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Beautifully shot yet muted as a drama, ‘News of the World’ brings the post-Civil War Southwest to life in the unlikely journey of a lost girl and a jaded veteran who helps her find home. Ten years ago, auteur filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen brought a surprisingly sincere revisionist Western to the big screen over Christmas weekend. Out last weekend in theaters, “News of the World” offers a similar throwback film without quite the edge or mass appeal. The Coens’ 2010 take on “True Grit,” a remake of the John Wayne classic, followed a grizzled U.S. Marshal (Jeff Bridges)...

RUSH: Tomorrow, the movie United 93 opens, and I have seen the movie. I saw a screening a couple weeks ago, and I asked for an interview with the writer and the director, Paul Greengrass, and conducted that interview last week. It's for the upcoming issue of The Limbaugh Letter, and I want you to know how rare this is, folks. I can count on one hand the number of times over the course of many years that we have actually played audio excerpts of an interview in the Limbaugh Letter, and done so in advance of the issue coming...

A second major Hollywood film is to be made about the September 11 terrorist attacks, it emerged today. Flight 93 will be made British director Paul Greengrass and cover the flight in real time, beginning with takeoff and ending when passengers bought it down in Pennsylvania, Variety magazine reports. It will follow Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone`s film based on the true story of two police officers trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers. The yet-untitled picture will star Nicholas Cage and is currently in pre-production. Flight 93 will depict how the United Airlines flight was hijacked by terrorists...