Movies
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Loathe thy neighborSep 17, 2008 11:00 pm - The racially charged "Lakeview Terrace" should be exactly the kind of gritty suburban thriller tailor-made for the abrasive sensibilities of director/writer Neil LaBute....
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John Hughes flicks bring us back to high schoolSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - "High School Flashback Collection" - Has a filmmaker ever connected with a particular age group as strongly as John Hughes did with the teens of the 1980s? I doubt it. ...
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Prickly characters, crassness mar 'The Women'Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - At a pivotal point in Diane English's "The Women," Mary Haines says to her best friend Sylvia Fowler, "You act as if this is some 1930s movie!" The joke is, of course, t...
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On screen this weekendSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Free "Grease"! To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Classic Cinemas will show the original 1978 musical "Grease" at all its Chicagoland theaters for free! If you ask me, t...
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'Righteous' kills interest in cop serial killer thrillerSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - "Righteous Kill" works soooooooo hard to convince us that a certain character has been administering vigilante justice on the local scumbag population that you begin to ...
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New on DVDSep 10, 2008 11:00 pm - "Baby Mama" Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has worked hard for the Philadelphia grocery chain run by Barry (Steve Martin). He decides to make her a vice president, but Kate wa...
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'Burn After Reading' a hit-and-mostly-miss movieSep 10, 2008 11:00 pm - "Burn After Reading" is the kind of patchy, breezy black comedy the Coen brothers could knock off in their sleep. They probably did. After mounting last year's highly i...
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'Potter' delay brings out worst in fansSep 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Jean Fink, a 51-year-old Los Angeles artist who also works as an administrative assistant, was so distraught after a night of fitful sleep that she dashed off a scathing...
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The Dude abides in great new 'Lebowski' releaseSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Big Lebowski" (10th Anniversary Edition): "The Big Lebowski" is one of the best comedies ever made. There, I said it. Yes, the movie baffled critics and audienc...
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NY lawsuit claims 'Disturbia' copied short story
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A lawsuit claims Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures Corp. ripped off "Rear Window" when they made the movie "Disturbia." The 2007 thriller "...