Movies
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'Burnt' cooks up searing portrait of high-pressure chefOct 29, 2015 6:15 am - Everything you need to know about Adam Jones, the difficult cooking prodigy at the center of "Burnt," you glean from the movie's opening scenes. Adam is the kind of guy...
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'Suffragette' offers strong performances, muddled taleOct 29, 2015 6:00 am - Director Sarah Gavron had a choice of protagonists for "Suffragette," her dramatically inert tribute to the early 20th century political movement pushing to give British...
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'Truth' doesn't look at the whole storyOct 29, 2015 6:00 am - In "Truth," Cate Blanchett plays the television journalist Mary Mapes, who, in 2004 - just weeks before the presidential election - produced a controversial "60 Minutes ...
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Reel life: Do you like scary movies?Oct 29, 2015 5:45 am - Redbox publicist Debra Caron recently emailed me a survey of 800 customers who named the five scariest movies of all time: 1. "The Exorcist" 2. "A Nightmare on Elm Stree...
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'Experimenter' replays a controversial studyOct 29, 2015 5:15 am - The real-life experimenter at the heart of the docudrama that goes by that name is Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), a social psychologist who, in an infamous 1961 experiment...
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Brilliant Bullock fails to elevate bland 'Brand'Oct 29, 2015 5:00 am - Sandra Bullock has a strong shot at an Oscar nomination for her committed performance in David Gordon Green's muddled political comedy "Our Brand is Crisis." She plays ...
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For Blu-rays, the end is nigh — and that's good newsOct 28, 2015 5:00 am - My fiancee and I recently moved, and the most cumbersome part wasn't the couch or the entertainment center — it was our physical media collection. I have two 23-gallon f...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Steve Jobs' struggles, new films bomb
Oct 26, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's a bad time to be a new movie in theaters. None of this weekend's new openers made much of an impact, and one, "Jem and the Holograms," which made...
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Bradley Cooper rolls up his sleeves for 'Burnt'Oct 26, 2015 5:45 am - LOS ANGELES - Bradley Cooper wasn't a novice to the kitchen when he decided to take on the role of the fictional Michelin star chef Adam Jones in "Burnt." He grew up in ...
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Acting a 'blast' for former Mount Prospect residentOct 26, 2015 1:00 am - Patrick Rafferty grew up in Mount Prospect dreaming of one day owning a restaurant. Two things changed his mind: 9/11 and a news story in the Daily Herald. “The Herald s...