Entertainment Columns
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Why 'Hunger Games' is a great film franchiseNov 20, 2015 4:15 am - "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2" opens Friday, bringing the cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins' hit novels to a close. What began as a modestly budgeted, fle...
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Reel life: Readers take on 007, 'Peanuts' reviewsNov 12, 2015 5:15 am - Dann: Had to laugh that you could not understand how Bond got the car to Rome, or not having effects from (sorry, spoiler deleted!). What about the other 1,001 things Bo...
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Avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson calls Glen Ellyn upbringing idyllicNov 10, 2015 4:00 am - Laurie Anderson vividly remembers the night she almost drowned her two little brothers in a Glen Ellyn lake. In her new impressionistic movie "Heart of a Dog," opening F...
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Mark your calendar for holiday events at Geneva CommonsNov 10, 2015 12:00 am - You might think it's too early to think about Christmas, but businesses up and down the Randall Road corridor are wasting no time preparing for the holidays. In fact, th...
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Reel life: Revisit 'Goodfellas' at Elk Grove TheatreNov 05, 2015 5:45 am - Critics notebook: • The Chicago Film Critics Association presents Martin Scorsese's digitally remastered “Goodfellas” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Elk Grove T...
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Six bucks a month for new 'Trek'? Beam me upNov 04, 2015 5:00 am - Klingons, Romulans and Vulcans (oh my!) are coming back to TV ... for one episode. I could complain that the forthcoming “Star Trek” series was created solely to get peo...
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Reel life: Do you like scary movies?Oct 29, 2015 5:45 am - Redbox publicist Debra Caron recently emailed me a survey of 800 customers who named the five scariest movies of all time: 1. "The Exorcist" 2. "A Nightmare on Elm Stree...
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For Blu-rays, the end is nigh — and that's good newsOct 28, 2015 5:00 am - My fiancee and I recently moved, and the most cumbersome part wasn't the couch or the entertainment center — it was our physical media collection. I have two 23-gallon f...
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East Dundee to hold Masquerade Ball on HalloweenOct 27, 2015 11:00 pm - For the last week or two, Halloween festivities have been mainly for the kids in Dundee Township. Last weekend, West Dundee hosted a party for hundreds of children, as d...
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Midwest travel: Supper club celebrates 'Rocky Horror'Oct 24, 2015 7:15 am - Chicago Do the time warp again Squeeze into the fishnets and spangled corset before heading to Untitled Supper Club to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the cu...