Movies
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'Ant-Man and the Wasp' director likes life as Marvel's humble superhero comedyJul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - Thirty-five films throughout cinema's history have grossed more than a billion dollars, including two Marvel movies this year. But none has ever been a live-action comed...
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Hollywood history shows Thai cave rescue movie was inevitableJul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - The jokes, groans and eye-rolls started on Twitter even before the announcement - replete with tongue-in-cheek casting predictions. "How soon is too soon to start boycot...
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The good-ness of 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'Jul 12, 2018 11:00 pm - The reviews are correct. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the new documentary about pioneering children's host Fred Rogers, is very good. Technically good, but also capital-...
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Rob Reiner's newspaper drama 'Shock and Awe' fails to live up to its nameJul 12, 2018 6:00 am - “Shock and Awe”- ★ ½ In “Shock and Awe,” Woody Harrelson and James Marsden play Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who during the run-up to the Iraq War in 2002 and 200...
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'Eating Animals' a disturbing journey into world of factory farming, slaughterhousesJul 12, 2018 6:00 am - “Eating Animals” - ★ ★ ★ There are many disturbing phrases bandied about in “Eating Animals,” the Natalie Portman-narrated documentary about the morality of meat-e...
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Dwayne Johnson scales crazy challenges in action-packed 'Skyscraper'Jul 11, 2018 11:00 am - “Skyscraper” - ★ ★ ½ In the ludicrously trippy disaster movie “Skyscraper,” Dwayne Johnson's ex-cop family man Will Sawyer climbs up about 100 stories to reach a Hong K...
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5 things to do for $5 (or less) this week in the suburbsJul 10, 2018 6:00 am - Rinks revisited Learn about 20th-century skating crazes in the new exhibit "Chicago Rink Rats: The Golden Age of Roller Skating" at the Elmhurst History Museum, 120 E. P...
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Box office top 20: 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' stings with $75.8M
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Marvel Studios landed its 20th straight no. 1 box-office debut with an uncharacteristically small superhero for the swaggering comic-book juggernaut. "An...
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'Ant-Man' sequel brings female characters to the forefrontJul 09, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The "Ant-Man" sequel may be about tiny superheroes, but the film is making a big statement about female empowerment by featuring Evangeline Lilly's The Was...
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Actor Tab Hunter, star of 'Damn Yankees!' movie, dies age 86
Jul 09, 2018 1:00 am - Tab Hunter, the blond actor and singer who was a heartthrob for millions of teenagers in the 1950s with such films as "Battle Cry" and "Damn Yankees!" and received new a...