Movies
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Waubonsee to host Environmental Film Festival March 3-12Feb 19, 2017 10:00 pm - Waubonsee Community College will host the Midwest's premier environmental film festival at its Aurora downtown campus in March. The One Earth Film Festival, now in its s...
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Green Sanctuary to show 'Chasing Ice' Friday at Tree of LifeFeb 19, 2017 10:00 pm - The Green Sanctuary film series returns after a hiatus with a showing of the 2014 Emmy Award-winning documentary "Chasing Ice" at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, at the Tree of ...
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'Cure' gives Verbinski a fresh start after 'Lone Ranger' flopFeb 19, 2017 6:15 am - Say what you will about Gore Verbinski's “The Lone Ranger,” but it didn't lack for ambition. Verbinski's $215 million film was a bid to reorient the Texas Ranger tale ar...
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'Sensory-friendly' movies not only for kids with autismFeb 18, 2017 12:00 am - When Des Plaines mom Dawn Augustyn took her daughter to see “The Peanuts Movie,” the dark theater and loud volume overwhelmed the 5½-year-old, who covered her ears, crie...
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What do movies mean to autistic children?Feb 18, 2017 12:00 am - "Life, Animated," a documentary film about an autistic boy who uses Disney movies to communicate, is nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary (Feature). The award...
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Stock characters, dumb dialogue tear down ' Great Wall'Feb 16, 2017 2:45 pm - Seldom in motion picture history has such stylish, visual bombast been forced to service such dumbed-down, subtly racist storytelling. We find out early in Chinese direc...
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Sparse laughs assail thin sketches in comedy 'Fist Fight'Feb 16, 2017 11:00 am - The insipid high school comedy “Fist Fight” celebrates and exploits the very ideas that it should be ridiculing for comic effect, such as childish, lying, self-centered ...
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Lack of logic ails beguiling 'Cure for Wellness'Feb 16, 2017 5:00 am - At nearly 2½ hours long, "A Cure for Wellness" may qualify as the world's longest, most agonizing teaser. For most of that duration, the gorgeously disturbing new film b...
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Down to the wire with Oscars and Gire as Academy Awards loomFeb 16, 2017 5:00 am - Movie Club predicts the Oscars twice more How will Denzel Washington's recent SAG award impact Casey Affleck's chances of winning the Best Actor Oscar? Will media backla...
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Fact-based marriage drama 'United Kingdom' comes up short on passionFeb 15, 2017 10:30 am - Amma Asante's "A United Kingdom" tells the true story of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, whose controversial marriage makes the political conflicts in 2016's mixed-race...