscar nomination. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: France’s Jean Dujardin plays down Hollywood success (Reuters)

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Reuters – Stephanie Allain, a producer and former president of Jim Henson Pictures, is the new director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, the festival said Wednesday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: New LA film festival director named (Reuters)

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Reuters – Sony Pictures received 21 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, making it the most-nominated studio for 2012′s Oscars, but the key winner may be Harvey Weinstein’s company as it rolls out new movies to capitalize on Academy Award media hype. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Sony, Paramount and Weinstein Co. get Oscar boost (Reuters)

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Reuters – Greek award-winning director Theo Angelopoulos died at the age of 77 in an Athens hospital on Tuesday, hours after a motorbike ran him over while he was filming a movie on the debt crisis rocking the country. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Greek director Angelopoulos dies after accident during shooting (Reuters)

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Greek director Angelopoulos dies after accident during shooting
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AP – Actor Jason Segel can add a Hasty Pudding pot award to his career highlights. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Segel is Harvard Hasty Pudding Man of the Year (AP)

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AP – The Department of Defense estimates that more than 19,000 military men and women were sexually assaulted by fellow troops in 2010 while serving in the United States armed forces. At least 20 percent of servicewomen and one percent of men — an estimated 500,000 troops — have experienced sexual trauma while serving. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Sundance documentary examines rape in US military (AP)

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AP – Actor James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a family spokesman. He was 73. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Actor James Farentino dies of heart failure at 73 (AP)

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Actor James Farentino dies of heart failure at 73
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Reuters – Each year documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival are among the best movies here, and in 2012 nonfiction works on subjects from the healthcare crisis to the war on drugs and rape in the military are wowing crowds and spurring calls to action. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Documentary makers spur calls to action at Sundance (Reuters)

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Reuters – A day after the Weinstein Co. and Relativity Media settled their lawsuit over the movie “The Crow,” Relativity on Tuesday said that it has attached a director and writer to the remake. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Director, Writer named for “The Crow” (Reuters)

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Director, Writer named for "The Crow"
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Reuters – “The Artist” continued its love affair with American cinema after winning best-produced film on Saturday at the Producers Guild Awards (PGA), boosting its chances for an Oscar nod ahead of the Academy Award nominations next week. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: “The Artist” wins over producers at Guild Awards (Reuters)

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"The Artist" wins over producers at Guild Awards
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Reuters – The Johnny Depp-voiced “Rango,” which scored an Oscar nomination for best animated feature film on Tuesday, will receive an extremely limited re-release later this month, according to Paramount. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: “Rango” gets brief re-release after Oscar nod (Reuters)

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Stuff.co.nz Film review : Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Stuff.co.nz The storyline of the movie is that Sean’s (Josh Hutcherson) grandfather (Micheal Caine) has found Mysterious Island by putting together bits of old stories. Sean and his stepdad Hank (Dwayne Johnson or “The Rock”) embark on a dangerous mission to find … and more » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Film review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – Stuff.co.nz

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USA TODAY (blog) AARP’s best movie for grownups? “The Descendants” Chicago Tribune LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Add another accolade to the pile already collected by “The Descendants” this awards season: the Alexander Payne/George Clooney collaboration has been named Best Movie by AARP: The Magazine’s 11th annual Movies for Grownups … Oh, grow up! ‘The Descendants,’ ‘The Artist’ among winners for AARP’s Movies … Entertainment Weekly (blog) Sycamore Entertainment Group Inc and AARP Honour Sharon Stone at the 2012 … MarketWatch (press release) AARP names ‘ Movies For Grownups’ award winners USA TODAY (blog) all 20 news articles » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: AARP’s best movie for grownups? “The Descendants” – Chicago Tribune

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Movie Man: In his younger days, ‘Godzilla’ was a lot more serious Rockford Register Star By Will Pfeifer If you enjoy those Godzilla movies where our gigantic reptilian hero fights a nonstop collection of colossal creatures, each more ridiculous than the last, you might be surprised by the original “Godzilla. … and more » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Movie Man: In his younger days, ‘Godzilla’ was a lot more serious – Rockford Register Star

