Movies
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'Walk' takes viewers on spellbinding journeySep 30, 2015 5:15 am - When Robert Zemeckis' fact-based tale of mad dreams "The Walk" comes out on video formats, I anticipate that many viewers will skip over the strained "Mission: Impossibl...
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Director Denis Villeneuve walks a fine line between art and commerceSep 29, 2015 6:00 am - Is Denis Villeneuve ready for the big time? When the French Canadian filmmaker's work was first was shown in Washington, in 2009, it was in the form of a 12-minute art f...
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The 'working mom' debate hasn't evolved in 30 years - 'The Intern' proves itSep 29, 2015 6:00 am - It's no coincidence that Nancy Meyers' "The Intern," the No. 2 movie at the box office this weekend, echoes "Baby Boom," the movie she wrote in 1987. Both films center o...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Hotel Transylvania 2' flies higher
Sep 28, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Hotel Transylvania 2" set the bar even higher for the best September opening of all time. The animated sequel, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler a...
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'Hotel' sequel bites off September recordSep 27, 2015 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - September has a new box office star in "Hotel Transylvania 2." The PG-rated animated pic earned a robust $47.5 million in its debut weekend, making it the...
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Zemeckis lovingly resurrects Twin Towers for 'The Walk'Sep 27, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - In the months and years after Sept. 11, the World Trade Center was swept out of the movies. The Towers were removed from such films as "Zoolander" and "Serend...
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DVD previews: 'Spy,' 'Entourage'Sep 26, 2015 7:10 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Sept. 29: "Spy" (R, 120 minutes, Fox): Supremely hilarious comedy that gives Melissa McCarthy the meatiest role of her movi...
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'Hotel Transylvania 2' just enough of a Halloween treatSep 24, 2015 6:00 pm - Unlike many animated tales that end with a happily-ever-after-wedding, "Hotel Transylvania 2" starts with one. In this mildly amusing sequel to 2012's "Hotel Transylvani...
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'Stonewall,' about a pivotal point in gay history, misses the markSep 24, 2015 6:45 am - As well-intentioned misfires go, it's difficult to imagine as disastrous a dud as “Stonewall,” an earnest dramatization of real-life events that winds up being as lament...
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Reel life: Dann & Raymond take a look at zombiesSep 24, 2015 6:15 am - Film critics notebook: • Dann & Raymond's Movie Club has switched topics for its Thursday, Oct. 1, presentation at the Schaumburg Library, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumbur...