Movies
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Filmmaker claims violent action film 'Free Fire' is 'a study in empathy'Apr 27, 2017 6:00 am - I caught up with British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, director/co-writer of the new action black comedy “Free Fire,” by phone as he was being driven to an airport. His movie,...
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Filmmakers hush-hush on movie to be shot at Barrington Flower ShopApr 27, 2017 1:00 am - Mum's the word on a film being shot in the Barrington Flower Shop over the next few days. Owner Glen Egeland said a producer with hometown connections scouted the locat...
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'The Devil's Candy' visually lush, but short on scriptApr 26, 2017 11:00 am - With long tresses and a wiry beard, Ethan Embry's heavy-metal-loving painter Jesse Hellman resembles a blue-eyed Jesus Christ. But his last name hints at something else....
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Boom mic operator from Elk Grove wants work to be heard, not seenApr 25, 2017 5:30 am - Elk Grove Village native Eric Anthony wanted to be a film director when he was studying at Chicago's Columbia College. That all changed when a classmate asked him to "bo...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Fast 8' races to No. 1 again
Apr 24, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "The Fate of the Furious" topped the box office for the second week in a row with $38.4 million, bringing the total North American take for the film t...
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L.A.'s violent uprising of 1992 returns to TV 25 years laterApr 24, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Toward the end of "L.A. Burning," a new documentary about the fiery and deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots, a man who lived through the turmoil issues an ominou...
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Documentary screening on opioid addiction draws emotional crowdApr 24, 2017 1:00 am -
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'Tramps,' new on Netflix, is a rom-com caper with knockabout charmApr 23, 2017 7:20 am - The writer-director Adam Leon made an impressive debut in 2012 with "Gimme the Loot," an antic New York comedy about graffiti artists out for revenge. Leon delivers on t...
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'The Fate of the Furious' laps new films at box office
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Fewer indie films are opening in theaters, and filmmakers are fine with thatApr 21, 2017 4:10 pm - Show of hands: Who's planning to see this weekend's big movie? That was a trick question. Because with screens getting smaller, choices getting wider and audiences getti...