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Filmed Over 12 Years, 'Boyhood' Follows A Kid's Coming Of Age

1:32pm December 12, 2014

Writer-director Richard Linklater says picking the film's star was vital because he had to guess what he'd be like at 18. "I just went with a kid who seemed kind of the most interesting."

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Depicting An Unstable Era, 'Inherent Vice' Never Jells, But It's Addictive

1:32pm December 12, 2014

by David Edelstein

The film, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel, is set in 1970 in a beach town south of Los Angeles. With wonderful actors, it's like a gorgeous stoner art object: groovy, campy, dreamlike and funny.

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Rosario Dawson (left) plays Chelsea Brown, a New York Times reporter who spends a day interviewing Rock's character, Andre Allen.

Arts

'Top Five': A Good, Not Great, Day In New York With Chris Rock

11:12am December 12, 2014

by Linda Holmes

Chris Rock's new comedy is strong on industry satire, but gets a little watery with the romance.

Hacked Sony Emails Pull The Curtain Back On Hollywood

6:39pm December 11, 2014

Audie Cornish speaks with Ben Fritz of The Wall Street Journal about the fallout from the leaked emails of Hollywood executives at Sony Pictures and what it reveals about the modern studio system.

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Joaquin Phoenix stars as Larry "Doc" Sportello â a private investigator with a pot smoking habit â in Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson's film adaptation of the novel by Thomas Pynchon.

Arts

The 1970s, Ugly And Adrift In 'Inherent Vice'

5:03pm December 11, 2014

by Ella Taylor

Paul Thomas Anderson is a master of outlining times and places occupied by his strange dreamers. Inherent Vice, set in California in the 1970s, gets many things right, even if it's a bit too epic.

Nico Rockwell and Lana Rockwell star in Little Feet.

Arts

In A Serious Season, The Loose Charms Of 'Little Feet'

5:03pm December 11, 2014

by Tomas Hachard

Filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell features his own children in a charming, uneven, energetic film about siblings on a journey to set a goldfish free.

Actor Samuel Lange Zambrano plays Junior, a boy who becomes obsessed with relaxing his hair.

Arts

'Pelo Malo' Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations

1:23pm December 11, 2014

by Jasmine Garsd

A new Venezuelan film explores racism and homophobia through the experiences of 9-year-old Junior, who drives his mother up a wall in a quest to straighten his thick, curly "pelo malo," or "bad hair."

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James Franco (left) and Seth Rogen in The Interview. The North Korean dictator promised "merciless counter-measures" if this film was released.

North Korea's Cyber Skills Get Attention Amid Sony Hacking Mystery

12:32pm December 10, 2014

by Elise Hu

A North Korean official now denies its involvement in one of the worst corporate hacks in history, after a different official played coy. How sophisticated are the Hermit Kingdom's hackers?

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'The Interview,' The Hack, And The Movie Studio Dealing With The Fallout

6:23am December 10, 2014

by Kim Masters

A cyber attack on Sony may have been done by North Koreans in response to an new comedy about an attempt to kill Kim Jong Un. Huge amounts of personal data and five films have been leaked so far.

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Sean Connery sits beside his co-star, English actress Shirley Eaton, covered in gold, during the filming of a scene from Goldfinger in 1964.

National

FBI Wanted Little To Do With James Bond, Memo Reveals

9:36am December 09, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

In response to a request from the producers of Goldfinger, the FBI said Ian Fleming's novels "generally center around sex and bizarre situations."