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AP – Where there are celebrities, there is swag, and the Sundance Film Festival is no exception. Nearly a dozen gift suites opened their doors Friday afternoon along the city’s Main Street. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Swag suites abound at the Sundance Film Festival (AP)

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AP – Mary J. Blige is lending her support — and her voice — to a documentary showing at the Sundance Film Festival about sexual assault in the U.S. military. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Mary J. Blige to pen song for Sundance documentary (AP)

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Reuters – Digital storage services like Megaupload, which was accused of criminal copyright violations on Thursday, play a small but growing role in a broader piracy problem that continues to evolve and dog the entertainment industry. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Digital lockers a growing piracy concern (Reuters)

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AP – Lauren Greenfield’s Sundance Film Festival entry “The Queen of Versailles” tells the story of every American in danger of losing a home amid the economic crisis. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Wealthy hit the skids in Sundance doc ‘Versailles’ (AP)

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AP – Golden Globe winner Claire Danes will be picking up a pudding pot from Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Danes wins pudding pot from Harvard drama group (AP)

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Reuters – In a ripped-from-the-headlines story, the new movie “Miss Bala,” which opens in limited U.S. release on Friday, tells the harrowing tale of a small-town Mexican beauty named Laura who inadvertently becomes involved with a violent drug lord. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: “Miss Bala” puts human face on Mexico’s drug war (Reuters)

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Reuters – Shark thriller “Dark Tide” will debut on video-on-demand three weeks before it makes its theatrical debut, Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill Entertainment announced on Friday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: “Dark Tide” to debut on VOD weeks before theatrical release (Reuters)

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Reuters – Acclaimed Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti will head the jury at the 2012 Cannes film festival in May, organizers said on Friday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Italian Nanni Moretti to head Cannes jury (Reuters)

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Stuff.co.nz Film review : The Descendants Stuff.co.nz The Descendants is a surprising and wonderful beast, capsizing all your expectations of “the latest George Clooney movie ” at every turn. The trailer is saccharine and banal and, thankfully, misleading – we are warned that Matt (Clooney) is a … Will we ever see Alexander Payne’s science fiction satire Downsizing? io9 Interview: Judy Greer on ‘The Descendants’ and Alexander Payne’s ‘intimately … HitFix (blog) all 21 news articles » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Film review: The Descendants – Stuff.co.nz

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koimoi (blog) Good Night Good Morning Times of India Movie Review : You don’t really need a big star cast to send the right message across. Likewise, you don’t even need a big budget to the get the techniques of filmmaking bang on. All you need is perhaps a boy (who could be a hopeless case on the … Good Night | Good Morning Review koimoi (blog) all 9 news articles » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Good Night Good Morning – Times of India

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USA TODAY Son of Tuskegee Airman, others weigh in on ‘Red Tails’ movie WTVR (WTVR) – Many movies goers in Central Virginia were excited Friday after watching the new movie “Red Tails.” Many said they had heard of the Tuskegee Airmen, but did not know the complete story behind the African American Army unit. … Tuskegee Airmen Honored At ‘Red Tails’ Screening In Los Angeles (PHOTOS) Huffington Post “Red Tails” Sells Out Montgomery Movie Theaters WAKA Teachers rush to prepare students after businesswoman pays for 100 students to … Press of Atlantic City KPCnews.com all 411 news articles » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Son of Tuskegee Airman, others weigh in on ‘Red Tails’ movie – WTVR

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Zimbio ‘Drew Peterson: Untouchable’: Rob Lowe: Unbelieveable PopMatters Like other Lifetime movies about bad and unbelievably persuasive men, this one focuses on the horror of the man’s performance, framed by our knowledge that he has since been indicted and now awaits trial for murder. That’s not to say the movie is only … TV Roundup: Stars Who Have Been in Lifetime Movies Zimbio all 44 news articles » RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: ‘Drew Peterson: Untouchable’: Rob Lowe: Unbelieveable – PopMatters

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AP – A fresh dusting of snow over Park City heralded the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Sundance Film Fest opens with 4 films, new snow (AP)

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AP – A judge on Thursday ordered a man charged in the 2008 Chicago slayings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and two other family members to stand trial in April, despite the objections of his attorney, who said she was not ready. RSS Celebrity News Feeds- Read more here: Trial set for man accused of killing Hudson family (AP)

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