Movies
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'The Hate U Give' star Amandla Stenberg wants to be your 'problematic fave'Oct 11, 2018 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On a recent visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, actress Amandla Stenberg made a beeline for “Watching Oprah,” an exhibit d...
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Movie review: 'The Hate U Give' offers powerful look at Black Lives Matter movementOct 11, 2018 6:00 am - “The Hate U Give” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Like hurricane winds, the vortex of psychological forces buffeting the calm-eyed 16-year-old at the center of “The Hate U Give,” played...
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Movie review: 'Bad Times at the El Royale' a slow-burn thriller with none of the payoffOct 11, 2018 6:00 am - “Bad Times at the El Royale” - ★ ★ Drew Goddard, the screenwriter-turned-director whose feature debut was the meta-horror film “A Cabin in the Woods,” has laid another ...
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After Hours Film Society hosts 'amim8' student film fest Oct. 15Oct 10, 2018 11:00 pm - The After Hours Film Society's 2018 anim8 Student Film Festival will begin at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, at the Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highland Ave. in Downers Grove. Admi...
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Movie guide: 'First Man,' 'Bad Times at the El Royale' opening this weekendOct 10, 2018 11:00 pm - Movies in theaters the week of Oct. 12 Four stars: superior. Three stars: good. Two stars: average. One star: poor. D (drug use), L (language), N (nudity), S (sexua...
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Entertaining 'Better Call Saul' season finale a grim reminder that show won't end happilyOct 10, 2018 7:00 pm - As of this week's fourth-season finale of "Better Call Saul," AMC's prequel to "Breaking Bad," Naperville native Bob Odenkirk is credited on 83 episodes of television se...
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Movie review: Ryan Gosling is stellar in Damien Chazelle's tightly coiled space biopic 'First Man'Oct 10, 2018 11:00 am - “First Man” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The sounds of silence make lots of noise in Damien Chazelle's surprising, anti-epic, historical drama “First Man,” a tightly coiled study of the f...
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Movie review: Norwegian massacre '22 July' is brilliantly handledOct 10, 2018 5:00 am - “22 July” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Anders Behring Breivik probably thinks “22 July “ is about him. He's the violent narcissist whose actions are at the heart of the film, but Breivik ...
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Box office top 20: 'Venom,' 'A Star Is Born'
Oct 08, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man" spinoff "Venom" and Bradley Cooper's acclaimed remake "A Star Is Born" fueled the best-ever October weekend at North American...
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Whirlwind year lets Michelle Williams realize her own worthOct 07, 2018 7:26 am - LOS ANGELES - Michelle Williams can't believe it's been less than a year since "the pay stuff." Time has seemingly accelerated since last October when, while shooting th...