Movies
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This 'Jack' doesn't reach quality of its 2012 originalOct 21, 2016 6:00 am - It's not the acting or the action that makes "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" inferior to the original 2012 hit. It's the story. The first "Jack Reacher" established the ti...
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'American Pastoral' a respectable but dull adaptation of Roth's novelOct 21, 2016 6:00 am - Scottish actor Ewan McGregor makes a respectable if unimaginative directing debut with "American Pastoral," yet another adaptation of a Philip Roth novel that mistakes a...
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Dann says enough of the 'waking from a nightmare' clicheOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - A real wake-up call Three times in Mike Flanagan's horror sequel "Ouija: Origin of Evil," characters wake up from bad dreams by bolting upright in bed like spring-l...
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'Romance' deathly dull and just plain ickyOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - The ironically titled "American Romance" belongs to a particularly cruel and nasty subgroup in the home invasion exploitation genre. Seeing it is something akin to watch...
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'Certain Women' offers candid glimpses of life, landscapeOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - Over her 20-year career, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has carved out a singular, determinedly off-center space in the cinematic landscape, working in sometimes epic scale (...
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Spy comedy 'Keeping Up' plays it safe, delivering few laughsOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - Best known as the brooding protagonist of AMC's "Mad Men," Jon Hamm is also a gifted comic actor. Hamm first hinted at this potential in the web series "Between Two Fern...
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Celebrate Halloween with film classicsOct 18, 2016 11:00 pm - Gorton Community Center hosts Gorton Ghoulish Feature Fest, including the family-friendly Haunted Grotto and well-loved film classics centered on the Halloween theme. T...
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Well-timed jolts keep 'Ouija' from being just a bored gameOct 18, 2016 11:00 pm - Outside of "Tyler Perry's Boo!," we don't have many Halloween movies on the docket this month, and that puts a premium on the jumps, jolts and shocks effectively finesse...
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A-minus at Loyola Academy fueled 'Westworld' creatorOct 18, 2016 5:00 am - An A-minus on a freshman high school creative writing assignment may not seem like such a big deal, but for future filmmaker Jonathan Nolan, that grade changed his life....
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Short films for 'Nightmare' to benefit South Elgin animal shelterOct 18, 2016 1:00 am - Besides zombies and scary stuff, this week's Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin will give visitors a chance to benefit a good cause. The short films "The Devil Cat" an...