Movies
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Cinematic stockings runneth over in holiday film seasonNov 22, 2013 5:00 am - Time again to prepare for the annual ritual of Hollywood studios donning Santa suits, visiting our local theaters and stocking their stockings with plenty of Oscar bait....
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Lawrence is Hollywood’s modern everywomanNov 22, 2013 4:30 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — It’s not always easy being an Oscar-winner. When Jennifer Lawrence returned to the set of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” after winning the be...
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McHenry Community College earns sustainability awardNov 21, 2013 6:31 pm - McHenry County College is one of seven Illinois community colleges recently honored for setting and meeting environmental goals on their campuses. The college participa...
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Get in on Classic Cinemas' free holiday moviesNov 21, 2013 5:00 am - Happy Classic holiday! Classic Cinemas, the Downers Grove-based theater chain run by Willis, Shirley and Chris Johnson since 1978, will offer special holiday films in D...
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With 'Nebraska,' Payne enters state of hilarious seriousnessNov 21, 2013 4:45 am - The hilariously serious "Nebraska," photographed in glorious black-and-white, tells the slow-moving story of an elderly man on the cusp of dementia chasing a phony milli...
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Vince Vaughn stretches his comedy wings in 'Delivery Man'Nov 21, 2013 4:45 am - Call it a feel-good comedy. In the formulaic, pro-fatherhood “Delivery Man,” Vince Vaughn's New York meat delivery guy David Wozniak fathers 533 children without even re...
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Oakton highlights Rumbula massacre, Nazis in fictionNov 20, 2013 2:24 pm - Jewish Studies at Oakton is making two free presentations that shed light on the massacre of Jews in the Baltics and the use of Nazi figures in literature at the college...
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Alexander Payne on his life at the moviesNov 19, 2013 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Alexander Payne is equal parts filmmaker and film buff. The Omaha-born filmmaker, for example, found time while premiering his latest, “Nebraska,” at the Can...
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'Hunger Games' sequel fired up with catchy characters, political plotNov 18, 2013 6:00 pm - Not since 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" has the middle chapter in a cinematic series eclipsed the dramatic scope and technical quality of its original while leaving u...
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Keanu Reeves’ ‘47 Ronin’ based on true Japanese storyNov 18, 2013 8:04 am - TOKYO — The director of the Keanu Reeves 3-D film “47 Ronin” says he hopes his adaptation of a true Japanese story becomes a Hollywood blockbuster. Film director Carl Ri...