Movies
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'Fifth Element' back on the big screen for its 20th anniversaryMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - May 9, 1997: I was working for Suncoast Motion Picture Company at Mount Prospect's previous, dearly departed incarnation of Randhurst. Those were the days of the Picnic ...
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Film Stripped Productions announces premiere of McHenry County short filmMay 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Film Stripped Productions will host the premiere of "Upstaged," a workplace comedy shot entirely on location in McHenry County, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, at the Cl...
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Geneva church to show 'Lakota People: American Disgrace'May 08, 2017 11:00 pm - On Friday, May 26, Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva invites you to view "Lakota People: American Disgrace" and two additional short documentaries, and examine th...
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Box office top 20: 'Guardians' launches summer season
May 08, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - James Gunn's comic, cosmic Marvel sequel "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" kicked off the summer movie season with a $146.5 million debut in North America...
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Actors, directors fete 5 years of Chicago Critics Film FestMay 08, 2017 6:00 am - Five years! My, how quickly time folds in on itself! I can't believe the Chicago Critics Film Festival will be turning 5 on Friday, May 12, when it opens for a week's ru...
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Q&A: Michael Mann on the restored 'Heat,' 22 years laterMay 08, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - "This crew is good," declares Al Pacino's Los Angeles detective Vincent Hanna in Michael Mann's sprawling noir saga "Heat." Hanna is speaking of Neil McCauley...
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How 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' reflects its director's painful childhoodMay 07, 2017 7:17 am - If there is a single biggest difference between Marvel's rock-star "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise filmmaker James Gunn and the DC universe's visual stylist Zack Sny...
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'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' blasts off with $145M debut
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Kaitlin Olson, Carla Jimenez helped make 'The Mick' the year's funniest new showMay 06, 2017 7:15 am - In January, I expressed hope that the cast of FOX's raunchy new sitcom, “The Mick,” could craft characters that win us over even when the show's more extreme gags tu...
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'Guardians' sequel blasts off to $17M on opening night