Movies
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Reel life: 'Meddler' creator talks truth, mom and griefApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Actress, writer, director Lorene Scafaria, 37, is best known for her bitey adapted screenplay to “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.” In 2012, Scafaria, Lemont native Dia...
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'Papa' not a novel approach to Hemingway or his workApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Bob Yari's "Papa: Hemingway in Cuba" is the first Hollywood movie to be shot in Cuba since its 1959 revolution, It's such an emotionally vacant and sterile work of drama...
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'Meddler' a comic drama full of AARPish joyApr 27, 2016 11:15 am - Marnie Minervini is a champion meddler. She can really put the pedal to the meddle. She calls her poor TV writer daughter Lori almost hourly, leaving a trail of phone me...
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Met Gala documentary spotlights Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as artApr 27, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The opening seconds of the trailer for “The First Monday in May,” the new documentary about the dizzyingly star-studded Met Gala, show pop star Rihanna tossin...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Jungle Book' overpowers 'Huntsman'
Apr 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even with its star-studded cast of Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" proved to be no co...
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Young Irish star of 'Sing Street' looks forward, while director looks backApr 25, 2016 6:00 am - "Sing Street" runs two ways. For Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, the star of the new movie musical about a plucky Irish teenager who starts a band, the film is just the first step i...
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'Huntsman' sequel misfires; 'Jungle Book' reigns
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Five things 'Game of Thrones' should give us in Season 6Apr 22, 2016 6:00 am - "Game of Thrones" returns at 8 p.m. Sunday to HBO for its sixth season of blood, betrayal, bare skin, brilliant dialogue and - I hope - some righteous retribution. Seaso...
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Casting not the only problem with off-key 'Nina'Apr 22, 2016 5:00 am - The questionable casting of Zoe Saldana is only one of the many problems with Cynthia Mort's limp and misjudged Nina Simone biopic "Nina." Little of the High Priestess o...
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Reel life: 'Merchants of Doubt' screening, discussion at MetropolisApr 21, 2016 5:00 am - Critics notebook: • The League of Women Voters will sponsor a showing of one of the most important journalism documentaries of the 21st century so far, “Merchants o...