Movies
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Superb journalism film puts 'Spotlight' on abuseNov 10, 2015 4:45 pm - Since 1976, Alan J. Pakula's "All the President's Men" has ruled as the gold standard of journalism motion pictures. Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" now owns that title. Both...
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Is James Bond more moral than a drone?Nov 10, 2015 5:00 am - One of the hallmarks of the last two James Bond movies, "Skyfall," released in 2012, and "Spectre," which arrived in theaters last weekend, has been the way director Sam...
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Avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson calls Glen Ellyn upbringing idyllicNov 10, 2015 4:00 am - Laurie Anderson vividly remembers the night she almost drowned her two little brothers in a Glen Ellyn lake. In her new impressionistic movie "Heart of a Dog," opening F...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Spectre' makes $70.4 million in debut
Nov 09, 2015 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Spectre," the latest in the James Bond series, skyrocketed to the top of the box office without much resistance, earning $70.4 million in its first d...
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Arlington Heights film event pushed backNov 09, 2015 12:00 am - Dann & Raymond's Movie Club presentation "How He Got into My Pajamas I'll Never Know: The Great Comedies, Part 1" has been moved to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the A...
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'Spectre' shoots to $73 million, misses 'Skyfall's' mark
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DVD previews: 'Trainwreck,' 'Mr. Holmes'Nov 06, 2015 10:00 pm - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 10: “Mr. Holmes” (PG, 105 minutes, Miramax/Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate): Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes as an o...
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Manipulative 'Miss You' goes straight for tear ductsNov 06, 2015 5:00 am - You'd be hard pressed to find a film title that telegraphs its ending more than “Miss You Already.” The drama about two women whose friendship is tested when one is diag...
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Charming 'Peanuts' cracks jokes, not diversityNov 06, 2015 4:30 am - The 3-D, computer-animated "The Peanuts Movie" plays like a condensed "greatest hits" compilation of every familiar bit immortalized by Charles M. Schulz in his beloved ...
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Spike Lee defends 'Chi-Raq'S
Nov 05, 2015 10:00 pm - Filmmaker Spike Lee today fired back at critics of "Chi-Raq" who have been offended by his upcoming film about violence in Chicago. "Some people are getting it twisted...