Movies
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Check out 2nd film in Gene Siskel series Nov. 12Nov 01, 2015 12:00 am - The second movie in the Gene Siskel Film Series, "Paul Taylor Creative Domain," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the John & Nancy Hughes Theater at the G...
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DVD previews: 'Inside Out,' 'End of the Tour'Oct 31, 2015 7:20 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 3: "Inside Out" (PG, 102 minutes, Pixar/Disney): Pixar's trippiest, most audacious animated comedy concerns the fiv...
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Barry Levinson's 'The Natural' to be shown Nov. 4 at Star Cinema GrillOct 29, 2015 11:00 pm - The Blue Whiskey Cinema Series, a monthly program offered by the Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival, will present a one-night only screening of the 1984 Robert Redfo...
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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...