Movies
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Movie review: Thrills lose out to laughs in mystery-comedy mashup 'A Simple Favor'Sep 13, 2018 6:00 am - “A Simple Favor” - ★ ★ ½ Ice cold and finished off with a dramatic twist, “A Simple Favor” has a lot in common with the gin martinis that its lead characters drink...
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Movie review: It's not worth going down to 'The Basement'Sep 13, 2018 6:00 am - "The Basement" - ★ "The Basement" sounds an awful lot like "debasement," and after a blow-torch-wielding maniac approaches a screaming woman wearing a flimsy bra, looks...
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Movie guide: 'A Simple Favor,' 'Predator' opening this weekSep 12, 2018 11:00 pm - Movies in theaters the week of Sept. 14 Ratings guide: Four stars: superior. Three stars: good. Two stars: average. One star: poor. D (drug use), L (language), N (n...
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'The Hate U Give' puts Black Lives Matter on the screenSep 10, 2018 11:00 pm - TORONTO - The short story that begat Angie Thomas' breakthrough young adult novel "The Hate U Give" was inspired by the shooting of Oscar Grant III, the Oakland, Calif.,...
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Box Office Top 20: 'The Nun' conjures up $53.8 million
Sep 10, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The horror pic "The Nun" scared off the competition and dominated the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters, grossing $53.8 milli...
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With 'The Nun,' Warner Bros.' box office streak continues
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Grumpy guests bicker, bond in new rom-com 'Destination Wedding'Sep 07, 2018 6:00 am - Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder reunite on-screen for the third time in "Destination Wedding," the unconventional romantic comedy that accurately captures the beginning of...
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Widescreen: 'Minecraft' convention in Schaumburg, Disney princesses back in theatersSep 07, 2018 6:00 am - Before "Fortnite" took over seemingly every television, tablet and smartphone in America, the phenomenon that spawned books, merch and its own genre of YouTube videos wa...
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7 films that have Dann Gire looking forward to fallSep 07, 2018 6:00 am - Just curious, but does anyone really want to see a sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic “Halloween” in which mad slasher Michael Meyers now qualifies for an AA...
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Movie review: Jennifer Garner exacts bloody revenge in vigilante drama 'Peppermint'Sep 06, 2018 10:00 am - “Peppermint” - ★ ★ The insane revenge movie “Peppermint“ starts to make a lot more sense when you realize that it was directed by the man who brought us “Taken” (P...