Movies
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MC22 documentary 'Sarah Reckmeyer: A Life in Music' to screen at 2017 Illinois International Film FestivalMay 14, 2017 11:00 pm - "Sarah Reckmeyer: A Life in Music" has been selected to screen at the 2017 Illinois International Film Festival, which takes place May 20-21 at the Prisco Center in Auro...
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'The Lovers' makes the case for experience over youthMay 14, 2017 7:18 am - To watch "The Lovers" is to be treated to some high-caliber performances by a couple of experienced pros. First, you've got Debra Winger, who's just as effortlessly magn...
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'King Arthur' flops, 'Guardians 2' still rules at box office
May 14, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The first major box office flop of the summer movie season has arrived. Studio estimates on Sunday say director Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Legend of the S...
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Summer movies play it safe with sequels, prequels and remakesMay 14, 2017 7:00 am - Every summer comes with a glut of what Hollywood studios judge to be commercially “safe” projects, including remakes, sequels, prequels, plus features based on TV shows,...
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Theatrical artifice shoots down realism in war drama 'The Wall'May 11, 2017 6:00 am - The Iraqi school-teacher-turned-sniper in Doug Liman's military suspense-thriller “The Wall” hates American soldiers so much, he concocts a cruel and unusual method for ...
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'Legend' a frenetically edited slog through King Arthur's sagaMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - In Guy Ritchie's dark and soulless comic action tale “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” the once-and-future king, played by a stoically self-centered Charlie Hunnam, wi...
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'Citizen Jane' documentary takes on excitement of a thrillerMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - If the powerful 20th-century city planner Robert Moses had gotten his way, Manhattan would now be crisscrossed by major highways. SoHo would have been wiped off the map ...
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'The Lovers' is charming, truthful without being cloyingMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - In "The Lovers," a sly but forgiving sex comedy by Azazel Jacobs, Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a couple trapped in a marriage as drab as the dun-colored walls of th...
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James Bond's fifth film gets 50th anniversary salute in Park RidgeMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - 007 classic celebrates 50 years The 50th anniversary of the last good Sean Connery 007 thriller, "You Only Live Twice," gets a celebration from the Pickwick Theatre Clas...
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Schumer, Hawn battle bad guys and each other in randy 'Snatched'May 10, 2017 11:00 am - Need a movie recommendation for Mother's Day weekend? "Snatched." See? The title is already naughty and funny, and the movie that follows it is even naughtier and funni...