Movies
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Lee's 'Lust' takes top prize at Venice festOct 31, 2021 8:26 pm - VENICE, Italy -- Taiwan-born Ang Lee's erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" won the Venice Film Festival's top award Saturday, two years after he captured the same prize ...
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Shallow 'Shoot 'em Up' packs heat and actionOct 31, 2021 8:06 pm - For action junkies who love violent video games and have no need for characters, plots, emotions and originality, the aptly titled "Shoot 'em Up" works like crack on ret...
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'Will' power doesn't generate laughs in lame comedyOct 31, 2021 8:03 pm - What does it feel like to watch Will Forte and Will Arnett mug and cutesy-pooh their way through the comically stillborn movie "The Brothers Solomon"? I'd say it's kinda...
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Ideal cast, taut direction make '3:10' a lean, muscular westernOct 31, 2021 8:02 pm - The American western has experienced more comebacks than Madonna, and James Mangold's return-to-basics horse opera "3:10 to Yuma" proves that it deserves to stay around ...
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'Hatchet' a sick valentine to '80s killer thrillersOct 31, 2021 8:02 pm - • Watching "Hatchet" is like time-warping back to the early '80s when hordes of indie killer thrillers such as "Friday the 13th," "Humongous," "The Burning" and "Madman"...
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Check this out! Our writers pick the best for the weekend.Oct 31, 2021 7:55 pm - The International Microcinema Film Festival, tonight through Sunday at Cutting Hall for the Performing Arts, 150 E. Wood St., Palatine. Admission $5 with an all-fest pac...
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Triple amputee seeking dreams in HollywoodOct 31, 2021 7:53 pm - Bryan Anderson would love to show people what it's like for a wounded soldier to get back to normal life -- but he can't. As he puts it, "I wouldn't call this a normal l...
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Jude Law scuffles with photographerOct 31, 2021 8:00 pm - Photographer, Law scuffle Police arrested Jude Law after he allegedly attacked a photographer outside his London home. The actor, however, denied the allegations on Wedn...
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Movie guideOct 31, 2021 7:54 pm - KEY: Four stars means superior; three stars means good; two stars means average; one star means poor. D for drug use, L for language, N for nudity, S for sexual situatio...
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Comedian's standup gets cut after he uses racial slurOct 31, 2021 7:59 pm - MIAMI -- A standup routine by black comedian Eddie Griffin was stopped after he repeatedly used the N-word, a magazine's spokesman said Wednesday. Griffin, who has appea...