Movies
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Box Office Top 20: 'Black Panther' bests 'Tomb Raider'
Mar 19, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The MGM-Warner Bros. reboot "Tomb Raider" couldn't dethrone "Black Panther" at the weekend box office in U.S. and Canada theaters, as Ryan Coogler's supe...
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Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolveMar 19, 2018 6:00 am - In "Tomb Raider," Alicia Vikander channels her inner Indiana Jones, with a dash of Rambo thrown in: affecting just the right number of scrapes and cuts and a no-nonsense...
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'Black Panther' tops box office for 5th straight weekend
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'Love, Simon' breaks ground with a radical ordinarinessMar 17, 2018 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - “Love, Simon” is in many ways an ordinary high school film, one of those glossy, endlessly watchable and entertaining romps made in the vein of all those J...
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Lara Croft is back and she's not here to be ogledMar 17, 2018 7:28 am - You could be forgiven for not immediately recognizing Lara Croft in the latest incarnation of "Tomb Raider," which hit theaters Friday. Gone are the massive breasts, mic...
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Analysis: How white nationalists are trying to co-opt 'Black Panther'
Mar 17, 2018 1:00 am - White nationalists have embraced “Black Panther,” Marvel Comics' blockbuster, to push their argument online that nation-states should be organized by ethnic groups, acco...
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Constable: Dave Carlson's film work as Palatine boy leads to Joe Frank docMar 17, 2018 1:00 am - As a kid in Palatine, Dave Carlson used money from his Daily Herald paper route to finance his 8 mm movies such as "The Palatine Murders," "The Creep" and his Vietnam Wa...
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Widescreen: Who needs a 'Tomb Raider' movie when games are already cinematic marvels?Mar 16, 2018 6:00 am - Another big-screen adaptation of a video game hits theaters this weekend, and the age-old question is rearing its head: Will this finally be the first great video game m...
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Ava DuVernay will direct a 'New Gods' superhero movie - here's what that meansMar 15, 2018 11:00 pm - Darkseid is ... under the direction of Ava DuVernay. The "A Wrinkle in Time" director will reportedly direct the film version of "New Gods," one of DC Comics' most cheri...
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Alicia Vikander's 'Tomb Raider' rises above video game film genreMar 15, 2018 6:00 am - “Tomb Raider” - ★ ★ ½ In “Tomb Raider,” Alicia Vikander takes a lot of beatings. She is punched, thrown against rocks and sent careening through a forest. She is im...