Movies
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Pam Grier dishes dirt on being a female action star, TrumpSep 04, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Even at 68, Pam Grier looks like she can still kick butt. And the looks don't deceive, Grier said. While having never played a superhero, “I'm super in real...
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A slow Labor Day caps a down summer at the box office
Sep 03, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - With no new wide releases, Hollywood basically took the Labor Day weekend off and put an end to what's expected to be the lowest earning summer movie ...
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Dreamlike 'Beach Rats' delves into teen's struggle with identityAug 31, 2017 6:00 am - Is there anything lonelier than a secret? Frankie has a big one — he's attracted to men — and he can't seem to reconcile it with his own life. Writer and director Eliza ...
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Dann Gire revisits 'Close Encounters' 40 years laterAug 31, 2017 6:00 am - 'Close Encounters' with a 40-year-old film Steven Spielberg's “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” came on the cinematic heels of “Star Wars” back in 1977 (when I worked...
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Noomi Rapace proves daring - and deadly - in otherwise formulaic 'Unlocked'Aug 31, 2017 6:00 am - There's been a lot of talk about who should be the next James Bond after Daniel Craig puts aside his shaken martini. Orlando Bloom? Idris Elba? Damian Lewis? After watch...
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Hesitant script weakens wrongful conviction tale 'Crown Heights'Aug 31, 2017 6:00 am - Matt Ruskin's "Crown Heights" takes its name from the Brooklyn neighborhood, but its story is both more pointedly individual and more broadly national than that suggests...
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Classic Cinemas hosts monthly film clubsAug 31, 2017 1:00 am - In response to many requests over the years for more art, foreign, classic or documentary films, Classic Cinemas is hosting monthly film clubs. Visit www.classiccinemas....
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See German Expressionist classic films 'Metropolis' and 'Nosferatu' at Arcada TheatreAug 30, 2017 11:00 pm - The Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St. in St. Charles, continues its "Silent Film Night" series with a screening of the classic German Expressionist sci-fi film "Metropolis...
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'I Do' doesn't: Capable comic cast encumbered by clumsy cuttingAug 30, 2017 11:00 am - “I Do ... Until I Don't” boasts a crackerjack cast of comic actors struggling to spin gold from the straw-dry dialogue of a lackadaisically edited, visually compromised,...
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Glenbard North grad wanted 'big risk,' so he made a movieAug 29, 2017 5:30 am - Michael MacRae used to tell friends at Glenbard North High School, "I'm going to L.A. one day and I'm going to make it in the movies!" Their reactions: Sure, Mike. We'll...