Movies
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'Oldboy' an apathetic, violent remakeNov 27, 2013 5:00 am - Viewers unfamiliar with Park Chan-wook's original 2003 Korean production of "Oldboy" might be shocked by graphic violent acts and eye-poppingly frank sexual encounters i...
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Dench delights as a mother seeking her son in 'Philomena'Nov 27, 2013 4:30 am - Ask any good chef: Why do some recipes work, while others, with the very same ingredients, do not? Ah, but it's the QUALITY of the ingredients that matters, that chef wi...
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St. Charles ready to light up the season on Saturday, Nov. 30Nov 26, 2013 11:56 am - Holiday parades have been happening in St. Charles for more than 30 years. This weekend, the city will again light up with the Holiday Homecoming and Electric Christmas ...
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Franco's creepy Gator aids botched action thrillerNov 26, 2013 5:00 am - In Gary Fleder's Southern-fried "Homefront," James Franco plays a bad-old boy with the wonderfully rank, white trashy name Gator Bodine (rhymes with "bovine"). He runs a...
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'Frozen' covers familiar Disney terrain with added surprisesNov 26, 2013 5:00 am - The 3-D musical "Frozen" may not rank as a great Walt Disney animated classic, but it still packs breathtaking scenes, welcome moments of visual and verbal hilarity, plu...
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‘Catching Fire’ sets November box office recordNov 24, 2013 3:20 pm - NEW YORK — Moviegoers satiated their appetite for the “Hunger Games” franchise by making the sequel “Catching Fire” one of the year’s biggest hits. “The Hunger Games: Ca...
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A barrel full o' 'Breaking Bad'Nov 24, 2013 4:30 am - Let us look all the way back to ... Sept. 29! The binge-watching phenomenon known as "Breaking Bad" ended its six-year run on AMC with a final episode rightly embraced ...
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DeGeneres has global ‘goal’ for Oscar broadcastNov 23, 2013 5:37 pm - LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres has high aspirations for her second time around hosting the Oscars. “It reached the world,” the talk show host said of her well-received 20...
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DVD previews: ‘Jobs,’ ‘Red 2’Nov 23, 2013 5:00 am - Here’s a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 26: “Jobs” (PG-13, 127 minutes, Universal): A dramatization of the life of Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs (A...
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Vince Vaughn focusing on family-friendly fareNov 22, 2013 3:28 pm - LOS ANGELES — In the new movie “Delivery Man,” Vince Vaughn plays a sperm donor who learns he’s fathered more than 500 kids. In the past, that kind of scenario might ha...