Movies
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Honor Flight inspires Kildeer man to make movieNov 09, 2014 6:00 am - Newly retired and looking for a good cause, Dale Chellis of Kildeer read a newspaper column in March 2008 about Honor Flight Chicago. The fledgling charity was organizin...
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'Big Hero 6,' 'Interstellar' soar at box officeNov 09, 2014 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - A team of animated Marvel characters rocketed past a group of wormhole-bound astronauts at the weekend box office. Disney's animated adventure "Big Hero 6...
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DVD previews: 'Tammy,' 'Jersey Boys'Nov 08, 2014 5:30 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 11: "Tammy" (R, 96 minutes, Warner): Tammy (played by Plainfield's Melissa McCarthy) is a graceless, thoroughly unpleasant...
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Disney stirs 'Star Wars' fans with 'Force Awakens' titleNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - Walt Disney Co. has dangled another morsel of information about its coming "Star Wars" film, revealing the name of the seventh installment and eliciting a range of react...
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Reel life: 'Interstellar' is not the place for IMAXNov 06, 2014 5:00 am - Taken to the IMAX? The IMAX company didn't finance, market or distribute Christopher Nolan's new science-fiction drama “Interstellar.” Yet, the company is, accordi...
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Edet Belzberg's excellent 'Watchers' tells a horrible taleNov 06, 2014 4:45 am - Mini-review: 'Watchers of the Sky' Anyone possessed with even a fleeting sense of social justice should be amazed and appalled by what he/she sees and learns in Edet Bel...
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Appealing actors can't lift struggling 'Low Down'Nov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Mini-review: 'Low Down' Jazz musicians struggling with personal demons and drugs have become a subgenre on their own. “Bird,” “Man With the Golden Arm” and “Lady Si...
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Nolan's 'Interstellar' a trippy, twisty tale of saving humankindNov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Christopher Nolan shoots for the stars in his wildly ambitious, visually explosive sci-fi epic “Interstellar.” And he succeeds, relativity speaking. In “Interstellar,” N...
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Superhero conventions deflate Disney's 'Big Hero 6'Nov 06, 2014 4:15 am - As the Disney-Marvel mash-up "Big Hero 6" moves toward its big-action finale, the images will look strikingly familiar. A supervillain wreaks havoc. A portal to another ...
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VHS tapes bring trouble in 'Jessabelle'Nov 06, 2014 4:00 am - Mini-review: 'Jessabelle' The title "V/H/S" has already been snapped up, but it would have been an ideal title for "Jessabelle," a ghost tale that hinges on messages a n...