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Master stop-motion visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday at age 92. There have been multiple farewells and remembrances of the man who brought so many mythical monsters to life on the big screen, but Sony Movie Channel is saying farewell the best way possible: actually showing his movies. On Saturday, the channel will air three of Harryhausen's films from its library: "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" and "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. " The films will follow a documentary about the man and work titled, "Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan," which will air at 9:45 a.m. PDT. PHOTOS: Ray Harryhausen -- Career in pictures "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" was released in 1958 and was the first of the three Sinbad movies Harryhausen produced for Columbia.

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Today, we are reminded of these universal truths: “Life is very long” (T.S. Eliot). “Family holds us up….Family knocks us down.” And Meryl Streep is poised for a 2013 Oscar. The trailer for “August: Osage County,” based on Tracy Letts' 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is out Friday. The film, directed by John Wells, centers on a dysfunctional Oklahoma family whose drug-addicted matriarch, Streep, is dying of mouth cancer.

This review has been corrected. See below for details. "Flashdance the Musical" has its way over "Flashdance" the movie in at least one critical regard: The show's plucky heroine - as you'll recall: welder by day! nonstripping stripper by night! - is played by just one actress, as opposed to the constant cutting from Jennifer Beals to body double Marine Jahan that makes the 1983 film almost unwatchable as a contemporary TV rerun. Actually, the stage version would be a riot if a stand-in for the leading lady ran in every time a dance routine begins.

In one of the most anticipated box office showdowns of the summer, "The Hangover Part III" is hoping to get a jump start on "Fast & Furious 6. " The final installment in Todd Phillips' raunchy R-rated comedy franchise was slated to face off against "Fast & Furious 6" at the multiplex on May 24. But as Universal Pictures' action flick continues to generate more interest among young male moviegoers, Warner Bros. has decided to release the third "Hangover" on May 23. (Technically, both films open on that Thursday, since the latest "Fast" film will have late-night screenings on the 23rd.)

As "New Girl" fans eye next week's season finale and its surprising Taylor Swift-ness, one of the show's stars is preparing to turn his attention elsewhere: to the movies. Jake Johnson, who plays the slacker-y Nick Miller opposite Zooey Deschanel's quirky Jess, is set to spend his hiatus in New Orleans shooting an action comedy titled "Let's Be Cops" opposite Damon Wayans Jr. This after premiering his new movie "The Pretty One" at the Tribeca Film Festival last month and his other new movie, "Drinking Buddies," at SXSW in March (that one's set to come out from Magnolia Pictures)

Even as Zach Braff was taking heat for asking the public to help finance his next movie, the actor and director was contributing to another Kickstarter campaign -- to help save a historic theater in Northern California. Braff was among nearly 500 donors who helped raise $65,753 through the Kickstarter crowd-funding site to help the owners of the Rio Theater in the small town of Monte Rio raise enough funds to buy a digital projector. As the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday , many small-town theaters nationwide are holding such fundraisers to survive the transition to digital.

This is a work on paper: on studio white seamless paper, normally a backdrop used in film shoots. There's a black frame painted with latex house paint, then inside is this citron-tinted low-luster enamel paint. I'm the ultimate film nerd, so I saw the yellow shape as a film screen right away because it's exact same ratio as a 16- or 35-millimeter film projection. Someone else might just see as a yellow rectangle. INTERACTIVE: It Speaks to Me series   But the other thing that connects it to film is a sense of duration.

"There are things you can get away with in this world, and things you can't. " The voice is Matthew McConaughey's, and days after seeing him in "Mud," I can close my eyes and hear him still - a simple line echoing with the mysteries of a man caught in the emotional muck and Mississippi mud of Jeff Nichols' fine new drama. McConaughey's voice is like that, so specifically seasoned by Texas you know it sight unseen. That's the power of a drawl, the way it can wrap entire stories and an ocean of feelings in honeyed tones; the way it can fit a person, a character, like broken-in jeans.

Eager to check out a midnight movie this month? Some options: Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Ave. (323) 655-2510 cinefamily.org May 10 - "Bad Dreams" May 11 - "The Drifting Classroom" May 17 - "Tango & Cash" May 24 - "I Drink Your Blood" May 31 - "Altered States" New Beverly, 7165 W. Beverly Blvd. (323) 938-4038 newbevcinema.com May 11 - "Strictly Ballroom" May 18 - "Romeo + Juliet" May 25 - "Moulin Rouge!" Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd.

MONTE RIO, Calif. - On the redwood-lined banks of the Russian River, dozens of local residents and tourists gathered in a grassy field on a hot Sunday afternoon, lining up to buy raffle tickets and $10 plates of barbecued chicken as a bluegrass group rehearsed a number for a Ramble at the Rio concert. It might have been a church social or a school fundraising picnic. But this event was to raise money to save a centerpiece of the community: the Rio Theater. VIDEO: Upcoming summer films Built from a World War II Quonset hut and adorned with murals from local artists, the Rio has been screening films in this town of about 1,200 people since 1950.