Movies
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'Halloween': 40 years ago, Laurie Strode got inside my head
Oct 20, 2018 7:27 AM - I loved Laurie Strode at first sight. Or, more accurately, I knew her: The 17-year-old high school student portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis in the 1978 horror classic "Halloween" ineffably chimed with my own contradictory selfhood as an adolescent girl coming of age in a perpetually autumnal Midwest. This is how she got into my head. -
Constable: How a Rolling Meadows man helped create Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit
Oct 20, 2018 8:35 AM - Told he would be working with a company best know for making bras, Bob Davidson of Rolling Meadows ended up helping create the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore to the moon.
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Movie guide: 'Halloween,' 'Beautiful Boy,' 'The Oath' opening this weekend
Oct 19, 2018 11:24 AM - In the mood to go see a movie this weekend? Check out our weekly movie guide for the week of Friday, Oct. 19, for links to reviews, ratings and new releases. -
Widescreen: Historical 'Halloween' podcast a must-listen for all film fans
Oct 19, 2018 6:00 AM - Amy Nicholson and Bill Simmons present "Halloween Unmasked," an eight-episode podcast that serves as an oral history of the Jamie Lee Curtis classic.
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Movie review: Ike Barinholtz's 'The Oath' may cut too close -- even for liberals
Oct 19, 2018 10:36 AM - Ike Barinholtz's blistering political satire "The Oath" imagines a dystopian near-future in which civilians have been enjoined to publicly declare their loyalty to a thin-skinned, despotic president. -
Movie review: Timothee Chalamet gives powerful performance in flawed 'Beautiful Boy'
Oct 19, 2018 10:36 AM - Timothee Chalamet's profound performance helps elevate the fact-based melodrama "Beautiful Boy," a harrowing yet frustrating tale of how a child of privilege and promise became hostage to drugs. -
Movie review: Death-defying action, irrational risks hallmarks of award-winning 'Free Solo'
Oct 19, 2018 10:36 AM - The often breathtaking adventure documentary "Free Solo" chronicles the exploits of champion climber Alex Honnold, who sets out to be the first person ever to solo climb El Capitan -- and without a harness. -
Movie review: Suspense-challenged 'Halloween' horror sequel no match for the original
Oct 19, 2018 10:35 AM - Forty years after John Carpenter's horror tale "Halloween" scared audiences in 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprise their iconic characters in a climactic showdown.
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College of DuPage symposium to focus on Native Americans Oct. 22-26
Oct 17, 2018 4:34 PM - On Oct. 22-26, the College of DuPage's Native American Studies Committee will host "Native Voices," a symposium focusing on the communication of traditions, beauty and diversity of Native Americans, on the college's Glen Ellyn campus. -
'First Man' blasts off behind 'Venom,' 'A Star Is Born'
Oct 14, 2018 1:31 PM - The Neil Armstrong film "First Man" has landed in third place at the North American box office, behind last weekend's champs "Venom" and "A Star Is Born." Studio estimates on Sunday say that the Ryan Gosling-starrer brought in $16.5 million.
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