Movies
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Period drama 'My Cousin Rachel' simmers when it should boilJun 08, 2017 6:00 am - "My Cousin Rachel" swirls around a deliciously twisty premise: On a sprawling Cornwall estate in the 19th century, a young heir-to-be, Philip Ashley, discovers that his ...
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'It Comes at Night' takes less is more approach to horrorJun 08, 2017 6:00 am - Effective but slightly misleading trailers make Trey Edward Shults' tight, visceral psychological dramatic thriller "It Comes at Night" look scarier than "Night of the L...
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'Megan Leavey' a touching story about a Marine and her dogJun 08, 2017 6:00 am - "Megan Leavey" tells the commercially apolitical, fact-based story of a lost soul, a young woman who pulls up from a self-destructive spiral and, through luck or fate, f...
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Palatine American Legion hosting outdoor movie nightsJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - Palatine's American Legion post is looking to Hollywood to bring in additional business this summer. American Legion Post 690 at 122 W. Palatine Road will host three out...
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Kids Dream Summer Film Series comes to Marcus TheatreJun 07, 2017 11:00 pm - Marcus Theatres and Marcus Wehrenberg Theatres will kick off the Kids Dream Summer Film Series, presented by American Family Insurance. Between June 11 and Aug. 16, mov...
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'Mummy' reboot goes for laughs and action over horrorJun 07, 2017 12:45 pm - Forget the atmospheric horror of Universal Pictures' 1932 original “The Mummy” starring the skeletal Boris Karloff. Alex Kurtzman's “Dark Universe” series reboot of the ...
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'Wonder Woman' gross revised up to $103.1 million
Jun 05, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "Wonder Woman" was even mightier than expected. Warner Bros. has revised the film's weekend estimate up to $103.1 million. The studio on Monday said the ...
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'Wonder Woman' is a hit that even Hollywood can't ignore
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How Hollywood is giving its biggest stars digital faceliftsJun 05, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Johnny Depp is 53 years old, but he doesn't look a day over 26 in the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie - at least for a few moments. There was no plast...
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How 'Wonder Woman' slyly comments on the politics of HollywoodJun 05, 2017 6:00 am - For all the wide, high-octane spectacle in the new "Wonder Woman," perhaps the film's most special effect involves one central trick: turning the tables on viewer expect...