Movies
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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
Sep 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Movie stars don't open movies anymore? Tell that to Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks. The pair, once co-stars in "Philadelphia," have together dominated the la...
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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...
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'Queen of Katwe' shares inspiring tale of dreams, chess and UgandaSep 22, 2016 6:15 am - The colors and rhythms of life in the slums of Uganda set "Queen of Katwe" apart from other underdog chess movies. While Hollywood has long celebrated chess as a great e...
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Reel life: Elgin shows its shortsSep 22, 2016 6:00 am - The 8th annual Elgin Short Film Festival rolls into the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin, with six finalists being shown, starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday, ...
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Playful 'Storks' fails to deliver total packageSep 22, 2016 6:00 am - The question of "Where do babies come from?" has been answered, throughout movie history, with some unsavory characters. In the case of "Rosemary's Baby," a demonic neig...
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Nasty 'Dressmaker' opts for style over substanceSep 22, 2016 5:45 am - In "The Dressmaker," Kate Winslet plays Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to her tiny Australian hometown, nursing a lifelong grudge against her former ne...
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'Magnificent Seven' remake lacks smarts, cool cast of originalSep 21, 2016 10:45 am - Antoine Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven" lacks two key components that made John Sturges' 1960 remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic "The Seven Samurai" a favorite West...
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Pitt, Jolie star power mightier than box office power