Movies
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Parker's bold 'Birth of a Nation' celebrates resilience of human spiritOct 05, 2016 6:00 am - The most haunting image in Nate Parker's ambitious, spiritually florid slave revolt drama "The Birth of a Nation" shows a little white girl laughing and skipping in fron...
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Ugandan chess player's story inspires Alicia Keys songOct 04, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Alicia Keys has always been a supporter of female empowerment, so when the singer watched the new film "Queen of Katwe" and saw its female lead, Phiona Mutesi...
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Dundee Library to show Elgin documentary 'Project 2-3-1' Oct. 9Oct 03, 2016 11:00 pm - The Dundee Library is pleased to host a screening of "Project 2-3-1: Two Boxcars, Three Blocks, One City," a 2015 documentary film that tells the story of Elgin's Africa...
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Box office top 20: Burton and 'Peculiar Children' are No. 1
Oct 03, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a matchup of $100 million-plus films, Tim Burton's "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" topped Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon." Both were...
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'Miss Peregrine' bests 'Deepwater Horizon' at box office
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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 ...