Movies
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Illinois 200: Illinois provides the setting for cinema favorites
Nov 18, 2018 7:00 AM - From "The Blues Brothers" to "The Breakfast Club" Chicago and the suburbs have provided the backdrop for some classic movies. Here are some others filmed across Illinois.
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What a glorious feeling: The 31 best dance scenes in movies
Nov 18, 2018 7:24 AM - What do dance scenes add to a movie? Unspeakable bliss, for starters. Dancing starts when dialogue fails. When lovers need to move beyond conversation, when conflicts boil past negotiation, when joy can't be expressed in any other way than by leaping into the air on a trumpeter's high note. -
Movie review: 'The Front Runner' a better journalism story than political drama
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Movie review: Peter Farrelly's 'Green Book' charms as tale of unlikely friendship
Nov 15, 2018 12:32 PM - Peter Farrelly's funny, heart-warming fact-based "Green Book" features great performances from Viggo Mortensen as a doltish bouncer and Mahershala Ali as a renowned black pianist traveling together across the Deep South in 1962. -
Movie review: A commanding turn from Viola Davis in 'Widows'
Nov 15, 2018 12:31 PM - As the wife of a Chicago gangster gunned down in a robbery gone bad, Viola Davis commands every moment of Steve McQueen's "Widows," a B-movie thriller with an all-star cast and a dusting of art house cred. -
Movie review: 'Instant Family' marries laughs, tears before devolving into crass comedy
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In 'Boy Erased,' Joel Edgerton wanted to look at the people behind the parents
Nov 13, 2018 6:00 AM - Joel Edgerton already knows who's going to see "Boy Erased." Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by Garrard Conley, the movie details a gay teen's time at a "conversion therapy" camp. -
Widescreen: For many fans, Marvel mastermind Stan Lee was a hero, too
Nov 12, 2018 5:07 PM - When Stan Lee died Monday at age 95, Marvel Comics lost its ambassador to the world, an exuberant, kindly voice of heroism both real and imaginary.
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'Dr. Seuss' The Grinch' makes off with $66M at box office
Nov 12, 2018 6:19 AM - You're a mean one - and you're number one - Mr. Grinch. "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch" made off with $66 million for Universal Pictures to top the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Movie review: 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel enchants, but conjures too many plot strands
Nov 15, 2018 12:35 PM - Eddie Redmayne returns as Newt Scamander in "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," an often dazzling Harry Potter prequel that proves to be a mixed bag of wonders.
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