Movies
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Paranoid social media thriller loses its 'Nerve'Jul 27, 2016 5:00 am - In one of the weirdest, most presciently timed releases in movie history, the neon-glowing social media thriller "Nerve" invades theaters not only as a cautionary peer-p...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Star Trek Beyond' beams up $59.3 million
Jul 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Star Trek Beyond" easily topped the domestic box office in its first weekend in theaters with $59.3 million, but the real winner was "Lights Out," wh...
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Patsy, Eddie and friend Kate Moss hit big screen for 'Ab Fab' movieJul 25, 2016 5:30 am - LONDON - Champagne socialites Eddie and Patsy are back onscreen in a movie spinoff of the hugely popular BBC television series "Absolutely Fabulous." The film comes 24 y...
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How 'Star Trek' embraced diversity 50 years ago and todayJul 25, 2016 5:24 am - John Cho was in the United Arab Emirates, seeking an Asian husband. "Star Trek Beyond" was shooting in Dubai, and Cho's character, Sulu, would come out as gay in the new...
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The problem with Chris Hemsworth's stunt casting in 'Ghostbusters'Jul 25, 2016 5:00 am - Isn't it strange that a noncomedic actor has one of the funniest roles in “Ghostbusters”? Aside from Kate McKinnon, playing a bonkers scientist with endless facial tics,...
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'Star Trek Beyond' soars with $59.6M at weekend box office
Jul 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek Beyond" has landed atop the weekend box office. Paramount's latest outing with the Starship Enterprise soared to $59.6 million in domestic ticke...
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Original 'Planet of the Apes' back, Blue Whiskey film fest turns 7Jul 22, 2016 6:00 am - Blue Whiskey No. 7 The seventh annual Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival runs July 24 to 31. And it's moved to the Randhurst 12 theaters in Mount Prospect. "Randhurs...
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'Cafe Society' demonstrates flashes of director AllenJul 22, 2016 5:45 am - Woody Allen's "Cafe Society" opens with a garish blast of aquamarine: a tropical-hued art deco tableau set at a cocktail party thrown by a Hollywood agent in the 1930s. ...
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'Star Trek' on the big screen, worst to bestJul 22, 2016 5:00 am - Fifty years, 697 TV episodes and, as of this weekend, 13 feature films. “Star Trek” has been part of our lives for a half-century, and it shows no signs of going away. A...
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'Ice Age' franchise has run its courseJul 21, 2016 11:00 am - "Ice Age: Collision Course," the fifth installment in the 14-year-long saga of animated prehistoric animals, will, with any luck, also be the last. Lazy, scattershot and...