Movies
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Shark tale 'Meg' a formula but appealing creature featureAug 09, 2018 6:00 am - "The Meg" - ★ ★ ½ It takes nearly an hour before the titular, prehistoric giant shark comes into the sea-foam limelight. Then, "The Meg" makes up for lost time by ringi...
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Elgin Short Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary Sept. 22Aug 07, 2018 11:00 pm - The Elgin Short Film Festival is returning for its 10th year! This special anniversary event is taking place on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Sy...
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30 years ago, a Daily Herald sports writer vanished on a mountain. Last weekend, his son climbed it.Aug 07, 2018 5:00 am - Thirty years ago today, Daily Herald sports writer Keith Reinhard vanished without a trace. Reinhard told folks in the tiny Colorado town where he was taking a sabbatica...
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See Indiana Jones ... at the cemetery?Aug 07, 2018 1:00 am - Memory Gardens Cemetery in Arlington Heights is hosting an outdoor movie viewing of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Saturday evening. Officials at the cemetery, 2501 E. Euclid...
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Box-office top 20: 'Fallout' cruises past Winnie-the-Pooh
Aug 06, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Winnie-the-Pooh and "Christopher Robin" couldn't catch up to Tom Cruise and "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" at the box office, as Cruise's sixth, stunt-f...
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Redford reaffirms 2016 claim: One more film and he's done actingAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - Robert Redford told Entertainment Weekly he is indeed retiring from acting after he finishes his new film "The Old Man & The Gun." The 81-year-old actor said he is makin...
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Q&A: McQuarrie talks action, Cruise, 'Mission: Impossible'Aug 05, 2018 7:26 am - LOS ANGELES - In previous "Mission: Impossible" movies, action often came first, and story second. It's almost ironic then that when writer-director Christopher McQuarri...
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'Mission: Impossible' bests Winnie-the-Pooh at box office
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'Coco' coming to Palatine outdoor family movie nightAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - The Palatine Park District's free annual outdoor movie night on Thursday, Aug. 9, will feature the Disney Pixar hit "Coco." It will be shown at Fred P. Hall Amphitheater...
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The original 'Hamilton' stars aren't throwing away their shotsAug 04, 2018 7:29 am - Being an original cast member of "Hamilton" is the Broadway break of a lifetime. The cultural impact of the genre-busting hip-hop smash has given the originals cache and...