Movies
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'Darkest Hour' a victory for Gary Oldman's crusty Winston ChurchillDec 06, 2017 10:00 am - “Darkest Hour” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Gary Oldman's transformative portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's historical drama “Darkest Hour” achieves the same rarefied orbit as ...
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Paragon Arlington Heights showing free movies for food donationDec 05, 2017 12:00 am - To solicit food donations for the Wheeling Township Food Pantry, Paragon Arlington Heights movie theater is staging “Movie with the Mayor" Saturday, Dec. 9. Admission is...
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Box office top 20: 'Coco,' 'Justice League' stay on top
Dec 04, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - With no major new releases hitting theaters, Pixar's acclaimed "Coco" again topped the North American box office with $27.5 million in its second week of...
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Daniel Day-Lewis thought about quitting acting before, but 'Phantom Thread' made him do itDec 04, 2017 5:00 am - Daniel Day-Lewis has played a few monsters during his illustrious career. Daniel Plainview from "There Will Be Blood" isn't someone you'd want to spend much time with - ...
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'Coco' tops box office for second straight week with $26.1M
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Tommy Wiseau wants to be taken seriously; James Franco can relateDec 01, 2017 5:00 am - This is a story about dreamers. Two decades ago, three aspiring actors moved from the Bay Area to Hollywood. Their names were Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero and James Franco...
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Arcada to show Charlie Chaplin silent filmNov 30, 2017 10:00 pm - The Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St. in St. Charles, is continuing its "Silent Film Night" series with a classic by Charlie Chaplin Tuesday, Dec. 5. The early 1914 comed...
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How James Franco made a good movie about a bafflingly awful oneNov 30, 2017 5:00 am - There are bad movies, and then there is “The Room,” a spectacularly bizarre independent drama from 2003 starring, written, financed and directed by Tommy Wiseau, a uniqu...
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'Disaster Artist' plays prequel to so-bad-it's-good 'The Room'Nov 30, 2017 5:00 am - “The Disaster Artist” - ★ ★ ½ Who is Tommy Wiseau? It's a question that has long befuddled and endlessly amused fans of “The Room,” the infamously bad 2003 movie Wiseau...
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Local author looks at Red Scare moviesNov 30, 2017 5:00 am - In 2014, longtime Arlington Heights resident David J. Hogan wrote "The Wizard of Oz FAQ," an exhaustively researched look at the classic movie that has spawned inferior ...