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Polanski requests dismissal of sex charge
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski, a fugitive for 30 years in a notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The motion filed Tuesday alleges that a documentary about the filmmaker released this year revealed "a pattern of misconduct and improper communications" between the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and the judge in Polanski's case.
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| 'Four Christmases' finds holiday cheer |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. release, featuring Witherspoon and Vaughn as a couple suffering through four separate family holiday gatherings, raised its total to $46.7 million since opening Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.
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MOVIE REVIEWS
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Australia
Overlong and self-indulgent, Baz Luhrmann's "Australia," a homage to epic adventure films, feels like a slog through the outback itself. And yet it can be a visually wondrous journey, one with striking visuals that will take your breath away again and again.
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Associated Press
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Four Christmases
The size difference between Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon isn't the only thing keeping them apart in "Four Christmases."
His signature rat-a-tat overconfidence and her pleasing girl-next-door perkiness turns out to be an awkward mix. Individually likable, Vaughn and Witherspoon never really seem to mesh as a couple.
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Associated Press
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Bolt
Like Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man and other human superheroes, Bolt uses his extraordinary powers to chomp evil. He’s super fast, super strong and super loyal to Penny, the girl whose brilliant scientist dad altered the previously normal white puppy she’d adopted from the Silver Lake Animal Rescue shelter, transforming him into Bolt the super dog.
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John
Wirt's
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Twilight
Humans always want what they can’t have. In Twilight, a teen romance with a beguiling twist, we learn that a sweet, oddly awkward, dreamboat of a young vampire named Edward wants what he can’t have, too.
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John
Wirt's
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Perhaps the opening sequence of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” — with innocent children running and playing on their way home from school, all while Nazi flags wave in Berlin and soldiers lurk and bang on doors in tucked away streets — is meant to be a microcosm of the film to come.
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Brett
Troxler's
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Quantum of Solace
Even if the latest James Bond movie doesn’t top its smashing predecessor, 2006’s Casino Royale, it more than lives up to its action-packed trailer.
Daniel Craig, in his second turn as the intrepid 007, battles through more marathon action sequences and international plots.
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John
Wirt's
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The gang from Madagascar, that 2005 computer-animated hit, is all here: Alex the posing, city-raised lion; Melman the hypochondriac giraffe; Marty the wisecracking zebra; and Gloria the laid-back hippo.
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John
Wirt's
review
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Associated Press
Writers'
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Role Models
“Role Models” follows Danny Donahue (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott), two energy drink reps who can hardly be considered model citizens. When Danny has a terrible day, he explodes on the job, causing himself and Wheeler to be in serious trouble. Danny’s lawyer girlfriend, Beth (Elizabeth Banks) is able to keep them from 30 days of jail time only if the two agree to participate in 150 hours of community service with a Big Brother program.
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Rachel
Shepard's
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Soul Men
Critics and audiences have not been good to Soul Men, a comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac as a pair of estranged musical partners who reunite for an Apollo Theatre tribute to their deceased lead singer.
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John
Wirt's
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Associated Press
Writers'
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