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Emily Blunt used to have a stutter. The 'Young Victoria' actress suffered from the speech impediment while growing up and admits she used to be reluctant to speak as a teenager.

The year's big holiday season brings a special cinematic gift on Dec. 18 with the limited release of "The Young Victoria," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.

Heath Ledger died tragically during the shooting of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus". Today is the eleventh and final day of the St.

In the spirit of the Festival de Cine Mexicano, there's a showing of Pixar's summer hit "Up" with Spanish subtitles at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The director of "An Education" recently lamented, good-naturedly, that she was tired of producers thinking of her for stereotypically female projects.

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Actor Robert De Niro has received the Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film at the Bafta/LA Britannia awards.

THE little Aussie flick Mao's Last Dancer is a big hit in its own land - making $13 million in four weeks and about to bump Muriel's Wedding from the No.10 spot in the chart of highest-grossing Australian films.

So, as I sit down to write this, I've just come from a screening of The Young Victoria , in which Emily Blunt portrays the English queen at the beginning of her reign in the mid 19th century, with much pomp and pretty accents and costumes.

HUMANIZING: After her research into the part, Emily Blunt was determined to show the passion of 'The Young Victoria.' Avoiding haughtiness might keep the actress from being pigeonholed.

Reporting from Oxfordshire, England - Emily Blunt insists her new movie, "The Young Victoria," is "definitely not a history lesson.

THOUGH Michael Buble has done a lot of growing up in the past 18 months, there's still a puppyish energy and cheeky irreverence to the Canadian crooner, and he's come a long way since last year's split from celebrated British actress Emily Blunt.

Films made in Leicestershire have been nominated for key industry awards. Among films nominated for this year's British Independent Film Awards are Nicolas Winding Refn's biopic Bronson, filmed partly in Leicestershire, and Emily Blunt, who receives a best actress nomination for her role as The Young Victoria, filmed at Belvoir Castle near Melton.

The 45th Chicago International Film Festival takes place this year Oct. 8-22 at AMC theatre at 322 E. Illinois St., where 145 films from 45 countries will premiere.

AS FAMILY resemblances go, theirs could hardly be closer. But would Queen Victoria be amused to know Princess Beatrice is her spitting image.

William Kunstler spent most of October 1978 in a Burlington courtroom defending activist Kristina Berster, who had crossed the Quebec-Vermont border illegally.

Emily Blunt is Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend is her husband, Prince Albert, in the historical drama "The Young Victoria." Buzzworthy movies will open and close the Three Rivers Film Festival next month but four dozen-plus other features will be sandwiched between.

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Louis Peitzman, Lynn Rapoport, Ben Richardson, Matt Sussman, and Laura Swanbeck.

After playing Meryl Streep's cruel first assistant in The Devil Wears Prada , Emily Blunt is clearly moving up in the world.

Screen gems aplenty, including the real ones on the crown of Emily Blunt, starring as "The Young Victoria." It's a romantic glimpse into the lives and loves of the mid-19th-century royals.