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UK film outlawed for blasphemy finally unbanned
Jan. 31, 2012 10:25 AM ET (AP)
The only movie ever banned in Britain for blasphemy was finally approved for distribution Tuesday, 23 years after it was outlawed.
The experimental short film "Visions of Ecstasy" features scenes of...
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Sundance doc examines costs of US war on drugs
Jan. 27, 2012 4:29 AM ET (AP)
Eugene Jarecki's documentary at the Sundance Film Festival looks at the cost of America's war on drugs _ its social and human as well as financial cost.
With "The House I Live In," the filmmaker takes...
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Oscars voting to go electronic
Jan. 25, 2012 5:12 PM ET (AP)
Potential Oscar winners will now be a click away from winning a trophy.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it has partnered with a company to develop an electronic...
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Spike Lee frustrated by lack of diversity in film
Jan. 23, 2012 7:57 PM ET (AP)
Spike Lee just premiered the fifth film in his "continuing chronicles of Brooklyn, N.Y.," at the Sundance Film Festival, but the filmmaker is still frustrated at the lack of diversity in the...
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Vets' advocate has key role in whale rescue film
Jan. 24, 2012 6:24 PM ET (AP)
Bonnie Carroll is well-known in veterans' circles as the founder of a vast organization that provides grief counseling and help for thousands of families of fallen military members.
But it was her...