Movies
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Box office top 20: 'Boss Baby' takes down Disney's 'Beauty'
Apr 03, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - It took Alec Baldwin in diapers to bring down "Beauty and the Beast." The 20th Century Fox release and DreamWorks Animation production "The Boss Baby," f...
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'Dark Knight' composer Hans Zimmer to play Allstate Arena in AugustApr 03, 2017 1:00 am - Prolific film composer Hans Zimmer, famous for music from "Gladiator," "The Dark Knight" and "Man of Steel," will bring his first North American Tour to Rosemont this su...
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16th annual LunaFest returns to St. Charles April 25Apr 02, 2017 11:00 pm - LunaFest, the fundraising film festival dedicated to promoting awareness about women's issues, highlighting women filmmakers, and bringing women together in their commun...
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'Boss Baby' dethrones 'Beauty and the Beast' with $49M debut
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'Ghost in the Shell' feels like a relic of filmmaking's recent pastApr 01, 2017 7:22 am - In movies, as in life, timing isn't everything. It's the only thing. Consider the strange fate of "Ghost in the Shell," the long-awaited live-action adaptation of the 19...
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13th annual Imago Film Festival exploring faith and hopeMar 30, 2017 11:00 pm - The 13th annual Imago Film Festival April 4-8 will offer an intriguing sampling of independent films that use image and story to explore faith and ethics and the journey...
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'Ghost in the Shell' brings anime classic to lifeMar 30, 2017 12:00 pm - Arriving in theaters a bit bruised by accusations of whitewashing and battered by audience expectations ranging from skeptical to sky high, “Ghost in the Shell” winds up...
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'Case For Christ' brings Arlington Heights' Lee Strobel homeMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - 'Case For Christ' brings Strobel home Writer and lecturer Lee Strobel - former Daily Herald metro editor, Chicago Tribune legal affairs editor and a staff member at Will...
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'Zookeeper's Wife' a fascinating Holocaust tale with impossibly perfect heroineMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - There's not a lot of subtlety in "The Zookeeper's Wife." The good guys are beyond virtuous and the bad ones, pure evil. If that makes it easy to pick sides, it doesn't n...
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Buffalo Grove grad leads cast in Indian immigration dramedyMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - No recent film illustrates the late Roger Ebert's assertion that movies are "empathy machines" better than Rucha Humnabadkar's presciently salient English/Hindi comic dr...