Movies
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New 'Woodstock' director's cut should be added to your collectionJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music - The Director's Cut 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" For those of us who remember the classic concert film, this grea...
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Chastity Bono announces sex change
Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Chastity Bono, the daughter of Cher, is having a sex change to become a man. A spokesman for Bono, born a girl to Cher and Sonny Bono, says he "has made t...
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Nothing antiquated about this 'Gran Torino'Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - "Gran Torino" Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a drama that reminds me a bit of the 1983 White Sox - it wins ugly. Sure, the film is hobbled by some unconvincing ...
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'Imagine That' another dull Eddie Murphy comedyJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Apparently, the screenwriters of "Imagine That" really love the word "good." "I'm good!" says Eddie Murphy. "Evan's good!" says Thomas Haden Church. "You are very good!"...
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Conventional plotting, dull hero derail noisy 'Pelham'Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - For all of its visual bombast, Hollywood action stars and updated screenplay by "L.A. Confidential" writer Brian Helgeland, "The Taking of Pelham 123" remains a passionl...
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Actors ratify 2-year Hollywood movie, TV contract
Jun 09, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Members of the Screen Actors Guild voted overwhelmingly to ratify a two-year contract covering movies and prime-time TV shows made by the major Hollywood...
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'Hangover' takes No. 1 box-office spot over 'Up'
Jun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- It turns out Hollywood's weekend hangover was bigger than expected. The Warner Bros. comedy "The Hangover" drew larger audiences than earlier projected to...
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Outdoor movie screens still in McHenry and West ChicagoJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Looks like the world's first drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs, called it right, way back in the '70s: "The drive-in will never die!" Despite being on the endangered...
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Quietly moving 'O'Horten' at Music BoxJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - A quietly moving story about quietly moving on. Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's art house offering "O'Horten" is less interested in plot than in the moody visuals surro...
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'Hangover' comically blunt but hilariousJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Before we get to "The Hangover," we should ask the first and most important question of comedy: Did you laugh? Yes, I did. And my derriere is still running around the Ri...