Movies
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Why Nicole Kidman belongs in the pantheon of great actressesApr 08, 2017 7:18 am - Nicole Kidman. The name conjures many images and associations: the tumble of red curls and pert, blue-eyed face of the star as a young newcomer to the screen; the marria...
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Stars make compelling 'Case for Christ' based on life of Arlington Heights nativeApr 07, 2017 4:00 pm - Look in the background of many scenes in Jon Gunn's faith-based drama “The Case for Christ” and you will see a bright, white light streaming in from the windows. It's in...
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Alien Day celebrates the classic film and this summer's prequelApr 07, 2017 6:00 am - If you're bursting with excitement over the May 19 release of "Alien: Covenant," director Ridley Scott's return to the sci-fi/horror franchise he helped launch in 1979, ...
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'Your Name': A romantic, teeny-bopper version of 'Freaky Friday'Apr 07, 2017 6:00 am - Big news in the anime world: The animated Japanese feature “Your Name” has recently overtaken “Spirited Away” as the highest-grossing anime film ever. Whether the new fi...
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Zach Braff directs a breezier, geezier remake of comedy 'Going in Style'Apr 06, 2017 12:00 pm - In Martin Brest's 1979 original “Going in Style,” George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg played senior citizens on welfare who decide to improve their financial stat...
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Sensory-friendly 'Smurfs' screening among upcoming movie eventsApr 06, 2017 6:00 am - 'Smurfs' for special needs audiences The lights go up, the sound goes down, and kids are free to wander around. The Paragon Theater at 53 S. Evergreen Ave., Arlington He...
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'Beast' star Dan Stevens dominates stylish morality tale 'The Ticket'Apr 06, 2017 6:00 am - “Beauty and the Beast” star Dan Stevens (he plays the Beast) supplies Ido Fluk's problematic, but courageously experimental morality play “The Ticket” with one of the ye...
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Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub trade long speeches in failing 'Assignment'Apr 06, 2017 6:00 am - The seamy characters in Walter Hill's cracked-out crazy, low-budget, neo-noiry thriller "The Assignment" don't share conversations. They exchange protracted expository s...
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Werner Herzog's 'Queen of the Desert' proves a royal boreApr 06, 2017 6:00 am - The subject of "Queen of the Desert," writer-director Werner Herzog's first narrative feature since 2009, is Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman who, in the years after World...
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'Smurfs: The Lost Village' takes tots on kitschy, psychedelic tripApr 06, 2017 6:00 am - "Smurfs: The Lost Village," the third theatrical feature centering on tiny blue humanoid forest creatures beloved by small children, has enough bright colors and slapsti...