Movies
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It's 'About Time' a romantic fantasy like this came alongOct 31, 2013 6:00 am - @X BTO Byline attribution italic:dgire@dailyherald.com I have one major misgiving about Richard Curtis' romantic fantasy "About Time," and that involves the innocently ...
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Visually stunning 'Ender's Game' really an ethics lesson in da-skiesOct 31, 2013 6:00 am - The idea that humanity banks its entire future on some spunky junior high kids to win a potential intergalactic war with buglike aliens borders on the ludicrous. Yet, G...
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Steenburgen trumps quartet of aging stars in Sin City comedyOct 31, 2013 6:00 am - "Have any drugs, man?" a sexy young woman asks aging senior citizen Archie. "Does Lipitor count?" Archie replies. Cue the Viagra jokes and comic references to replaced...
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'Free Birds' serves up helping of funOct 31, 2013 5:30 am - Finally, there's a movie vegetarian parents can enjoy with their impressionable offspring. The animated adventure "Free Birds" follows a couple of modern-day turkeys who...
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Mediocre 'Diana' no royal romantic treatOct 31, 2013 5:30 am - Let's start with the relatively good news: "Diana," a new biopic about the last two years of Princess Diana's life, is not nearly as horrendous as some of the reviews in...
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Complicated 'Darlings' awash in delicious ambiguitiesOct 31, 2013 5:30 am - The phrase "it's complicated" appears more than once in "Kill Your Darlings," having nothing to do with Facebook relationship-status updates. It's almost the movie's sig...
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Emile Hirsch to play John Belushi in biopicOct 29, 2013 9:03 am - NEW YORK — Emile Hirsch will play John Belushi in a biopic on the comedian. Production company Film 360 confirmed Monday the casting of Hirsch in the currently untitled...
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Des Plaines native’s writing just what doctor orderedOct 29, 2013 5:30 am - The way James Kahn figures it, he became a doctor to support his writing habit. The Des Plaines native has written original novels, such as his New World trilogy, short ...
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Alec Baldwin on ‘fetid septic tank’ movie bizOct 28, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — In “Seduced and Abandoned,” Alec Baldwin and James Toback present a portrait of today’s movie business and an elegy to what it once was. In person, Baldwin’s ...
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'Bad Grandpa' sinks 'Gravity' to top box officeOct 27, 2013 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Apparently astronauts are no match for Jackass. Paramount's “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” topped the weekend box office with $32 million, according to st...