Movies
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Raw, realistic cop tale 'End of Watch' worth a lookSep 20, 2012 6:00 am - Frankly, I'm beginning to tire of the "found footage" approach to filmmaking, the "Blair Witch"-inspired movies that pretend someone has shot a bunch of random scenes th...
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Fremd grad's directorial debut a no-frills piece of baseball storytellingSep 20, 2012 6:00 am - Baseball takes a back seat to a prickly, jousty father-daughter relationship in Robert Lorenz's well-crafted directorial debut, "Trouble With the Curve," a funny, punny ...
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'Dredd' a fast-paced work of sci-fi violenceSep 20, 2012 6:00 am - I liked this movie better when it came out earlier this year as "The Raid: Redemption," and featured a bloody, psycho-paced tale about trapped cops struggling to stay al...
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Chicago native Michael Madsen: ‘I am Batman’Sep 20, 2012 5:30 am - Michael Madsen isn’t afraid to touch a stranger’s hair or get emotional while wearing a pair of red snakeskin boots. And if Hollywood folks had any sense, the gruff-talk...
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Sundance to honor film critic Roger EbertSep 19, 2012 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Critic Roger Ebert is receiving an award from Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute for his support of independent cinema. Sundance leaders said Thursday tha...
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Fremd grad partners with Dirty Harry for directorial debutSep 17, 2012 11:00 pm - In Hollywood's Malpaso Production office sit two main chairs. One belongs to Clint Eastwood. The other belongs to Malpaso executive Robert Lorenz, a Fremd High School gr...
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Drive-in’s big metal speakers aren’t going awaySep 17, 2012 5:30 am - Though the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago may be undergoing a switch from film to digital projection, there’s still some old technology that is staying put: th...
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McHenry drive-in holding fundraiser to go digitalSep 17, 2012 5:30 am - The McHenry Outdoor Theater has been in existence since the 1940s, and its new owner hopes it can carry on into the future by converting from film to digital. So it’s fi...
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Nostalgic drive-ins must go digital, tooSep 16, 2012 11:00 pm - At the Cascade Drive-In movie theater in West Chicago, nostalgia abounds. As cars filter in just after 7 p.m., music from the 1950s and 1960s fills the night air, pourin...
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A look at Channing Tatum’s 5 films this yearSep 16, 2012 6:22 am - LOS ANGELES — If it seems like Channing Tatum is everywhere, it’s probably because he is. He’s appeared in five films this year alone, with the latest being this weekend...