Movies
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DVD previews: 'McFarland USA,' 'Focus'May 30, 2015 7:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, June 2: "McFarland USA" (PG, 128 minutes, Disney): Kevin Costner plays a novice high-school track coach who shapes a group of d...
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Crowe's Hawaiian rom-com 'Aloha' awash in overwritten, inflated dialogueMay 28, 2015 3:00 pm - Cameron Crowe's Hawaii-based rom-com drama "Aloha" suffers not only from a low ha factor, but from overwritten, inflated dialogue that makes its characters sound like th...
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Reel life: Blue Whiskey presents 'Butch Cassidy'May 28, 2015 5:30 am - Film critics notebook: • The Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival's Cinema Series presents George Roy Hill's classic western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" at 7:...
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Brosnan a steely killer in 'Survivor'May 28, 2015 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'Survivor' First as a mentoring agent in "November Man" and now as a sociopathic international hit man in "Survivor," Pierce Brosnan demonstrates the brutal...
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The Rock leads an avalanche of stony cliches in visually slick 'San Andreas'May 28, 2015 5:00 am - If you absolutely must watch a remarkable reworking of a classically bad 1970s disaster movie, you absolutely must watch "San Andreas." Brad Peyton's technically slick, ...
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Lovers find how to be lonely together in 'Felix and Meira'May 28, 2015 1:00 am - The unlikely lovers at the center of "Felix and Meira" - he's a 40-ish atheist bachelor; she's a Hasidic wife and mother nearly 20 years his junior - joke at one point a...
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Dann's movie guide: 'San Andreas' and 'Aloha' coming to theatersMay 26, 2015 11:00 pm - Will Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson's new movie “San Andreas” be a disaster movie, or just a disaster? Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire reviews the visual effect-crammed ad...
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'Tomorrowland' takes top spot on slow weekendMay 26, 2015 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The future doesn't look so bright for "Tomorrowland." Disney's expensive fantasy adventure essentially had Memorial Day weekend to itself, and still only ...
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The movies that will keep buzzing after CannesMay 26, 2015 6:00 am - CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival is a grand hierarchy with strictly defined elevations of movies and media access, where films are met by high praise or lowly b...
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Palatine screenwriter's work to be on HBOMay 26, 2015 5:30 am - Palatine screenwriter Frederick Mensch wants to quit writing. Just stop. Cold turkey. He can't. "If I would have had an opportunity to quit writing anytime during the la...