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Malcolm Mays, 17, always said heâd be a film director.  Now powerful people are listening.
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With "Death of a President"  -- the film that begins by imagining the assassination of  President Bush -- making headlines at the Toronto International  Film Festival, movies that blend fact and fantasy in a  media-saturated digital age are grabbing the spotlight.
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Alejandro Amenabar's "The Sea Inside," based on the true story of a Spanish quadriplegic who fought for 30 years for the right to end his life, isn't as much of a downer as its subject matter would suggest, thanks to some sly humor and a strong performance from Javier Bardem.
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A dramaâs plot links autism with childhood vaccinations.
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One night while channel surfing, I happened upon the odylic movie "The Bridge" on IFC. I tried to change the channel but was mesmerized and unable to look away. The movie is a hauntingly, beautiful tale of suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
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It&#39;s one thing to watch a special-effects-laden disaster movie about a tsunami or other outrageous act of nature; it&#39;s quite another to watch the TV news and see the devastation wrought by a real-life magnitude 9 earthquake that struck under the Indian
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There&#39;s a popular misconception that it&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any likable characters. Nonsense. The truth, as usual, is a bit more subtle: It&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any empathetic characters. You don&#39;t have to ...
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.
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The ICC Champions Trophy win for the West Indies was like a fairy tale unfolding before our very eyes, but it was not fictional, it was real.
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Christopher Reeve often said he wanted to be known for something other than playing Superman. But it was real life - not another movie role - that gave the actor the chance to star in his biggest drama: as a spinal cord injury victim championing research in hope that people like him would someday be able to walk again.
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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Loosely based on the  soccer-centric Shue clan&#39;s tale of tragedy and triumph in the  late-1970s, &quot;Gracie&quot; is a true family affair.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 2--Imagine living the same day again and again and again.   Fortunately this scenario doesn't happen in real life.
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Some version of the immigrantâs tale told in âGolden Doorâ is part of the family history of millions of Americans.
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The real-life of a murdered aspiring actress has fascinated the public for decades. Sadly, the new movie version is not nearly as compelling
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One way to escape the  rigid rules of Hollywood formula filmmaking these days is to  base your movie on a book. Adapt a movie from a best-seller  like &quot;The Devil Wears Prada,&quot; and you can make up your own  rules.
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The two Albanians who recently hijacked a bus in Athens probably did not know that they were re-enacting the screenplay of Constantine Giannaris' Hostage, itself based on a similar real-life incident that took ...