Movies
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Box office top 20: The Apes unseat Spider-Man
Jul 17, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "War for the Planet of the Apes" overtook "Spider-Man: Homecoming" at the box office. But it failed to live up to its predecessor. The third installment ...
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Christopher Nolan builds on expertise at suspense with war epic 'Dunkirk'Jul 17, 2017 6:00 am - A Comfort Suites near an outlet mall 45 minutes outside Washington is not where you'd expect to find Christopher Nolan, the British director whose movies have grossed bi...
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Dann Gire recalls talking zombies with filmmaker George RomeroJul 16, 2017 11:00 pm - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com Horror pioneer George Romero created the modern zombie movie with his 1968 renegade black-and-white classic "Night of the ...
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'War for the Planet of the Apes' roars past 'Spider-Man'
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Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau dies at 89Jul 16, 2017 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible," then capped a long and...
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George A. Romero, father of the zombie film, dead at 77Jul 16, 2017 1:00 am - NEW YORK - George Romero, whose classic "Night of the Living Dead" and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring u...
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Bad habits run amok in convent-set farce 'Little Hours'Jul 14, 2017 6:00 am - Give writer-director Jeff Baena credit: Even when he aims high, that doesn't stop him from going deliciously low. With “The Little Hours,” Baena takes his inspiration fr...
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Church program warns of college sex assault riskJul 14, 2017 1:00 am - A group fighting domestic violence will sponsor three upcoming presentations of the award-winning documentary movie "The Hunting Ground," which exposes a culture of deni...
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No ancient Chinese secret here: 'Wish Upon' is contrived and sillyJul 13, 2017 11:00 am - The most innovative component of the contrived and silly teenage horror movie "Wish Upon" turns out to be the insults high school girls hurl at each other. My favorite: ...
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Dad makes 'Ghost Story' filmmaker not afraid of no ghostsJul 13, 2017 6:00 am - Milwaukee-born filmmaker David Lowery's "A Ghost Story" locally premiered at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in May. It opens this weekend at Chicago's River East 21 a...