Tom Cruise’s sci-fi adventure, “Oblivion,” arrives on home video this week, and its story similarities to Pixar’s “WALL-E” has triggered another installment of America’s third favorite Coeur d’Alene Press recurring entertainment feature – Cage Match! The protagonists of both “Oblivion” and “WALL-E” are tasked with cleaning up the mess left by apocalyptic calamities. In “WALL-E,” […]
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It’s not a great time to be an aging action star. The relative success of “The Expendables” and its sequel proved there was a legitimate appetite for old-timer butt kickers at the box office. Separate the superteam, however, and the results have been disastrous. In January, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in his first leading role in
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The threat of identity theft is a relatable concern. Being chased by hillbilly bounty hunters and violent criminal organizations is considerably less likely. That’s the kind of antics Jason Bateman must face in “Identity Thief,” a broad and overfamiliar comedy that follows the outline of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” Bateman does what he does best
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The big lesson of this year’s awards season: Don’t snub Ben Affleck. After Affleck failed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, many Oscar prognosticators (yes, those are real people) assumed “Argo” had lost all chance for Best Picture glory. After all, no movie since “Driving Miss Daisy” has won a Best Picture
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At times pulse-pounding and exhausting in detail, “Zero Dark Thirty” is an essential piece of filmmaking and a punctuation mark on a grim decade in American history. Whether it’s an exclamation point or question mark is open for interpretation. The movie follows Maya (Jessica Chastain), a CIA agent who commits 10 years to gathering information
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The year in cinema shouldn’t really be gauged by its highs and lows, as there will always be a few terrible movies and a few great ones. The state of Hollywood is best measured by everything in between – the movies that range between pretty good and utterly forgettable. Thankfully for 2012, the scale tips
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Vampires, fire skulls and Katherine Heigl are responsible for an assortment of Dumpster-worthy movies in 2012. But consider the silver lining – many of the people involved in these train wrecks found success in other, better movies this year. So don’t cry for Channing Tatum or Abraham Lincoln until we run down the best movies
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