Movies
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New 'Tarzan' swings as relationship drama, adventureJun 29, 2016 8:00 am - It's a romance, a bromance, a show-mance and a go-go-go-mance. Just when you thought we didn't need another adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' king of the jungle, ...
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Steven Spielberg directs talky, likable 'BFG'Jun 28, 2016 2:00 pm - It begins as the most scrumdiddlyumptious story, then slowly turns into one heck of a whizzpopper. Steven Spielberg's "The BFG," based on Roald Dahl's classic kiddles' b...
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Longer 'Batman v Superman' is better, but still frustratingJun 28, 2016 1:00 am - Most who saw Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill square off in theaters this spring didn't think their 152-minute film needed to be longer. Warner Bros. and director Zack Snyde...
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Box office top 20: 'Finding Dory' swamps 'Independence Day'
Jun 27, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "Finding Dory" topped the weekend North American box office for the second straight week, drowning the underperforming "Independence Day: Resurgence." Ac...
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See 'A Table for Sixty Thousand,' meet director July 15Jun 26, 2016 11:00 pm - The main gallery at Water Street Studios, 160 S. Water St. in Batavia, will host a free screening of the documentary film, "A Table for Sixty Thousand," at 6 p.m. Friday...
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'Dory' overwhelms 'Independence Day,' 'Shallows' surprises
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How Sigourney Weaver and Ed O'Neill were netted for 'Dory'Jun 26, 2016 6:45 am - "Finding Dory" brings back a lot of familiar faces from "Finding Nemo" - but if you've seen the movie, you know some of the newer characters steal the show. One such cha...
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'Independence Day' sequel a blast of big, dumb funJun 24, 2016 11:30 am - If you have any interest in a sequel to "Independence Day," you'll likely not be disappointed by the improbably enjoyable "Independence Day: Resurgence." It's silly, lig...
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'The Shallows' delivers tension in Blake Lively vs. shark taleJun 24, 2016 10:00 am - It's helpful to think of "The Shallows" - the spare yet serviceable new shark-themed thriller starring Blake Lively - as less of a 21st-century "Jaws" than a distaff ver...
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'Neon Demon' director says he's 'addicted' to darknessJun 24, 2016 6:00 am - At Chicago's Waldorf Astoria Hotel Monday, I asked polarizing Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn - director of such edgy works as "Only God Forgives," "Bronson" and "...