Movies
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After 20 years, M. Night Shyamalan hasn't given up on twistsJan 17, 2019 10:00 pm - In “The Sixth Sense,” just before uttering the now-famous “I see dead people” line, young Cole (Haley Joel Osment) interrupts a badly improvised story by Bruce Willis' D...
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Movie guide: 'Glass,' 'Cold War' & more open in theaters Jan. 18Jan 17, 2019 7:00 am - Four stars: superior. Three stars: good. Two stars: average. One star: poor. D (drug use), L (language), N (nudity), S (sexual situations, references), V (violence). Rat...
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Movie review: Excellent, artful 'Cold War' a reflection on love, historyJan 17, 2019 5:00 am - “Cold War” - ★ ★ ★ ★ “Cold War” is a near-perfect film, an artfully crafted, flawlessly acted meditation on love, memory and invented history that's both deeply pe...
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Movie review: M. Night Shyamalan's 'Glass' fails to live up to provocative premiseJan 15, 2019 10:00 pm - “Glass” - ★ ★ The best part of M. Night Shyamalan's intermittently tedious, trilogy-topping tale “Glass” has to be its irresistibly provocative premise. Shyamalan merges...
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'Roma' tops Critics' Choice Awards; a tie for Lady Gaga and Glenn Close
Jan 14, 2019 6:00 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. - "Roma" is the top winner at the Critics' Choice Awards, winning best picture, foreign language film and a pair of individual honors for director A...
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Kevin Hart's 'The Upside' unseats 'Aquaman' in $19.6M debut
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Netflix's 'Sex Education' is a trans-Atlantic love letterJan 12, 2019 6:28 am - NEW YORK - Among the bumper crop of original series debuting this month on Netflix is one that's both a time warp and a trans-Atlantic hug. It's called "Sex Education" a...
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Constable: American Girl model from Arlington Heights morphs into Power RangerJan 12, 2019 12:00 am - Facing numerous possibilities for life after high school, Jacqueline Scislowski of Arlington Heights was sure of one thing. “I was going to get yellow for my dorm room. ...
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Widescreen: Three comeback stories to inspire sad Bears fansJan 11, 2019 5:00 am - Even though we all saw it happen for real last Sunday, Cody Parkey's blocked, double-doinked field goal in the closing moments of the Bears-Eagles NFC Wild Card playoff ...
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College of DuPage's annual Global Flicks film fest kicks off Feb. 6Jan 11, 2019 12:00 am - "Global Flicks," a festival of seven award-winning international films, will be presented on Wednesdays, Feb. 6 to March 20, in the Playhouse Theatre of the McAninch Art...