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Hitchcock thriller ‘North by Northwest' celebrates 50 years

Hitchcock's thriller remains one of the most entertaining movies ever made. Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the president's noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious spies? In fact, Alfred...

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New on DVD

In exposing the unsavory practices of agribusiness, Robert Kenner's muckraking documentary cuts to the bone. Commingling style and substance, it infiltrates the teeming facilities where disease is bred on the assembly line and...

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Films from Argentina, France and Norway are among this week's movie offerings

Showing on Seattle-area screens: Lisandro Alonso's "La Libertad," Alain Cavalier's "Le Combat Dans L'Ile," Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg's "Max Manus" and more. It begins with a Wednesday screening of his first feature,...

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'Gentlemen Broncos': A Psychedelic Sci-Fi Comedy

Audio for this story from Fresh Air from WHYY will be available at approx. 3:00 p.m. ET Fox Searchlight Gentlemen Broncos centers on a sci-fi geek (Michael Angarano, left) and the famous writer (Jemaine Clement) who steals his...

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An American Tragedy

By James Bowman from the November 2009 issue Just as we have now arrived at the cultural moment where we have to define art as whatever is displayed in an art gallery or museum, so we also have to define comedy as whatever is...

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Things TV is never allowed to do again

Heads up: I'm appearing at the Hideout Nov. 11 as part of this Funny Ha-Ha event. Posted by: Mary | November 04, 2009 at 02:27 PM Things TV Is Never Allowed to Do Again: * No cable show is allowed to use gratuitous nudity and...

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Sharp Reviews Of A Varied Collection Of Motion Pictures (Gilbert Norton)

We have some films reviewed in the following paragraphs. If you want to locate a movie download site do a search online. You can find good results with by searching "Buy And Download Movies Online", "Internet DVD Rental" and...

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Harry Alan Towers: Prolific radio, television and film producer and screenwriter

As entertainment moguls go, Harry Alan Towers was never in the same league as David O. Zelnick or Louis B. Mayer, but at least he had a proper middle name; and during a long career in radio, television and films he acquired a...

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North By Northwest (Blu-Ray)

Editor's Note Our review of North By Northwest, published December 18th, 2000, is also available. Facts of the Case Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant, Charade) is an ordinary businessman just going about his usual day. They take him...

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Revisiting the ‘North by Northwest’ territory

Who can forget those images -- Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the president’s noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious...

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