Movies
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Laughs live on in Laurel & Hardy DVD setOct 27, 2011 11:00 pm - “Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection” Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made up one of the greatest comedy teams of all time. Fans of the duo can now enjoy 58 of t...
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'Puss' returns in purr-fectly charming animated taleOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - "Puss in Boots" is the cat's meow! With Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek supplying the leading characters' voices, this buckleswashing 3-D animated comedy has tons of t...
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Thrilling performance makes 'Martha' hauntingOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - "Martha Marcy May Marlene" is a tongue twister of a title that makes chilling sense as the film unfolds. In quiet, intimate ways, it is one of the most startling, haunti...
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'Anonymous' suffers from identity crisisOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - Here's a listless historical drama that screams ... no, begs to be a comedy. It's titled "Anonymous" and it has been directed by Roland Emmerich, a German filmmaker mos...
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Great idea botched in 'Time'-ly sci-fi thrillerOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - In the future, time isn't money. Time is life. The unsettling ideas to be found in "In Time," Andrew Niccol's disturbing glimpse of the near future, are the substance ...
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African-made zombie movie rises above Romero rip-offsOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - Reel Life review: 'The Dead' At least when the U.K.'s Ford brothers rip off George Romero's zombie formula - an Armageddon of cannibalistic, shuffling corpses that can ...
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'Rum Diary' struggles with a few demonsOct 26, 2011 11:00 pm - If Batman and the X-Men get prequels, why not Hunter S. Thompson? He was certainly a superhero of a kind, just one whose powers mainly consisted of consuming copious a...
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Subscriber Total Access members meet Dann GireOct 26, 2011 12:00 am - Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire introduced George Clooney's political drama “The Ides of March” at the iPic Theaters in South Barrington Wednesday night. During the e...
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Free “Miss Representation” screeningOct 24, 2011 12:00 am - A free screening of “Miss Representation,” a film that explores how the media’s misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of po...
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`Paranormal Activity 3' scares up $54 millionOct 23, 2011 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — “Paranormal Activity 3” didn't just go bump in the night. It made a ton of noise at the box office with a record-setting, $54 million opening. The third fi...