Movies
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Melodrama bogs down overly complicated 'The Words'Sep 06, 2012 6:00 am - For a movie about writing, about the transporting nature of a compelling narrative and the importance of crafting something timeless and true, "The Words" is needlessly ...
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International films at CLCSep 05, 2012 3:33 pm - Four well-known international films will be presented for free on Friday nights this fall by the College of Lake County Center for International Education. The films beg...
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Foreign film series opens Friday at ECCSep 04, 2012 2:00 pm - Screen the best in foreign cinema this fall during the Elgin Community College Humanities Center’s International Film Series. Held the first and second Friday of each m...
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Mt. Prospect filmmaker fulfills teenage dreamSep 03, 2012 11:00 pm - "It was one of those secret promises I made as a teenager at Prospect High School," Matt Glasson said. "I'm going to make a feature film!" And so he did. The Mount Prosp...
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'The Possession' takes hold of box officeSep 03, 2012 10:00 pm - A late-summer horror tale took possession of the weekend box office as Hollywood quietly wound down a busy season that turned out to be not so busy. “The Possession” deb...
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Chicago-born 'Green Mile' actor dead at 54Sep 03, 2012 4:45 pm - LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan was one big, irresistible jumble of contradictions. His presence was formidable, even intimidating: The former bodyguard had a muscul...
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'2016' Obama movie a surprise hitSep 02, 2012 11:00 pm - Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A., Dinesh D'Souza concedes in his documentary "2016: Obama's America." That's as close to moderation as this nutty film gets. A surpris...
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Movie audiences discovering anti-Obama documentary ‘2016’Aug 31, 2012 6:18 pm - LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t backed by any Hollywood movie studio. Reviews were mostly negative. It premiered in Houston, not Los Angeles or New York. And yet despite the unc...
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’At Any Price’ transports Iowa to VeniceAug 31, 2012 5:04 pm - VENICE, Italy — Director Ramin Bahrani’s new film `’At Any Price” functions on two levels: a drama about a family farm’s future set among Iowa’s lush cornfields or a swe...
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Elgin screening of Latino Film Festival favoriteAug 31, 2012 8:00 am - Elgin will be host to a movie screening by the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago next week, and some hope the connection won’t stop there. The center scre...