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Local 'Twilight' fan wins Volvo

Daily Herald Staff Report
Dec 04, 2009 10:00 pm - A Palatine teenager was one of two winners nationwide to win a Volvo XC60 in a promotion for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Beth Gleason, 18, and a 19-year-old from Geor...
Taut, realistic 'Brothers' explores real cost of war

By Dann Gire
Dec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - There's not a single false emotional note in Jim Sheridan's lean and spare war drama "Brothers." The performances of the entire cast - especially Tobey Maguire and the g...
De Niro more than 'Fine' in family drama

By Dann Gire
Dec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - To its credit, Kirk Jones' estranged family-in-crisis drama "Everybody's Fine" refuses to pull out the pliers to yank tears from our ducts. But it thinks about it - real...
New on DVD: 'SNL' season five

By Jeff Tuckman
Dec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - "Saturday Night Live: Season Five" The fifth season ran from October 1979 to May 1980, and the DVD set includes 20 episodes with terrific guest hosts, many funny sketche...
'Up in the Air' soars among the year's best

By Dann Gire
Dec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - The moment you meet Ryan Bingham, you just know it: He's the master of his universe. Bingham flies around the country and fires all the employees that company bosses don...
NBR names 'Up in the Air' best film of the year

Associated Press
Dec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- "Up In the Air" is the National Board of Review's pick for best film of the year. Jason Reitman's film stars George Clooney as a perpetually jet-lagged contr...
New 'toon continues Disney trend toward diversity

Associated Press
Dec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- For most of the last millennium, the Disney 'toon heroine was as white as, well... Snow White, the studio's first feature-film superstar, who marked her d...
Tony Curtis writes about 'Some Like it Hot;' Strip' no 'Office' clone

By Dann Gire
Dec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Tony likes it 'Hot'! Hollywood icon, heartthrob and Oscar nominee Tony Curtis has written a book about the making of his 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot." (It's ap...
'New Moon' keeps top box office spot with $42.5 million weekend

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Vampires and werewolves continued to howl at the box office with a $42.5 million weekend for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Summit Entertainment's "Twilig...
No signs of intelligent life on animated 'Planet 51'

By David Germain Associated Press
Nov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It's been a big year for animation, with a great variety of styles represented by "Up," "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Princess and the Frog." The b...

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