Movies
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'Miss Peregrine' bests 'Deepwater Horizon' at box office
Oct 02, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - In a box-office rarity, three acclaimed, original films from studios opened in theaters over the weekend. Only one caught on. Tim Burton's latest fantastical ...
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Lake Zurich brothers launch adventure filmmaking businessOct 01, 2016 7:38 am - Brothers Kyler and Kody McCormick have a recipe for people to achieve their ideal life: Get out of your comfort zone, leverage your personal story and connect with mento...
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Comically challenged 'Masterminds' exhibits neither mastery nor a mindSep 29, 2016 11:00 am - The release date of this disappointingly anemic comedy has been pushed back two times since August 2015. Would once more have killed anyone? “Masterminds” won't rank as ...
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Reel life: Catch 'Blues Brothers' in Arlington HeightsSep 29, 2016 6:00 am - Singin' the 'Blues' The Blue Whiskey Cinema Series returns with a silver-screen presentation of the classic Windy City comedy "The Blues Brothers" (shot in Chicago starr...
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'Deepwater' an engaging if shallow disaster film thrillerSep 27, 2016 11:00 pm - "Deepwater Horizon" doesn't delve very deeply into the explosion of a floating BP oil rig that killed 11 workers and spilled 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gu...
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Burton's 'Peculiar Children' a sweet fantasy with mind-blowing visualsSep 27, 2016 10:45 am - Tim Burton's “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children” has all the makings of a supernatural franchise: the call of destiny, the making of heroes and the embrace of ...
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Lupita Nyong'o's face is back on the big screenSep 25, 2016 7:15 am - TORONTO - The filmmaker Mira Nair was familiar with the regal grace of Lupita Nyong'o long before most. The Indian-born, New York-based Nair has been close friends with ...
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'Magnificent Seven' rides Denzel's star power to $35M debut
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Women in Hollywood get less screen time than men. New technology could help fix that.
Sep 24, 2016 7:10 am - Engineers have created software that parses through every scene, line and frame in a movie to determine exactly how much screen and speech time female characters are giv...
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'Goat' powerfully portrays horrors of fraternity hazingSep 22, 2016 6:15 am - “Goat” has a way of grabbing our attention. As the movie opens, recent high school graduate Brad (Ben Schnetzer) is leaving a party thrown by his older brother Brett (Ni...