Movies
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'Angel Has Fallen' — and so has the Gerard Butler action franchiseAug 22, 2019 6:00 am - “Angel Has Fallen” - ★ There is a certain mindless pleasure in the “Fallen” movies. Watching Gerard Butler muscle his way through increasingly preposterous obstacl...
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Film festival takes spotlight at CantignyAug 21, 2019 11:00 pm - The inaugural Tylerman Film Festival is coming to Wheaton's Cantigny Park and will feature more than 30 films, many promoting social awareness and change. The fest on Su...
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Self-service beer, wine pours coming to Rosemont mallAug 20, 2019 11:00 pm - With a plastic card and touch of a handle, visitors to the Fashion Outlets of Chicago mall in Rosemont soon will be able to pour their own craft beer, wine and cider. Te...
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Wedding-night horror comedy 'Ready or Not' wields laughs and goreAug 20, 2019 12:00 pm - "Ready or Not" - ★ ★ ★ ½ Traditionally, horror films released during late August (the so-called "dog days" of summer cinema) tend to be cheap, stupid and exploitative. T...
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The Land Conservancy of McHenry County, MCC to host screening of new documentary about organic farming pioneerAug 18, 2019 11:00 pm - The Land Conservancy of McHenry County and McHenry County College's Agrarian Learning Center and Sustainability Center will present an inspiring new documentary film, "D...
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See suburban artists at work when Wizard World returns to RosemontAug 18, 2019 7:00 am - Celebrity guests, clever costumes and T-shirt towers have become the signature trappings of entertainment conventions like Wizard World Chicago, which returns Thursday, ...
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Ending a drought for R-rated comedies, 'Good Boys' is No. 1
Aug 18, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The R-rated comedy, left for dead by some Hollywood studios, again reached No.1 at the box office over the weekend thanks to the raunchy coming-of-age tale "G...
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Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola on 'Apocalypse Now' 40 years laterAug 18, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK - If filmmaking is a war, then "Apocalypse Now" was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola's Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly de...
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Constable: Grifters, grafters, govs and Blago leave Lincoln cryingAug 17, 2019 1:00 am - Growing up in Wheaton, filmmaker John Davies says his years working with Illinois institutions from WTTW to Second City gave him an insight into covering corruption and ...
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Satisfying '47 Meters Down' sequel returns to shark-infested watersAug 16, 2019 6:00 am - “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” — ★ ★ ★ At the beginning of “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” a quartet of young women are given some pretty good advice before going out to sea:...