Movies
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Box Office Top 20: 'Pirates 5' leads slow holiday weekend
May 30, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Memorial Day weekend box office was as creaky as an old pirate ship, with the lowest total industry grosses since 1999. Disney's "Pirates of the C...
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Maine West 'Queen of the Geeks' rules as Hollywood producerMay 30, 2017 5:30 am - Carrie Lynn Certa's life at Maine West High School revolved around three activities: the speech team, the choir and the campus radio station. And she had a dream. "I wan...
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Naperville native's film about struggles with anxiety making Hollywood premiereMay 29, 2017 8:00 am - Naperville native Kelsey Sante has lived the experience in her short film, “Reach,” for years. She endured panic attacks while a student at Neuqua Valley High School and...
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'Pirates of the Caribbean' tops box office, 'Baywatch' sinks
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'Casket' buries competition at first Barrington Area Local Film FestivalMay 25, 2017 6:00 am - 'Casket' buries competition at local fest “The Casket,” a short film from Huntley resident Danial A. Miller and Elgin resident Timothy Morgan, won first prize (and ...
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'Buena Vista Social Club: Adios' a frustrating elegy to a vanishing musical formMay 25, 2017 6:00 am - In the year or so after its release, the 1997 album "Buena Vista Social Club" became a worldwide recording phenomenon. In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder had assemble...
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Fifth 'Pirates of the Caribbean' takes fans on disappointing journeyMay 24, 2017 12:30 pm - In Walt Disney's fifth installment of the lucrative "Pirates of the Caribbean" action-comedy franchise, dead men tell no tales worth telling. Everything about "Dead Men ...
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Even The Rock can't lift up raunchy, unfunny 'Baywatch'May 24, 2017 11:00 am - Of this, dear moviegoer, rest assured: Dwayne Johnson's biceps still ripple and glisten in the sun. So do his triceps, pecs, abs, delts, quads, lats and the other 600 or...
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Roger Moore, star of 7 James Bond films, dies at 89
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Dann Gire remembers agent of change Roger Moore for his charm, wit and 'humility'May 23, 2017 1:00 am - Someone had to ask the question: Why are you wearing dark sunglasses at a dimly lit press junket in a New York hotel? "Because I put them on this morning and I forgot to...