Movies
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'King Arthur' flops, 'Guardians 2' still rules at box office
May 14, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The first major box office flop of the summer movie season has arrived. Studio estimates on Sunday say director Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Legend of the S...
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Summer movies play it safe with sequels, prequels and remakesMay 14, 2017 7:00 am - Every summer comes with a glut of what Hollywood studios judge to be commercially “safe” projects, including remakes, sequels, prequels, plus features based on TV shows,...
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Theatrical artifice shoots down realism in war drama 'The Wall'May 11, 2017 6:00 am - The Iraqi school-teacher-turned-sniper in Doug Liman's military suspense-thriller “The Wall” hates American soldiers so much, he concocts a cruel and unusual method for ...
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'Legend' a frenetically edited slog through King Arthur's sagaMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - In Guy Ritchie's dark and soulless comic action tale “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” the once-and-future king, played by a stoically self-centered Charlie Hunnam, wi...
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'Citizen Jane' documentary takes on excitement of a thrillerMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - If the powerful 20th-century city planner Robert Moses had gotten his way, Manhattan would now be crisscrossed by major highways. SoHo would have been wiped off the map ...
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'The Lovers' is charming, truthful without being cloyingMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - In "The Lovers," a sly but forgiving sex comedy by Azazel Jacobs, Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a couple trapped in a marriage as drab as the dun-colored walls of th...
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James Bond's fifth film gets 50th anniversary salute in Park RidgeMay 11, 2017 6:00 am - 007 classic celebrates 50 years The 50th anniversary of the last good Sean Connery 007 thriller, "You Only Live Twice," gets a celebration from the Pickwick Theatre Clas...
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Schumer, Hawn battle bad guys and each other in randy 'Snatched'May 10, 2017 11:00 am - Need a movie recommendation for Mother's Day weekend? "Snatched." See? The title is already naughty and funny, and the movie that follows it is even naughtier and funni...
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'Fifth Element' back on the big screen for its 20th anniversaryMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - May 9, 1997: I was working for Suncoast Motion Picture Company at Mount Prospect's previous, dearly departed incarnation of Randhurst. Those were the days of the Picnic ...
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Film Stripped Productions announces premiere of McHenry County short filmMay 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Film Stripped Productions will host the premiere of "Upstaged," a workplace comedy shot entirely on location in McHenry County, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, at the Cl...