Movies
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'Coco' tops box office for second straight week with $26.1M
Dec 03, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - In a sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend at the box office, Pixar's "Coco" remained the top film for the second straight week while a number of Oscar contenders ...
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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 ...
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Why you should see 'Titanic' on the big screen againNov 29, 2017 5:00 am - Twenty years ago, I was a college freshman at Eastern Illinois University who played "Tekken" on his roommate's PlayStation, convinced his entire floor to watch this bla...
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Denzel Washington talks 'Roman J. Israel,' 'Malcolm X' and 'Shaft'Nov 29, 2017 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Denzel Washington, 62 years old and a seven-time Oscar nominee, is still trying to get better. In Dan Gilroy's “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” Washington has challen...
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Box office top 20: 'Coco' displaces 'Justice League'
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New reclining seats coming to Charlestowne movie theaterNov 26, 2017 10:00 pm - When is the last time you dozed off in a movie theater? Well, it might happen again soon. The holidays mean festive times, but they also mean movie time. Thus, the Class...