Posted on January 15, 2015 at 10:16 am
David Heyman was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the smartest people in Hollywood. It may be because he grabbed the rights to a children’s book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I enjoyed his latest movie, “Paddington,” also based on a beloved children’s book series, and it was a lot of fun …
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Posted on January 15, 2015 at 8:00 am
If it did not actually happen, no one would believe it. Four undocumented high school students with no money entered an underwater robotics competition, decided to compete against the college teams instead of the other high schools, and won, triumphing over past winner MIT, which had not only some of the top engineering students in …
Posted on January 14, 2015 at 3:46 pm
Until a few years ago, the movie critics you read were determined by geography. There were a few critics in national publications, like Pauline Kael in the New Yorker and the critics for Time and Newsweek. If you lived in Chicago, you got to read Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, but if you did not, …
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Posted on January 14, 2015 at 8:00 am
I love oddball collections and exhibits, so many thanks to Augustine of Atlas Obscura for letting us know about the Toy and Action Figure Museum. If you can’t make it to Oklahoma just yet, check out this very cool 360 virtual tour. Totally putting this one on my must-see list.
Posted on January 14, 2015 at 6:00 am
“Little Accidents” is a tense drama with Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook (“The Skeleton Twins,” “Gone Girl”), Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, and Jacob Lofland (Mud, FX’s “Justified”). It opens Friday, January 16th in select theaters nationwide, VOD Platforms and iTunes. In this exclusive “Bible Study” clip the character played by Elizabeth Banks has lost her son …
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