Movies
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DVD previews: ‘Orchestra of Exiles,’ Django Unchained’Apr 13, 2013 5:48 am - Coming April 14-16 “Orchestra of Exiles” (unrated, 85 minutes, First Run Features): Josh Aronson’s film shows how the great violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved as many as...
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New local Holocaust film premiers at OaktonApr 12, 2013 2:35 pm - “Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home,” a one-hour documentary by Ethan Bensiger, premiers 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oakton Community College’s Skokie campus. In the late 1930s...
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Arlington Heights dine-in cinema aims for late May openingApr 12, 2013 11:02 am - Star Cinema Grill, the forthcoming dine-in movie theater in downtown Arlington Heights, aims to be fully operational by the summer movie season but hasn’t yet named a sp...
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Chicago critics group brings film fest to RosemontApr 12, 2013 6:00 am - The members of the Chicago Film Critics Association see themselves not just as critics, but as advocates. Advocates of art over commerce. Advocates of personal, innovat...
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'Disconnect' a well-cast cautionary taleApr 11, 2013 6:00 am - It's a given at multiplexes these days that despite switch-off-your-cell-phone announcements and the occasional grumbling protest, whatever's on-screen will have to comp...
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Boyle's 'Trance' a heady thriller laced with violenceApr 11, 2013 6:00 am - I had really hoped to see Danny Boyle's mind-twisting crime thriller "Trance" a few more hundred times before I reviewed it, just to make sure I understood it better, an...
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'Company' doesn't drum up the tension it needsApr 11, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "The Company You Keep" It's no "Three Days of the Condor." Maybe a day and-a-half. Two days tops of Robert Redford's 1975 spy thriller in which h...
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Feel-good '42' steals a base for social justiceApr 11, 2013 4:00 am - "42" is an old-fashioned sports underdog drama that follows the historic, inspirational story of Jackie Robinson, the first black ballplayer to break into the lily-white...
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FDR drama, Cary Grant collection out on DVDApr 10, 2013 11:00 pm - “Hyde Park on Hudson” Bill Murray gives one of his best performances of his career as Franklin D. Roosevelt in this film. It offers a view of the president outside...
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‘Evil Dead’ rises again with $26M box-office stakeApr 08, 2013 7:47 am - LOS ANGELES — Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office. The demonic horror remake “Evil Dead” debuted a...