Movies
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DVD previewsDec 01, 2012 4:33 am - Coming Dec. 4 “The Dark Knight Rises” (PG-13, 164 minutes, Warner Home Video): Christopher Nolan has made a completely satisfying movie, one steeped enough in self-conta...
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Seth MacFarlane surprises film students with Oscar contestNov 30, 2012 2:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Oscar host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him onstage at the Academy Awards. The “Family Guy” creator made a surprise appearance at U...
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Stuntman, documentarian among early Oscar honoreesNov 30, 2012 10:22 am - LOS ANGELES — The honorary Oscar winners at the 4th annual Governors Awards include a stuntman who broke 56 bones during his performing career, a documentarian who has m...
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Nearing 50, a heightened perspective for PittNov 30, 2012 5:00 am - NEW YORK — The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with the passa...
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'Expendables 2' explodes on DVDNov 29, 2012 10:00 pm - “The Expendables 2” Viewers know what they're in for when the most famous action stars of the 1980s — including Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarz...
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Graphic violence punctuates talky, world-weary mob dramaNov 29, 2012 5:00 am - Andrew Dominik's character-driven, art-house gangster drama "Killing Them Softly" clocks in at a relatively brief 97 minutes, yet still feels as if its opening and closi...
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New Schaumburg theater tries out 5-DNov 29, 2012 5:00 am - 5-D debuts! What's the big deal with 3-D? How about 4-D? Better yet, 5-D! Yep, the new PIX 5-D Cinema opened for business this week at the Woodfield Shopping Mall in S...
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'Collection' a gory, gruesome, graphic horror flickNov 29, 2012 4:00 am - I had lunch many years ago in Chicago with novelist Stephen King, who told me something he has repeated to others: "I try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I c...
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China film studios plan Shanghai stock offeringsNov 28, 2012 6:20 am - HONG KONG — Two big Chinese state-owned film studios are planning to sell shares on the Shanghai stock exchange in a sign of Beijing’s desire to build a film industry th...
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‘Moonrise,’ ‘Silver Linings’ lead Spirit AwardsNov 27, 2012 1:02 pm - LOS ANGELES — The oddball romances “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Silver Linings Playbook” picked up five nominations each Tuesday to lead the Spirit Awards honoring independen...