Movies
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DVD previewsDec 30, 2012 4:44 am - Coming Jan. 1: “Cosmopolis” (R, 108 minutes, Entertainment One): Robert Pattinson plays 28-year-old billionaire Eric Packer, who decides that his perfectly coiffed ’do ...
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Arlington Heights theater-restaurant on wayDec 28, 2012 9:58 am - Downtown Arlington Heights may be losing out on the current holiday movie season, but now expects to be back in business by summer with a new theater that will include a...
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‘Impossible’ a difficult role for Naomi WattsDec 28, 2012 5:00 am - To play a mother torn from her husband and sons by the 2004 tsunami, Naomi Watts sure wasn’t going Method. The British actress took her partner Liev Schreiber and two s...
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In bite-sized roles, Gandolfini ubiquitous againDec 27, 2012 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — In the five years since “The Sopranos” ended, James Gandolfini has eschewed the spotlight, instead disappearing into a heap of character actor performances th...
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'Zero Dark Thirty' tops Dann Gire's list of best movies of the yearDec 27, 2012 10:00 pm - The "Twilight" series finally bit the dusk. James Bond returned with a vengeance. The Dark Knight rose one last time. It was a very good year for the movies. Here are...
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With ‘Les Miz,’ a new kind of speech for HooperDec 27, 2012 2:59 pm - NEW YORK — Tom Hooper, the director of intimate character studies like the Oscar-winning “The King’s Speech,” the HBO miniseries “John Adams” and the TV drama “Longford,...
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Worst movie of the year? Try 'Joyful Noise'Dec 27, 2012 4:00 am - Reel Life 2012 notes: Ÿ 2012 proved that the No. 1 cause of ruined movie experiences for patrons wasn't rude viewers. Or bad popcorn. Or out-of-focus screens. It's ...
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'Promised Land' a cynical tale of sales and selloutsDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - Gus Van Sant's restrained examination of personal ethics, shady business practices, energy exploitation and community desperation takes the opposite approach from formul...
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'Not Fade Away' chases dream of making it in musicDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - As drummer in a forgotten New Jersey band in the 1960s, David Chase never got close - never even got close to close - to making it in music. Yet from a sound check of hi...
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Hollywood enjoys big year at box officeDec 26, 2012 6:57 am - LOS ANGELES — The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. It’s the fact that the number of tickets sold went up...