Movies
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Next deadline in actors dispute: awards season
Nov 19, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES _ The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios plan to hold their first contract talks in four months Thursday and will negotiate this time with the help o...
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Gothic romance blooms in brooding, beguiling 'Twilight'Nov 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Be you a Capulet or a Montague, a Jet or a Shark, a black or a white, a vampire or a mortal, adolescent love across party lines can be a torturous affair, even deadly. T...
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Lake Forest College to honor alum WidmarkNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Lake Forest College pays tribute to one of its best-known alums, the late actor Richard Widmark, with a seven-movie festival highlighting his best work, including his el...
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Batman, 'Twilight', 'Watchmen' stirring up fanboy frenzyNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Do you drool over droids? Love blogging about Batman? Then you probably belong to the group known as fanboys - passionate devotees of genre work in comics, television, f...
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Bond finds 'Solace' to the tune of $70.4 million
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'Hellboy' sequel delivers heavenly visualsNov 13, 2008 10:00 pm - "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (three-disc special edition): "Hellboy II" is a geek's dream, a gloriously imaginative love letter to all things weird and freakish. Im...
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Van Damme pulls off his riskiest stunt: An unflattering art house flickNov 13, 2008 10:00 pm - During the late 1980s, I received a letter from action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme after he read a review in which I praised him for taking his acting skills serious...
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Movie notesNov 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Hail to the screen! Join me and Buffalo Grove's resident film scholar Raymond Benson as Dann and Raymond's Movie Club presents "Hail to the Screen: Presidents and Politi...
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007 fans can't take 'Solace' in implausible, stunt-stuffed sequelNov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - "Quantum of Solace," Daniel Craig's second movie as Secret Agent 007, comes on like a stunt-stuffed exercise in blurry, over-edited action scenes for ADD viewers. Craig'...
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Where does he get all those wonderful clothes?Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Ever wondered how Secret Agent 007 can run down streets, beat up bad guys, fall through windows and still look mighty fine in his snappier-than-snappy suits? Moviemaking...