Movies
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Chicago movie happenings this weekendJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Meet the real 'Parents' Chicago filmmaker Greg Glienna will present a rare showing of his original 1992 comedy "Meet the Parents" before it became a 2000 studio film sta...
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Flawed 'Mamma Mia' still funJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - As a movie musical, "Mamma Mia!" is a mess. But a most amusing mess. It features Hollywood icon Meryl Streep bouncing around the Greek islands like a giddy teenager, eff...
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New DVD releasesJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Bank Job" This well-written crime thriller takes us through various stages of a heist. Terry Leather (Jason Statham) is recruited by Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) ...
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Monkey business grounds silly 'Space Chimps'Jul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Kids might appreciate this movie on some level, but adults who wander in might feel that they've fallen into feature cartoon hell. In animation that looks as if it were ...
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Chicago stands in for Gotham in 'Dark Knight'Jul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - It took six weeks of careful calculations before stunt coordinator Chris Corbould thought he could safely flip a 40-foot 18-wheeler on its back. He tested the calculatio...
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Does Heath Ledger's Joker measure up to Hollywood's greatest villains?Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Could Heath Ledger win a posthumous Academy Award for playing the Caped Crusader's most celebrated villain, the Joker, in the new movie "The Dark Knight"? Sure he could....
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"Dark Knight" video reviewJul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - #unit300 {display:none;} .storyVideo {border:1px solid #efefef;padding:8px 0 0 24px;} ...
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It is a dark and stormy 'Knight'Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Everything you've heard about "The Dark Knight" is true. A visionary motion picture that torches the rule book on superhero movies and redefines the genre, Christopher N...
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Hospital where 'Cuckoo's Nest' was filmed to be torn down
Jul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SALEM, Ore. -- So long, Cuckoo's Nest. Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, is making way for...
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'Ruins' delivers by-the-numbers scares on DVDJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Ruins" (unrated edition): Foreign tourist spots have replaced isolated summer camps as the go-to setting for horror flicks. The latest example of this is "The R...