Movies
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DVD previews: ‘Admission,’ ‘Dead Man Down’Jul 06, 2013 6:24 am - Here’s a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, July 9: “Admission” (PG-13, 110 minutes, Universal): In this off-kilter charmer, Jeremiah Balakian (played by Nat Wolff) is a h...
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Depp at 50: ‘Just happy to still be around’Jul 05, 2013 11:30 am - SANTA FE, N.M. — It may be difficult to separate Johnny Depp from his “Pirates” character Jack Sparrow, but the actor recalls a time before the boozy buccaneer became a ...
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Tonto: An upgrade or just an updated stereotype?Jul 04, 2013 7:00 am - Just in time for the birthday of the nation that was founded on the decimation of its native inhabitants, Johnny Depp leaps onto 3,700 theaters across the United States ...
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'Bartender' doc mixes right ingredientsJul 04, 2013 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'Hey Bartender' As someone whose younger brother died an alcoholic at 47, I am probably more sensitive about movies pushing booze than most filmgoers might...
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'Way, Way Back' radiates charm, comedyJul 04, 2013 5:30 am - One of most pain-filled performances I have ever seen in the movies comes from young actor Liam James as a teenager struggling to survive adolescence in the poignant and...
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Gandolfini leaves bulk of $70M estate to kidsJul 03, 2013 8:51 pm - NEW YORK — James Gandolfini left the bulk of his estimated $70 million estate to his 13-year-old son and infant daughter. The late star of HBO’s “The Sopranos” left mill...
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‘Scandal’ star Kerry Washington wedsJul 03, 2013 8:50 pm - LOS ANGELES — No “Scandal” here: Kerry Washington is a newlywed. The star of the TV’s “Scandal” married professional football player Nnamdi Asomugha (NAHM’-dee AH’-suhm-...
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“World War Z” author Max Brooks coming to HarperJul 03, 2013 9:13 am - Max Brooks, the author of two best-selling books about zombies, is coming to Harper College in Palatine for an appearance at 7 p.m. Friday, July 12, at the Performing Ar...
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'Let Me Explain' a comedy concert with HartJul 03, 2013 5:00 am - "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" repackages one of the comedian's sold-out stand-up sets at Madison Square Garden, so there's an understandable compulsion to want to dislike...
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Depp rides off with exhausting, overdone 'Ranger'Jul 02, 2013 5:30 am - If truth-in-advertising laws could be applied to movie titles, Gore Verbinski's overblown, revisionist western comedy “The Lone Ranger” would be called “Tonto and the Lo...