TV/Movies

Bella mopes through pretentious 'New Moon'

Movie Review: Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle?
Modified: 11/20/09 08:48:38 AM

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'Precious' piles on a lot of melodrama

Movie Review: Not since the Looney Tunes glory days of Wile E. Coyote have I seen a character take so much abuse and immediately come back fresh and recharged.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:15:37 AM

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Feel-good 'Blind Side' flits past the clichés

Movie Review: I'm so relieved. After seeing the trailer for "The Blind Side," I thought it was going to be a member of that annoying subgenre skewered so effectively in an old MadTV skit: the nice white lady as the savior of inner-city youth.
Modified: 11/20/09 09:03:05 AM

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Not many laughs on 'Planet 51'

Movie Review: How might a kid - OK, a teenager - protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies (including "The Fourth Kind"), the anal probe?
Modified: 11/20/09 11:35:16 AM

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Oprah to pull plug on show in 2011

Oprah Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast today, Harpo Productions Inc. said.
Modified: 11/20/09 07:33:51 AM

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Dull, except for the acting

Movie Review: You know a movie doesn't have much going for it when the only thing your friends who've seen it have to say is that the performances are good.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:14:11 AM

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DVD Picks

In the late 1960s, budding über movie star Robert Redford was just starting to accumulate his Hollywood clout.
Modified: 11/18/09 05:38:43 PM

Tiana is more than just a princess

Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:16:46 PM

Our unending fascination with The End

Pop culture has a fascination with end times. Sociologists say the interest in books and movies on the subject increases with bad times.
Modified: 11/19/09 06:35:16 AM

Game Picks

It seems like something that should be an afterthought in the current generation of game consoles, but dribbling in modern soccer games hadn't been done before "FIFA Soccer 10" (Xbox 360, PS3; Rated E).
Modified: 11/20/09 11:38:06 AM

Nice guy finds his inner wolf

Movie Review: "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" was screened after our deadline. Look for a review on www.newsobserver.com
Modified: 11/20/09 11:16:40 AM

And the winner of the Guy Fieri contest is ...

Keith Mason of Coats won a pair of tickets to see Food Network host Guy Fieri's traveling roadshow Saturday at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh.
Modified: 11/18/09 02:39:21 PM

Charlotte woman gets a chance on 'Chef Academy'

Bravo's latest entry in its lineup of mouth-watering reality shows is "Chef Academy," which follows Michelin-winning, London-based French chef Jean Christophe Novelli, who comes to Venice, Calif., to start a culinary institute.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:08:13 PM

'Twilight' star tries to tune out obsessed tabloids

Kristen Stewart was a bundle of nerves talking about "Twilight" a year ago. She's far more confident these days as "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" gets ready to rise in movie theaters Nov. 20.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:21:35 PM

A new Mayberry comes to life in Apex

If the pictures in John Demers' mind come to life, the newest thing in family "edutainment" television could have an Apex address.
Modified: 11/13/09 05:29:57 PM

Actually, you can say that on TV

Ever since George Carlin laid out the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" in 1972, television writers have been digging more deeply into the thesaurus.
Modified: 11/14/09 04:21:08 AM

Duke University trip inspires 'Project Runway' finalist

Wait, this isn't the last episode of the worst season of Project Runway? Sigh. Fine.
Modified: 11/13/09 10:38:25 AM

Biggest Loser Daniel: 'I don't want to lose weight now and lose at life later'

Daniel Wright's second appearance on "The Biggest Loser" may have been more emotional than the first.
Modified: 11/13/09 10:42:46 AM

'2012': a catastrophe in so many ways

Movie Review: For a film about the end of the world, "2012" is so 1996. I know that's where my mind went while watching it.
Modified: 11/13/09 12:09:21 PM

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'Pirate Radio' is sloppy, but you'll still feel good

Movie Review: Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.
Modified: 11/13/09 09:18:12 AM

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