Movies
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Grow up already! Sandler and the boys childish as everJul 11, 2013 9:45 am - LOS ANGELES — It would be dishonest to call “Grown Ups 2” the most repellent high-profile comedy in recent memory. But that's largely because few moviegoers have memorie...
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'Stardom' doc grabs the limelightJul 11, 2013 6:00 am - Mini-review: 'Twenty Feet From Stardom' Legendary singer Darlene Love had been busy cleaning someone's bathroom when she heard her own voice coming from a radio playing...
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Humans match machines for robotic personalities in noisy 'Rim'Jul 11, 2013 6:00 am - Fantasy/horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro got his wish for "Pacific Rim." He wanted to make it for the 10-year-olds in all of us. You know, the 10-year-olds who don't...
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Adrian Grenier on drug documentary, 'Entourage' encoreJul 10, 2013 5:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Though his party boy character Vincent Chase on all eight seasons of “Entourage” savored life in the limelight, Adrian Grenier says he's quite content to b...
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‘Despicable Me 2’ routs ‘Ranger’Jul 08, 2013 10:19 am - NEW YORK — The minions of “Despicable Me 2” ran away with the July Fourth box office, leaving the Johnny Depp Western “The Lone Ranger” in the dust. According to studio ...
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Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ resurrects the Kaiju filmJul 08, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The appeal of “Pacific Rim” isn’t complicated. Like the kind of boyhood fantasy that delights in flying men and relishes dreams of dinosaurs, “Pacific Rim,” t...
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Oscar winners Rash, Faxon make directorial debutJul 07, 2013 6:00 am - PARK CITY, Utah — Way, way back before they were Oscar winners, back when they were honing their skills as members of The Groundlings comedy troupe, Nat Faxon and Jim Ra...
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Dine-in theater now open in downtown Arlington HeightsJul 06, 2013 12:34 pm - Star Cinema Grill, a new dine-in movie theater in downtown Arlington Heights, is now open at 53 S. Evergreen St. Nearly every part of the former Arlington Theaters, whic...
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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 ...