Movies
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The 3 stars of 'Moonlight' share a role and a breakthroughOct 24, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - The three Chirons of Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight' are sitting around a table, examining each other's eyes. Trevante Rhodes, 26, Ashton Sanders, 20, and Alex R. ...
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Meet the directors at Oakton film festivalOct 23, 2016 11:00 pm - Movie aficionados, bring the popcorn for the Pop-Up Film Festival, a showcase of four independent films with the opportunity to meet three of the four directors, Nov. 1-...
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Tom Hanks sees U.S. election warning in thriller 'Inferno'Oct 23, 2016 7:24 am - LONDON - Embedded within the manic action of "Inferno," the latest big-screen adaptation of a Dan Brown thriller, is a warning about the dangers of seeking simple soluti...
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Better together: 'American Pastoral' shows what unity can doOct 23, 2016 7:17 am - There's a lot to like about "American Pastoral." It surprises me to say that, given that I am not a fan of Philip Roth (who wrote the book it's based on) and I utterly d...
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Tyler Perry's 'Madea' tops Cruise's 'Jack Reacher' sequel
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Tyler Perry bested Tom Cruise at the box office this weekend. Perry's "Boo! A Madea Halloween" opened in the top spot with an estimated $27.6 million, edgi...
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See award-winning documentary, director Tuesday at Oakton Community CollegeOct 23, 2016 1:00 am - The public is invited to a free screening of the award-winning documentary, "Julio of Jackson Heights," at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in Room 1604, at Oakton Community Col...
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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...