Movies
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'Thrones' finale Sunday, wrap-up show WednesdayAug 25, 2017 6:00 am - HBO's shortened seventh season of "Game of Thrones" ends at 8 p.m. Sunday with "The Dragon and the Wolf," an 80-minute episode that promises to unite many of the show's ...
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Buffalo Grove author critiques 'Dead End,' Dann remembers real Brinks job robbersAug 24, 2017 6:00 am - Buffalo Grove writer talks 'Dead End Street' Chicago's historic Music Box Theatre caters to all crowds. If you don't believe that, consider its upcoming midnight showing...
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Bautista's surprising performance a highlight of violent 'Bushwick'Aug 24, 2017 6:00 am - It takes 50 minutes into this movie before we finally find out why unidentified military units dressed in black uniforms invade, shoot up and blow up the Brooklyn neighb...
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Witless screenplay, creepy humor distract from colorful animation in 'Leap'Aug 24, 2017 6:00 am - Pixar animated films tend to be intelligent, challenging and educational for children, as opposed to the Weinstein Company's animated Euro-ballerina fantasy "Leap!", whi...
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Superhero love still strong as Wizard World Comic Con Chicago hits RosemontAug 23, 2017 6:00 am - Will superheroes ever go the way of vampires? Way back in the first decade of this century, love-struck vampires ruled the pop-culture roost, thanks in large part to th...
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Jerry Lewis: Would you have me any other way?Aug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Editor's note: The following is a lightly edited reprint of Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire's Oct. 15, 1982, interview with the late comedian/filmmaker Jerry Lewi...
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Dann Gire: My wild, wacky afternoon with Jerry LewisAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com If I had to choose my all-time craziest interview experience, Jerry Lewis would be it. I first met Lewis in 1982 when he c...
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Box Office Top 20: 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' hits No. 1
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "The Hitman's Bodyguard" stole the weekend from the heist pic "Logan Lucky." Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, "The Hitman's Bodyguard" op...
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Movies are moving to a more modern soundAug 21, 2017 6:00 am - Film music is only a little more than 100 years old, but that's long enough for any art form to grow stale. Musically, most trips to the multiplex run together these day...
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'The Hitman's Bodyguard' outdoes 'Logan Lucky' at box office