Entertainment
New movie Robot and Frank opens this Friday, August 17, 2012. Oscar nominee Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) opens up in a candid interview in midtown Manhattan with Examiner Dorri Olds.
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“Celeste and Jess Forever” is loosely based on the real life romance-turned-friendship between Rashida Jones (daughter of Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones) and Will McCormack. The movie begins with the couple’s marriage unraveling. Celeste (Rashida Jones), a hard-working and successful businesswoman, is getting more and more aggravated with Jesse (Andy Samberg), who she’s been with “forever.” Jesse smokes a lot of pot, lazes about with dedication and is clearly going nowhere. Celeste decides she want a divorce.
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New thriller movie ‘360’ stars Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Ben Foster. Foster gives a chilling performance as a sex offender out on probation. Movie similar to Babel, Crash and Sliding Doors in different ways.
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Movie Critic Dorri Olds is a Manhattan-based award-winning freelance writer who was born obsessed with movies and celebrities. She’s written for a variety of publications including The New York Times and The Jewish Daily Forward and is a weekly contributor to Petside. Olds sees a dizzying number of movie screenings, interviews A-List actors and is a member of the exclusive organization American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). You may contact Dorri with your comments and questions.
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Due to the high demand for tickets to The Dark Knight Rises Regal Entertainment Group is running 72-hours of continuous “All Knight Long” screenings and “Regal’s Dark Knight Marathon” which shows all 3 Batman films for only $25 beginning 7/19/12.
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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s final installment of his “Dark Knight” Batman trilogy “The Dark Knight Rises” does not disappoint. After 8 years in hiding Batman (Christian Bale) comes to Gotham’s rescue. Anne Hathaway is Catwoman, Tom Hardy plays Bane, with Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Michael Caine returning in their respective roles.
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Rebecca Hall stars in The Awakening, an old school thriller—literally. It is set in 1921 at a haunted boys’ prep school in England and it is a spooky ghost story full of chills.
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Devan Sipher, wedding columnist for The New York Times, has written his first novel, ‘The Wedding Beat.’ It is a humorous romantic chicklit book about a guy who writes a wedding column for a big newspaper.
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Oliver Stone serves up violence and thrills again with the new movie Savages starring John Travolta, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro.
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Rarely will you see a film as bleak as this one. If you want to get depressed about alcoholics ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ with Nic Cage is a far better choice. The movie ‘Crazy Eyes’ is yet another tale of self destruction via alcohol—and not a particularly interesting one. The lead character Zach (Lukas Haas) is a divorced father of a 5-year-old who spends every minute of every day getting drunk and drunker. Also stars Madeline Zima and Jake Busey.
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