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The report that Robin Williams had died on Aug. 11 of an apparent suicide by asphyxiation came like that dreaded phone call, the bad news regarding a friend or relative about whom you've long feared the worst.
When you speak, you're mainly using the left hemisphere of your brain.
Chimps will be champs at the box office this weekend. But a vengeful dad and four damaged friends are also vying for their share of summer moviegoers.
Alive Inside (Theaters, July 18)
You know it's a feel-good weekend at the movies when Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon hit the road trip together and Keira Knightley sings Mark Ruffalo back from the brink of despair.
Clint Eastwood and his Jersey boys cruise through the 1960s; Crash director Paul Haggis steers another star vehicle down the rough byways of love; and the Think Like a Man couples limo their way up the Vegas Strip during this something-for-everyone summer-movie weekend.
Aside from a solemn family drama and a not-all-there sci-fi adventure, this might be the weekend to check out the summer movies you've missed in recent weeks.
Seventy years ago, 150,000 Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy. Within hours they had secured a beachhead, and 11 months later Hitler's Third Reich was in ashes.
Tom Cruise finds himself stuck in a time loop, and a Hollywood agent discovers that time is not on his side.
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (Theaters June 6)