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‘Rush’: race car movies still box office poison

Why are movies about race car drivers such a hard sell? Huge stars have flopped in this mini-genre, even at the height of their popularity. Few remember the Steve McQueen picture “Le Mans” — which cost...

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Is Chris Hemsworth a movie star?

Movie industry executives are still dazed by two big surprises over the weekend — the blockbuster grosses scored by Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” and the complete wipe-out of Michael Mann’s...

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‘In Heart of the Sea’: another adult bomb

All summer long my older friends bitched and moaned about the absence of anything other than kiddie stuff at their local multiplexes. It’s true that Hollywood and the theater owners gear summer for the...

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‘Alfred the Great’: a counterculture epic

David Hemmings was part of a wave of new British film stars during the 1960s. Unlike the many Australians who have established themselves in movies recently – Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth et al – the...

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Tom & Denzel: the last movie stars?

The whole concept of movie stars is one of the things we are losing with the increasing shift from theatrical movies to home viewing. The pictures have gotten smaller and so have the performers in...

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