Movies
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Gire: 'Life After Beth' a lifeless rom-zom-comSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'Life After Beth' For a romantic zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's "Life After Beth" comes up way short on laughs, scares, action and political insights into our ...
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Clooney to helm film about British hacking scandalSep 03, 2014 11:00 pm - CULVER CITY, Calif. - Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that George Clooney will co-produce and direct the film version of "Hack Attack," reporter Nick Davies' book abou...
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'Boardwalk,' reality show begin fall TV seasonSep 03, 2014 11:00 pm - The fall TV season unofficially begins this weekend with two Sunday-night premieres. Fox kicks things off at 7 p.m. with “Utopia,” a new reality show that looks like “Su...
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Weinstein to release Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight'Sep 03, 2014 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - Quentin Tarantino is moving forward with "The Hateful Eight." The Weinstein Co. says it will distribute the filmmaker's latest project - a post-Civil War W...
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Elk Grove Village girl pursues dolphin trainer dreamAug 30, 2014 11:00 pm - As an idealistic young boy in rural Indiana, I vowed to grow up to be the starting second-baseman on the Chicago Cubs team that would win all those World Series champion...
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DVD previews: 'Draft Day,' 'They Came Together'Aug 30, 2014 6:15 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Sept. 2: "Draft Day" (PG-13, 109 minutes, Lionsgate): Kevin Costner plays Sonny Weaver Jr., general manager of the Clevelan...
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5 takeaways from a lackluster summer box officeAug 30, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - The movie of the summer might have been Marvel's irreverent hit "Guardians of the Galaxy," the top domestic film at the box office. Or it could have been Mich...
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Autumn movies get serious and scary with dramas and moreAug 29, 2014 6:00 am - As the fall movie season cranks up next week, several questions arise: Can Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels get any dumberer? Will Christopher Nolan regain his mojo with "In...
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Gire: 'Yves Saint Laurent' not as inspirational as it should beAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - If you'll excuse the wording, Jalil Lespert's bio-drama “Yves Saint Laurent” is ill-suited to tell the story of the French fashion wunderkind who, at 21, took over Chris...
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Underground found-footage horror tale should get lostAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” is the inscription uncovered by a gang of twenty-something treasure hunters in the catacomb-hopping horror flick, “As Above, So Be...