Entertainment Columns
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Good grief! Gire sizes up fall film game planSep 12, 2015 12:45 pm - Sure, the fall movie season packs some anticipated punches - the fourth Daniel Craig 007 thriller, the final “Hunger Games” chapter, the next disappointing “Paranormal A...
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Reel life: Bill Moseley's 'Alleluia!' breaks this weekendSep 10, 2015 5:15 am - Barrington's bad boy Ask actor Bill Moseley the secret to playing frighteningly real psychopaths and he'll tell it to you. "I just believe I'm the only sane one in the r...
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Finally, a reason to buy a Wii USep 09, 2015 11:00 pm - After almost three years of being overshadowed by the more powerful, adult-oriented video game consoles from Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo's Wii U will at last become a m...
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The Force is already with toy storesSep 04, 2015 5:00 am - Force Friday has arrived! What's Force Friday? It's the day when nostalgic parents across the globe can buy their children action figures for a film they won't be ab...
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Reel life: Revisit 'Blade Runner' at Elk Grove TheatreSep 03, 2015 5:45 am - Film critics notebook: • The Chicago Film Critics Association presents Ridley Scott's genre-defining tale of future gasp, “Blade Runner,” at 1 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, S...
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Midwest travel: On your mark, get set, go-kart!Aug 29, 2015 7:10 am - Top pick Life is a highway The annual Rock Island Grand Prix is a go-kart race that attracts the world's best drivers to the Quad Cities to compete in the larg...
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Reel life: 'Mistress' cast-igates sexism, script ad-libsAug 20, 2015 5:45 am - Actress Greta Gerwig, most famous as the figurehead of the "mumblecore" film movement, has evolved into an actress-producer-writer hyphenate with filmmaker Noah Baumbach...
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Ni! 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' celebrates 40 years of sillinessAug 19, 2015 6:00 am - So there I was, about to cross the Bridge of Death (it's in the suburbs, don't you know), when I was stopped by a gruff, one-eyed man who looked like the poor old sod on...
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Midwest travel: All directions meet at Albany Park's World FestAug 15, 2015 7:00 am - Chicago We are the World Fest There may not be a neighborhood in the city that's more diverse than Albany Park (more than 70 languages are spoken there), which...
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New 'Frozen' short film comes homeAug 14, 2015 6:00 am - Anna and Elsa are back! It's up to you to decide whether that's a threat or a promise. “Frozen Fever,” the seven-minute short film bundled with Disney's live-action “Cin...