Movies
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'It' stomps 'Mother' with $60M in its second week
Sep 17, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The Stephen King adaption "It" continues to scare up record ticket sales, taking in an estimated $60 million in its second week and leaving a paltry $7.5 mill...
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Michelle Pfeiffer takes 'leap of faith' to star in 'mother!'Sep 16, 2017 6:00 am - When Michelle Pfeiffer first read Darren Aronofsky's script for “mother!” she had an understandable initial reaction. “I thought: What ... is this?” recalls Pfeiffer. Ar...
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Brutal 'American Assassin' kickstarts new action heroSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - Mitch Rapp is an action hero in the vein of Jack Ryan or John McClane: an impossibly tough and determined everyday guy out to save the world. Dylan O'Brien brings a yout...
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'Rebel in the Rye' a cliched portrait of novelist J.D. SalingerSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - It is ironic that films about trailblazing artists are so often filled with cliches. Reclusive author J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) famously forbade anyone from adapting his...
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'The Villainess' ramps up violence in so-so spy thrillerSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - “The Villainess” has some of the most audacious action sequences of the year. Between them is sandwiched a melodrama that jumps across time, with multiple betrayals alon...
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5 weird and creepy movie clowns with the 'IT' factorSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - Now that Bill Skarsgård's sinister demon clown Pennywise has made the horror film "IT" an instant box office smash ($123 million during its opening weekend), it's time f...
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Aronofsky's 'mother!' takes star Jennifer Lawrence on savage, surreal tripSep 13, 2017 1:30 pm - Normally, I avoid watching trailers and reading production notes prior to viewing a movie, but my curiosity won out on “mother!” especially after a Paramount Pictures fi...
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Marcus Theatres celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with film seriesSep 12, 2017 11:00 pm - Marcus Theatres, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE:MCS), has announced it will celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct, 15, by showing a variet...
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Jail Brakers to host 'The If Project' film screening, discussionSep 12, 2017 11:00 pm - Jail Brakers, which serves families of incarcerated individuals, will present a free screening of the award-winning documentary "The If Project" from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tues...
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Geneva church to show 'This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness'Sep 11, 2017 11:00 pm - At 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, 102 S. Second St., will show "This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness." Today, more than 2.4 mi...