Movies
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Movie review: Rupert Everett embodies Oscar Wilde in decline for 'The Happy Prince'Oct 25, 2018 8:00 am - “The Happy Prince” - ★ ★ ½ Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett's account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone w...
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Movie review: Story gets muddled in well-acted 'What They Had'Oct 25, 2018 6:00 am - “What They Had” - ★ ★ ½ “What They Had” begins, appropriately, in a state of confusion. Ruth (Blythe Danner) has wandered from her Chicago apartment into the snowy ...
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Movie review: 'Hunter Killer' blasts through over-the-top action, cliched plotOct 25, 2018 6:00 am - “Hunter Killer” - ★ ★ There are so many good movies in theaters right now - thoughtful, artistic, well-acted films that studios save for this time of year with the dista...
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Movie review: Slapstick bests the bad guys in 'Johnny English Strikes Again'Oct 25, 2018 6:00 am - “Johnny English Strikes Again” - ★ ★ ½ Johnny English, the secret agent of last resort, need not mean the movie of last resort. In “Johnny English Strikes Again,” the ch...
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Movie review: Melissa McCarthy shines as bitter writer in 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'Oct 25, 2018 6:00 am - “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The early 1990s New York of Marielle Heller's “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” isn't so long ago but it already feels staggeringly distant...
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Movie review: Jonah Hill's 'Mid90s' a nostalgic, authentic coming-of-age dramaOct 24, 2018 12:45 pm - “Mid90s” - ★ ★ ★ Jonah Hill's directorial debut “Mid90s” presents a nostalgic, coming-of-age drama about five L.A. skateboarding punks searching for a plot. They never f...
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See Lon Chaney horror film 'The Unknown' Oct. 30Oct 23, 2018 11:00 pm - Get in the mood for Halloween with a screening of the 1927 film "The Unknown," starring Lon Chaney Sr. and Joan Crawford, in one of her earliest starring roles. The fr...
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Geneva church to show documentary 'Almost Sunrise' Oct. 26Oct 21, 2018 11:00 pm - Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, 102 S. Second St., will show the documentary "Almost Sunrise: Hope Is On the Horizon" at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26. Emmy-Nominated...
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'Halloween' scares up $77.5 million in ticket sales
Oct 21, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Forty years after he first appeared in theaters, Michael Myers is still drawing huge audiences for a good scare. Universal Pictures said Sunday that "Hallo...
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Countdown to Halloween: 8 days of spirited funOct 20, 2018 11:00 pm - Halloween is creeping closer - ever closer. So if you haven't taken full advantage of the local fun yet, you'd better get busy. You can head to a pumpkin patch for a G-r...