Movies
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Romance goes 'Beyond' the clichesNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - I am not normally a fan of movies that romanticize and glorify ethics-challenged, edgy sexual relationships between professional protectors and the very people they've b...
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Stewart's 'Rosewater' flows with suprising humorNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - Compared to how U.S. interrogators tortured prisoners in Kathryn Bigelow's fact-based military drama "Zero Dark Thirty," the Iranian prison housing Newsweek corresponden...
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Fact-based 'Theory' propelled by Redmayne's Stephen HawkingNov 13, 2014 4:30 am - Eddie Redmayne's moving portrait of the great British physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" ranks as one of those rarest of film performances, a galvan...
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Reel life: Follow that yellow brick roadNov 13, 2014 4:15 am - Film critics notebook: • You should be off to see the Wizard this weekend. If you've never seen the classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” on the silver screen, you owe it t...
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Dramatic material the driving force behind 'Invisible Front'Nov 13, 2014 4:15 am - Mini-review: "The Invisible Front" The post-World War II documentary "The Invisible Front" had everything going for it to become a riveting, bigger-than-life story. It h...
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'Dumb and Dumber To' lives up to its titleNov 12, 2014 10:00 pm - Comedy is all about timing. The dimwitted Lloyd (Jim Carrey) reminds the audience of that simple fact minutes into "Dumb and Dumber To" and the sentiment echoes througho...
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Still dumb - and funny - after all these yearsNov 12, 2014 4:45 am - Those intellectual giants Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Doyle (Jeff Daniels) are back in theaters this weekend with the sequel "Dumb and Dumber To," and revisit...
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Lombard native Rachel Melvin co-stars in 'Dumb and Dumber To'Nov 11, 2014 4:30 am - Until now, actress Rachel Melvin has been best known for her four-year stint on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives." The Lombard native's career takes a quantum-leap ...
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Climate change inspires rise of 'cli-fi' flicksNov 10, 2014 5:00 am - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The giant, inflatable whale in this Gulf Coast city signals not only the arrival of one of the world's biggest documentary festivals, but also the...
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TV news is the bloodsucker of the moment at moviesNov 10, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK - Not since Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" have characters been chewed and spit out by TV news quite like they have been of late at the movies. "Nightcrawler" and...