Movies
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'Moana's' main demigod looks a little like People's 'Sexiest Man Alive'Nov 24, 2016 5:00 am - Once upon a time, in his early incarnations, Maui the Disney demigod bore a striking tonsorial resemblance to People magazine's latest idea of a man-god. In the animated...
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Casey Affleck boosts grief-saturated 'Manchester by the Sea'Nov 24, 2016 5:00 am - One of the first truths you learn in journalism is that everyone has a story; there can be much more to people than meets the eyes. In Kenneth Lonergan's restrained, gri...
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Warren Beatty makes charismatic comeback in uneven 'Rules Don't Apply'Nov 22, 2016 7:00 am - Warren Beatty doesn't want us to regard “Rules Don't Apply,” in which he stars as Howard Hughes, as a Howard Hughes film. It's actually a movie about late '50s Hollywood...
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'Bad Santa 2' is bad — and not in a good wayNov 22, 2016 12:00 am - If the 2003 comedy “Bad Santa” was, as critic Stephen Hunter put it, “demographically engineered for the smallest interest group in America: those who hate Christmas,” t...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Fantastic Beasts' summons $74.4 million
Nov 21, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kicking off a five-film franchise spun off from the Harry Potter universe, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" debuted to a healthy $74.4 millio...
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West Chicago native helps animated 'Moana' set sailNov 21, 2016 12:00 am - If you appreciate how realistic the animated water looks in Walt Disney's new musical "Moana," you can thank former West Chicago kid Sean Palmer. A little bit, anyway. T...
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'Allied' feels forced, despite A-list starsNov 20, 2016 10:00 pm - In the War II romance "Allied," Robert Zemeckis has resurrected the espionage thriller in all its classical glamour with a knowingness that's both impressively grand and...
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'Moana' a lushly visualized Walt Disney musical adventureNov 20, 2016 10:00 pm - Just when you think Walt Disney's animators couldn't possibly match 2016's earlier imaginative trip to the fantastic "Zootopia," now comes "Moana," a contemporary musica...
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Miles Teller comes back swinging in 'Bleed for This'Nov 20, 2016 6:23 am - LOS ANGELES - By his count, Miles Teller has done 13 films in the past five years - four of them came out this year alone. Suffice it to say, the 29-year-old actor is ab...
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'Fantastic Beasts' spins magic, 'Billy Lynn's' tanks