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  Screening Room: “Star Trek Into Darkness”

  STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG-13) RUSS After resurrecting the “Star Trek” franchise in 2009 by taking it back to its…
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  Screening Room: “Iron Man 3″

  KANSAS CITY, MO – **IRON MAN 3** (PG-13) Disney/Marvel RUSS Robert Downey, Jr.’s charisma and snarky sense of humor are as…
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  Screening Room: “Pain and Gain,” “Oblivion”

  1. PAIN & GAIN (R) Paramount SHAWN “Pain and Gain” is like “Transformers” without the robots. “Goodfellas” without Scorsese’s sauce….
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  Screening Room: “42,” “Trance,” “The Place Beyond the Pines”

  KANSAS CITY, Mo — **42 (PG-13)** RUSS As the old Count Basie song went, “Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit…
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  “Sunday in the Park with George” on display at Off Center Theatre

  KANSAS CITY, Mo — “The art of making art, is putting it together…bit by bit.” Those lyrics by musical theatre…
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  Screening Room: “Jack the Giant Slayer,” “21 and Over”

  KANSAS CITY, MO — JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (PG-13) RUSS Fee-fi-fo-fum, “Jack the Giant Slayer” left me numb. After viewing…
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  Screening Room Home Video Edition: “Pitch Perfect,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days”

  KANSAS CITY, MO — HOME VIDEO SCREENING ROOM PITCH PERFECT RUSS Anna Kendrick plays a socially awkward college freshman who…
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  “A Spectacular Christmas” at Crown Center

  Striving to get into the festive spirit of the season? Still feeling a bit ‘humbug’ about the holidays? One way…
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  Screening Room: Hitchcock, Playing For Keeps

  KANSAS CITY, Mo — Welcome to the Screening Room. I’m Russ Simmons. Shawn Edwards will be back next week. HITCHCOCK…
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  Screening Room: “Breaking Dawn, Part 2,” “Lincoln”

  KANSAS CITY, MO — BREAKING DAWN PART 2 SHAWN Bella played by Kristen Stewart is a vampire now. And we…
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  Screening Room “Flight” and “Wreck-it, Ralph”

  KANSAS CITY, MO – FLIGHT (R) RUSS Sometimes, the success or failure of a movie is utterly dependent on the…
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  Screening Room: “Cloud Atlas,” “Fun Size.”

  KANSAS CITY, MO – RUSS You may need an atlas to navigate your way through the labyrinth called “Cloud Atlas,”…