Movies
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Movie review: 'Bookshop' is a good excuse to watch three great actorsAug 30, 2018 6:00 am - “The Bookshop” - ★ ★ ★ Based on a 1978 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, “The Bookshop” tells the quiet, unhurried and gently bittersweet tale of a widow (Emily Mortimer) w...
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Movie review: John Cho looks for his missing daughter in smart 'Searching'Aug 30, 2018 6:00 am - "Searching" - ★ ★ ★ I predict that theaters being used as giant computer screens with rapid-fire "dialogue" boxes that spit out perfectly spelled words will become as c...
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Watch a film on 'The Singing Revolution,' learn about Estonian history Sept. 5Aug 28, 2018 11:00 pm - On Wednesday, Sept. 5, the Wheaton Center for Faith, Politics and Economics will host a screening of the film "The Singing Revolution" and a lecture by Mari-Ann Kelam ti...
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Movie review: Ben Kingsley gives chilling performance in disappointing 'Operation Finale'Aug 27, 2018 11:00 pm - “Operation Finale” — ★ ★ ½ Talk about the banality of evil. Chris Weitz's fact-based, post-World War II wannabe thriller “Operation Finale” exemplifies the banality...
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Box office top 20: 'Crazy Rich Asians' scores again
Aug 27, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - It's official: "Crazy Rich Asians" is a box-office sensation. The adaptation of Kevin Kwan's bestselling novel, starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, ...
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With minuscule drop, 'Crazy Rich Asians' is No. 1 again
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New versions of Hercule Poirot keep coming, and that's a good thingAug 25, 2018 7:28 am - Long before I saw the recent Hollywood version of "Murder on the Orient Express," I was aware of the controversy surrounding Hercule Poirot's mustache. First, there was ...
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Glenn Close, Christian Slater, stars of 'The Wife,' talk why someone would choose to be invisibleAug 25, 2018 7:27 am - Early in "The Wife," celebrated author Joe Castleman gets the call telling him he's won the Nobel Prize in literature and he begins jumping on the bed. "I won the Nobel!...
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Costumes, caricatures and bookmarks: Comic Con in Rosemont a 'creative stage' for pop culture funAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - There is a "creative stage" at Wizard World Comic Con in Rosemont, but it's a misnomer. Really the entire four-day-long convention of artists, actors, gamers, writers, e...
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'Perfect Bid' is a perfectly entertaining documentary about 'The Price is Right'Aug 24, 2018 6:00 am - In 2008, a contestant on CBS' “The Price is Right” blurted out a very strange, very precise bid for his grand-prize Showcase haul that included a trailer: $23,743. In th...