Movies
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Comic Con meshes all kinds of entertainmentAug 08, 2013 12:00 pm - The comic and silver screen worlds united once again Friday at the 41st annual Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemo...
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‘Wizard of Oz’ Munchkin who visited Woodridge diesAug 08, 2013 11:21 am - PHOENIX — Margaret Pellegrini, one of the original Munchkins from the 1939 classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” has died. She was 89. Pellegrini suffered a stroke Monday at...
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'Spectacular Now' a surprising, heartfelt teen romanceAug 08, 2013 6:00 am - "Live in the moment." It's a pat piece of advice we all get at some point in our lives, usually when we're being anxious or obsessive about something we can't control. ...
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'Planes' takes a dive from regular Disney animated comediesAug 08, 2013 6:00 am - Ishani, the nicely proportioned Indian air vehicle in Walt Disney's 3-D animated comedy "Planes," tells Dusty Crophopper that in her culture, her fellow Indian airplanes...
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'Blood' focuses on guilt, family dynamicAug 08, 2013 6:00 am - Mini-review: "Blood" The main character in British filmmaker Nick Murphy's color-bled police drama "Blood" might as well be human conscience. Not since Adrian Lyne's ...
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'Lovelace' a tepid retelling of a terrible tragedyAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - "Lovelace" tells the story of pioneering 1970s porn queen Linda Lovelace from two perspectives. First, the public view of how a young Catholic woman achieved fame by us...
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Buff, tough Damon stars in a more brawn-than-brains thrillerAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - The science fiction thriller "Elysium" wants to be many things, among them a thinly disguised endorsement of universal health care (read: Obamacare), a push for amnesty ...
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‘Despicable Me’ screening for juvenile diabetesAug 07, 2013 5:33 pm - Barrington’s Catlow Theater and Walgreen’s are teaming up for a charity screening of “Despicable Me” to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The fa...
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Rosemont horror convention celebrates film classicsAug 07, 2013 6:00 am - Mike Kerz was dying to see “Night of the Living Dead.” It was 1974, six years after the film's 1968 release. Kerz, then 14, had read about George A. Romero's zombie movi...
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Percy Jackson sequel even weaker than originalAug 06, 2013 5:00 pm - "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," the second film based on Rick Riordan's immensely popular books about a dyslexic boy who discovers he's a demigod, may make some movieg...