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Movie Review: ‘The Nut Job’ offers animated antics at a manic pace pay off in this cute slapstick comedy

If you’re going to make cartoons about critters, the late Chuck “Looney Toons” Jones used to preach, build them around the animal’s chief concern – survival. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are always avoiding the shotgun and the stew pot. Wile E. Coyote is desperate for a dinner of road runner. That principle pays off […]

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Movie Preview: Chris Pine’s Jack Ryan is a different kind of patriot-hero

LOS ANGELES — Chris Pine was well aware of his action-hero options. Accepting the lead role in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” – the $60-million thriller that hit theaters Friday – the actor became the fourth man to portray novelist Tom Clancy’s iconic CIA super-spy character over the course of a five-film franchise that has spanned […]