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NOTE: Movie times (p.m. unless indicated otherwise) are for the week of Friday, August 22, 2008 to Thursday, August 29, 2008
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Coogan's bluff
This is the summer of Steve Coogan.
MOVIES: Fall fare
Now may be the time to spring those plans for world domination.
MOVIES: Best of the rest
From assassins to porn stars to con men, there are more than just stodgy aspiring Oscar winners populating this fall's film season (although there are those, too).
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MOVIES: Fall fare (Aug. 24, 2008)
Now may be the time to spring those plans for world domination.
MOVIES: Best of the rest (Aug. 24, 2008)
From assassins to porn stars to con men, there are more than just stodgy aspiring Oscar winners populating this fall's film season (although there are those, too).
MOVIES: A Star is reborn (Aug. 10, 2008)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chicago may have been Sinatra's "kind" of town, but 'Frisco is George Lucas' town -- on either side of the Golden Gate Bridge, at least.
COMIC CON: Little stands still in new film version (Jul. 25, 2008)
SAN DIEGO -- "Klaatu Barada Nikto." But Keanu?
COMIC CON: Where nerds and geeks rule (Jul. 24, 2008)
SAN DIEGO -- It sounds like a comic-book origin: puny gathering gets blasted by buzz and transforms into a hip Hollywood titan.
MOVIES: Oh, Brothers! (Jul. 20, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- This is the story of a media conference where straight answers are as scarce as cashews in a can of no-name mixed nuts. And speaking of nuts ...
You'll die laughing (Jul. 20, 2008)
Why is the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike over the potential of future Internet revenues? Look no further than Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's website, Funny Or Die -- exhibit A for Hollywood's multimedia future.
FILM: Imagine that (Jul. 8, 2008)
And Ugly Naked Guy thought he'd never work again.
Hollywood playing superhero to comics (Jul. 4, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- It was a conspiracy worthy of any arch-villain: Declining sales, aging fans and an explosion of digitally driven entertainment options.
Get Smarter (Jun. 15, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- For those of you who don't know the cone of silence from Coneheads, here's a primer on the 1960s Get Smart television series before it gets recycled on the big screen this Friday:
Where there's a will, there's HATHAWAY (Jun. 15, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Anne Hathaway was on a covert mission of her own when she snagged the sought-after role of sleek, slinky Agent 99 in this Friday's Get Smart upgrade.
MOVIES: Will Hulk be a smash hit? (Jun. 8, 2008)
Splitting his purple pants is the least of the Hulk's worries as he rampages back into theatres this Friday.
Credible Hulk: Facts on our fave green giant (Jun. 8, 2008)
BORN: May 1962 in the aptly titled The Incredible Hulk #1.
It's not easy being green (Jun. 8, 2008)
Few comic-book characters have undergone as many transformations as the Hulk and his "puny human" alter-ego Bruce Banner.
THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: What's in a name? (Jun. 8, 2008)
How do you market a film with a profanity in the title? "Actually," says Young People F---ing director Martin Gero, "since this is my first feature, I wouldn't know how you market a film that doesn't have a profanity in the title.
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Features
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Coogan's bluff (Aug. 26, 2008)
This is the summer of Steve Coogan.
DVDS: Girls, like, so get it (Aug. 24, 2008)
It is obvious I am not now, nor have I ever been, a teenaged girl, although I have been known to cry at emotional movies.
Oscars need a special Knight (Aug. 24, 2008)
Saving Gotham City was a minor feat compared to the next task confronting Hollywood's dark knight: Rescuing the Oscars from ratings oblivion.
Here comes the Rainn again (Aug. 21, 2008)
Actor Rainn Wilson was like a lot of kids growing up with dreams of stardom and starting his own rock and roll band.
Out of Office reply (Aug. 21, 2008)
Rainn Wilson says the response in the early screenings of The Rocker have been great but he's found the question-and-answer sessions in select cities afterward to be a bit confusing.
MOVIES: Lovin' every minute of it (Aug. 21, 2008)
With the film The Rocker being a good gateway for music discussion, Rainn Wilson joked that he was presenting Loverboy with their Lifetime Achievement Awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards, which took place in mid-June.
Film stars set to shine in Toronto (Aug. 20, 2008)
Movies profiling everyone from Che Guevara to LeBron James.
Singer finds a lot to draw on in her history (Aug. 19, 2008)
As an immigrant child growing up in Canada, Karen David was bullied and made to feel awkward because she was so different from "the norm" in school. Now her complex heritage is a remarkable asset she uses in her music, as well as in film and TV work.
DVDS: Much made of David (Aug. 19, 2008)
Karen David's father peeked at the poster for The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior -- his daughter's first starring role --and turned shy and awkward.
Original beauty hits big screen (Aug. 19, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Rumer Willis has much to be grateful for.
As the daughter of stars, Rumer has it (Aug. 19, 2008)
Although Rumer Willis has had bit roles in a few of her parents' movies (Demi Moore's Striptease and Bruce Willis's the Whole Nine Yards), most of her experience has been on the outside looking in.
Allen says actor angst wasted and pointless (Aug. 18, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Woody Allen thinks it's funny that so many great actors take their craft so seriously.
DVDS: Fine China (Aug. 17, 2008)
China is mounting a sometimes spectacular Olympic Games in Beijing. The pride of a complex, conflicted nation is at stake.
MOVIES: Hop to It (Aug. 17, 2008)
So how do you prepare for a role as one of Hugh Hefner's favourite Playboy Mansion bunnies?
Director wants jaws to drop (Aug. 15, 2008)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Breakfast is barely over and Kiefer Sutherland's mind is already on bisected body parts and gore-splattered death.
On the attack (Aug. 14, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Tropic Thunder has no boundaries for its bad taste.
Cruz's persistent insecurity drove director Allen crazy (Aug. 14, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Woody Allen knew he was making a comedy when he was shooting Vicky Cristina Barcelona in Spain. Penelope Cruz approached it as a drama.
MOVIES: Red-hot Scarlett (Aug. 13, 2008)
Sultry Scarlett Johansson is the Cristina in Woody Allen's sexy new comedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Downey all pumped up for Iron Man II (Aug. 12, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Buoyed by the phenomenal success of Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. is eager to sequelize.
Dark humour a risk (Aug. 12, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Unlike Dustin Hoffman, who took his "woman" for a public walk when he did Tootsie, Robert Downey Jr. kept his "black self" private when he shot the comedy Tropic Thunder.
DVDS: Master of his universe (Aug. 12, 2008)
Colourful, curmudgeonly and confrontational, Harlan Ellison is one of the 10 "masters" involved in Masters of Science Fiction.
DVDS: Outta this world! (Aug. 10, 2008)
Spaced -- it's the latest final frontier of British humour.
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