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'This is the most frightening thing I've ever seen.'

Just in time for Oscar consideration, “Selma” opens Christmas Day in limited release. The film explores the tumultuous period in 1965 in which Martin Luther King, Jr. led three marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in pursuit of equal voting rights for African Americans. The marches resulted in the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ava DuVernay directs, David Oyelowo plays the inspiring civil rights leader, and Tom Wilkinson portrays the president. The director... Читать дальше...

Lizzie Lowe, 14, had confided in friends about possibly being a lesbian.

The U.S. is re-establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba, but Armando Codina said he isn't ready to invest in the communist country.

This year, we've already seen two examples of filmmakers taking their short films and expanding them to feature length releases: the hugely acclaimed "Whiplash" from Damien Chazelle, and Shawn Christensen with "Before I Disappear." And now, director Diego Ongaro is hoping to weave similar success with "Bob And The Trees." He's headed to the Sundance Film Festival next month to premiere the film. Based on his 2010 short of the same name, the film is led by Bob Tarasuk, playing a 50 year-old logger... Читать дальше...

The cab firm said it usual takes mobile phones, not trees.

Car theft has plunged 58 percent since its all-time high, according to new FBI data.

Ethics head questions whether football body capable of change

Nostalgic upgrade is a reminder that the keyboard king has not kept up

Shares of Carnival and Copa Holdings were among the stocks boosted on normalized diplomatic Cuban relations.

HOMER, Minn. — Think waiting 10 minutes for a train backup at a Winona intersection is bad?

Oil stocks bounced, in their best day in three years.

NASA

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratoryâ??s drill.

Investigators overturn order and free tycoon from house arrest

Beauty and cosmetics company Avon will be in a criminal court hearing this week in Manhattan.

The robot was wheeled through Los Angeles International Airport and onto a Lufthansa flight to Germany.

Some observers say a less acrimonious future between the United States and Iran makes economic sense.

He always said he’d be back, and the one thing the Terminator’s not is a liar. On July 1, 2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in “Terminator Genisys” (um… no, that’s not a typo on our end). This latest installment in the James Cameron-launched franchise places us in 2029, where John Connor (played by Jason Clarke) is leading the resistance against the machines that have taken over the planet. When John learns of a new SkyNet plan to attack him in both the past and the future, he concocts a plot of... Читать дальше...

Oil higher while rouble recovers after rout

Unless you're making "Koyaanisqatsi" or something, film is nothing without the people on screen: even the most egregious piece of CGI porn needs to cut to an engaging human who can sell the reality of the unreality exploding behind them every so often, or it simply won't work. Think of your favorite moments from movies in any genre, and more often than not, they're likely to be scenes, or even shots, that sing because of the actors or actresses in front of the camera as much as the filmmakers behind it. Читать дальше...

Experts are calling for relatively good weather during the final shopping weekend of the holiday season.

Analysing the latest Fed statement

The Fed was expected to keep its target funds rate near zero, as all eyes look toward a possible rate hike next year.