http://www.kansascity.com/412/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2013Kansas City Star Movie News 60 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:14:40 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253612/adventures-in-barrywood-the-french.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253612/adventures-in-barrywood-the-french.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT There are times when I wish the French hated Jerry Lewis. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253295/latest-fast-furious-chapter-is.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253295/latest-fast-furious-chapter-is.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT If "Fast & Furious 6" were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253609/wikileaks-tale-goes-beyond-site.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253609/wikileaks-tale-goes-beyond-site.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT LOS ANGELES - When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of powerful governments and corporations using little more than his laptop. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253684/steely-cotillard-shines-in-the.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253684/steely-cotillard-shines-in-the.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 09:05 CDT Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253371/jc-chandor-gains-a-cannes-hit.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253371/jc-chandor-gains-a-cannes-hit.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00 CDT J.C. Chandor may just have saved someone's life during an interview in Cannes. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253610/jesse-eisenberg-just-might-be.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253610/jesse-eisenberg-just-might-be.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT ORLANDO, Fla. - Jesse Eisenberg earned an Oscar nomination playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In "Zombieland," he's the narrator who has figured out all manner of "rules" for surviving the zombie apocalypse. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4253293/john-wayne-celebration-a-tribute.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4253293/john-wayne-celebration-a-tribute.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT CHICAGO - You could be forgiven if you thought John Wayne was born in the back of a covered wagon headed west across the Plains or came into this world in a one-room thatched-roof house in a small Irish village. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253458/seen-and-heard-at-the-cannes-film.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253458/seen-and-heard-at-the-cannes-film.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:20 CDT Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253611/alexander-payne-feels-at-home.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253611/alexander-payne-feels-at-home.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else's script for the first time? http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4253294/epic-cant-see-the-forest-for-the.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4253294/epic-cant-see-the-forest-for-the.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT The hopeful title of "Epic" suggests big things in a way that a more accurate title, such as "How to Train Your Hummingbird," would not. The animated result isn't bad. It's an adequate baby sitter. But where's the allure in telling the truth? Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios present "Adequate"? http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253469/takei-says-cho-good-choice-for.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253469/takei-says-cho-good-choice-for.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:35 CDT Portraying USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the latest "Star Trek" movie comes with big shoes to fill, but the man who played the part in the TV series and six films has given his blessing to the actor currently playing the role. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251687/police-jewels-stolen-in-cap-dantibes.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251687/police-jewels-stolen-in-cap-dantibes.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 09:15 CDT Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) - in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251497/seen-and-heard-at-the-cannes-film.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251497/seen-and-heard-at-the-cannes-film.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 06:20 CDT Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251971/capsule-reviews-of-feature-films.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251971/capsule-reviews-of-feature-films.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT ADMISSION 2 1/2 stars. Tina Fey stars as a Princeton admissions officer, Paul Rudd is a hippie-dippie progressive school head lobbying for one of his students, in this odd mix of romantic comedy, improbable soap and Ivy League satire. 1 hr. 57 PG-13 (sex, profanity, adult themes) - Steven Rea http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251655/sorrentino-serves-up-a-cinema.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251655/sorrentino-serves-up-a-cinema.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00 CDT Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251356/theres-no-cure-for-this-miserable.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251356/theres-no-cure-for-this-miserable.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT There is a certain amount of raunchiness, absurdity and juvenile humor expected from the "Hangover" films. The title itself makes it clear this isn't a Mensa tea party. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4252934/wikileaks-leaks-we-steal-secrets.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4252934/wikileaks-leaks-we-steal-secrets.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 21:15 CDT WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "errors and sleight of hand." http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251816/standouts-among-hollywoods-many.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251816/standouts-among-hollywoods-many.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT (EDITORS: Monday is Memorial Day, when we honor the dead from America's wars. To mark the anniversary, Orange County Register Travel Editor Gary A. Warner, the newspaper's one-time military reporter, offers his updated list of the best World War II movies.) http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251567/west-bank-and-romance-prominent.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251567/west-bank-and-romance-prominent.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 07:20 CDT One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251353/furious-6-dumb-fun-in-the-summer.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/23/4251353/furious-6-dumb-fun-in-the-summer.html#storylink=rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00 CDT Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these "Fast and the Furious" pictures. And make no mistake about it - they're bad.