Movies
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Santa movies both naughty and niceDec 13, 2013 4:30 am - Traditional Christmas movies showcase St. Nicholas as a generically sweet, generous fellow with a belly filled with jelly and the gentle disposition of a giant stuffed p...
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List of nominees for 71st Golden Globe AwardsDec 12, 2013 9:00 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: M...
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'12 Years,' 'Hustle' lead Globes nominationsDec 12, 2013 7:00 am - The searing historical epic “12 Years a Slave” and the con-artist caper “American Hustle” lead the 71st annual Golden Globes with seven nominations each. The nominations...
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Jackson's faster-paced Middle Earth adventure still a victim of bloatDec 12, 2013 5:00 am - After turning J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth into a bloated, brain-numbing travelogue in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Peter Jackson strikes back with a sequel sli...
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'Last Days' a mixed-up mess of genre tropesDec 12, 2013 5:00 am - "The Last Days on Mars," Ruairi Robinson's messed-up mash-up of horror and science fiction, stars Liev Schreiber as the commander of a space mission aborted by a sudden ...
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Fact-based comic drama poppin' with merry tale of seductionDec 12, 2013 4:00 am - On the surface, there would appear to be no greater kindred spirits than Walt Disney and “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers. No one understood the power of fantasy to he...
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‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘Osage County’ top SAG nomsDec 11, 2013 9:14 am - LOS ANGELES — Steve McQueen’s historic saga “12 Years a Slave,” Jon Wells’ dysfunctional family adaptation “August: Osage County,” Jean-Marc Vallee’s AIDS drama “Dallas ...
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Daily Herald critic talks lighting in SchaumburgDec 10, 2013 2:00 pm - Daily Herald subscribers got to meet film critic Dann Gire and see his program “Enlighten Me!” all about movie lighting Tuesday night at Littman Bros. Lighting, 845 S. R...
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From wild child at Hersey to Hollywood actorDec 09, 2013 11:00 am - Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that “Duet” was not the first play Keith Szarabajka wrote, and its two main characters are a young black woman and ...
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Boston Marathon bombing affected ‘American Hustle’Dec 09, 2013 5:00 am - NEW YORK — While shooting in Boston, David O. Russell found his film “American Hustle” caught up in the Boston Marathon bombing. When the city was essentially shut down...