Movies
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Gire, suburbanites celebrate Oscar in WheatonMar 02, 2014 12:00 am - Though Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire called this year's Academy Award nominee field one of the “tightest, toughest” he's ever seen, it turned out pretty much the wa...
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Disney launches digital movies appMar 01, 2014 7:14 am - LOS ANGELES - Disney is launching a digital movies app that allows fans to store movie purchases online and play them back over Apple devices and computers. The launch o...
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DVD previews: '12 Years a Slave,' 'Hours'Mar 01, 2014 4:45 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, March 4: "12 Years a Slave" (R, 134 minutes, Fox): Intense, unflinching, bold in its simplicity and radical in its use of i...
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'12 Years a Slave' rolls at Spirit AwardsMar 01, 2014 12:01 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. - "12 Years a Slave" rolled at the Spirit Awards, winning five awards including best feature at the annual independent film celebration. On the eve ...
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ECC kicks off spring film series with 'Searching for Sugar Man'Feb 28, 2014 10:00 pm - Screen the best in foreign cinema this spring during the Elgin Community College Humanities Center's International Film Series. Held the first and second Friday of each ...
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Make your Oscar picksFeb 28, 2014 8:00 am - 2014 Oscar nominees Best Picture “American Hustle” “Captain Phillips” “Dallas Buyers Club” “Gravity” “Her” “Nebraska” “Philomena” “12 Years a Slave” “T...
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Wes Anderson graces 'Grand Budapest' screeningFeb 28, 2014 5:00 am - Film critic's notebook: • Chicago's Music Box Theatre will host an advance screening of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 1 (opening in Chicago M...
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Liam Neeson the actor, not the action starFeb 28, 2014 4:45 am - Liam Neeson, who rose to considerable fame and acclaim in 1993 with Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning “Schindler's List,” has in recent years found a lucrative niche play...
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Dumb-downed 'Odd Thomas' not overly scaryFeb 28, 2014 4:30 am - Stephen Sommers' "Odd Thomas" constitutes a visually dynamic, aggressively edited adaptation of a Dean Koontz book about a young fry cook who sees dead people. Unlike th...
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Oscar's wild! Which film will win best picture?Feb 28, 2014 4:30 am - The race for the Best Picture Oscar boils down to this: Classic tradition or cutting-edge innovation? Will voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences go f...