Movies
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Screaming fans greet 'Hunger Games' stars at Aurora mallMar 07, 2012 9:00 pm - Team Edward and Team Jacob better watch their backs. Because if it's up to more than 2,000 screaming fans who packed Westfield Fox Valley Mall in Aurora on Wednesday, t...
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Star, camera work provide scary foundation for 'Silent House'Mar 07, 2012 3:00 pm - By Dann Gire Daily Herald film critic dgire@dailyherald.com Any review of the new horror film "Silent House" can't reveal or even suggest what the story is really abo...
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'Poppins' songwriter Sherman dies at 86Mar 06, 2012 1:00 pm - LONDON — How do you sum up the work of songwriter Robert B. Sherman? Try one word: “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” The tongue-twisting term, sung by magical nanny ...
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`Lorax’ cleans up at box office with $70.7 millionMar 04, 2012 3:46 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” raked in all kinds of green, earning $70.7 million in its first weekend to score the biggest box-office debut of the year by far. Th...
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Dr. Seuss finds it easy to be green in 'The Lorax'Mar 02, 2012 5:00 am - Dr. Seuss died in 1991, saving him from the gaudy, big-screen abominations of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) and "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" (2003). These w...
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Weinstein protests R rating of 'Bully' documentaryMar 01, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Fresh off his Oscar glory with “The Artist,” there’s no silence for Harvey Weinstein when it comes to his next film. The famously bellicose producer is prote...
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'Project' an X-ceedingly bad teen comedyMar 01, 2012 5:00 am - One way to look at the raunchy teen sex-and-drugs comedy "Project X" would be to take the classic Chicago movie "Risky Business" and remake it as a "Girls Gone Wild" ama...
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'Tim & Eric' make manic move to the big screenMar 01, 2012 5:00 am - A good example of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's uniquely manic comedy comes early in their first movie, "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie." Tim and Eric, given $1...
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Popular approach wins Oscar for 'Undefeated'Mar 01, 2012 5:00 am - Reel Life review: 'Undefeated' Had Chicago's crack team of documentary makers of "Hoop Dreams" produced the Oscar-winning sports doc "Undefeated," it would have followe...
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'Hugo' spins its magic on DVDFeb 29, 2012 10:00 pm - “Hugo” Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese's terrific film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won five — for art direction, cinematography, sound editing, sound m...