Movies
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Warren Township movie screeningNov 25, 2016 12:00 am - Warren Township Youth Services near Gurnee will present a free screening of "Paper Tigers" on Thursday, Dec. 1. It will run from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Warren town hall, ...
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Gift guide: Vintage video games, TV classicsNov 24, 2016 6:41 am - Looking for gift ideas for the gamer, film buff and couch potato in your life? Check these out: The games you grew up with The hottest video games of Christmases past ar...
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May the Force guide you to the best holiday movies this seasonNov 24, 2016 6:30 am - Call them what you want: Oscar bait. Holiday treats. An apology for a lackluster summer and fall. The holiday movies have arrived! So, what can we look forward to? • No....
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'Spartacus,' 'Star Trek,' musicals on upcoming movie menuNov 24, 2016 5:00 am - Happy 100th, Kirk! Hollywood superstar Kirk Douglas turns 100 on Dec. 9. To commemorate this milestone, Matthew Hoffman's Park Ridge Classic Film series will present the...
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'Moana's' main demigod looks a little like People's 'Sexiest Man Alive'Nov 24, 2016 5:00 am - Once upon a time, in his early incarnations, Maui the Disney demigod bore a striking tonsorial resemblance to People magazine's latest idea of a man-god. In the animated...
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Casey Affleck boosts grief-saturated 'Manchester by the Sea'Nov 24, 2016 5:00 am - One of the first truths you learn in journalism is that everyone has a story; there can be much more to people than meets the eyes. In Kenneth Lonergan's restrained, gri...
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Warren Beatty makes charismatic comeback in uneven 'Rules Don't Apply'Nov 22, 2016 7:00 am - Warren Beatty doesn't want us to regard “Rules Don't Apply,” in which he stars as Howard Hughes, as a Howard Hughes film. It's actually a movie about late '50s Hollywood...
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'Bad Santa 2' is bad — and not in a good wayNov 22, 2016 12:00 am - If the 2003 comedy “Bad Santa” was, as critic Stephen Hunter put it, “demographically engineered for the smallest interest group in America: those who hate Christmas,” t...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Fantastic Beasts' summons $74.4 million
Nov 21, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kicking off a five-film franchise spun off from the Harry Potter universe, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" debuted to a healthy $74.4 millio...
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West Chicago native helps animated 'Moana' set sailNov 21, 2016 12:00 am - If you appreciate how realistic the animated water looks in Walt Disney's new musical "Moana," you can thank former West Chicago kid Sean Palmer. A little bit, anyway. T...