Movies
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'Don't Worry' offers flawed portrait of cartoonist John CallahanJul 19, 2018 6:00 am - “Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot” - ★ ★ ½ Macabre is a word often associated with the late cartoonist John Callahan. He's the man who in his widely published cart...
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Stylish 'Equalizer 2' artificially sweetens tale of vigilante violenceJul 19, 2018 6:00 am - “Equalizer 2” - ★ ★ “There are two kinds of pain,” ex-government assassin Robert McCall says to a Turkish thug he's about to thrash. “One that hurts you, and one that c...
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Frothy 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' offers low-stakes summer funJul 19, 2018 6:00 am - “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” - ★ ★ ★ “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” is a wholly ridiculous movie that I thoroughly enjoyed. It's the kind of film that feels and sounds ...
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'Unfriended: The Dark Web' spins smart, efficient online horror taleJul 18, 2018 10:00 am - "Unfriended: The Dark Web" - ★ ★ ★ The first 25 minutes of "Unfriended: The Dark Web" dutifully roll along like one of those spinning wheels of death on your computer s...
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5 things to do for $5 (or less) this week in the suburbsJul 18, 2018 6:00 am - Streaming symphony The New Philharmonic previews its upcoming season with a free concert featuring guest soprano Mikaela Schneider. The concert will also be stream...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Hotel Transylvania 3' beats 'Skyscraper'
Jul 16, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Family-friendly won out this weekend among North American moviegoers as "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" towered over Dwayne Johnson's action p...
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How 'Akira' rewrote the rules for animeJul 16, 2018 6:00 am - We're protesting in the streets, bracing for the next violent attack and debating how civil to be in confronting a government some say is wildly overreaching. There's a ...
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Lakeith Stanfield: An actor at home in the surrealJul 15, 2018 7:00 am - The weirder it gets, the more Lakeith Stanfield looks right at home. It was Stanfield, as the bodysnatched Andrew Hayworth, personifying the nightmare of Jordan Peele's ...
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'Hotel Transylvania 3' tops charts, 'Skyscraper' stumbles
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Solo 'Black Widow' project catches up to wave of female-led superhero filmsJul 14, 2018 7:27 am - It's been more than a decade since Hollywood tried to find success with two especially high-profile, female-led superhero movies: Halle Berry's "Catwoman" and Jennifer G...