Movies
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Clooney's 'Ides' to open Venice film festAug 30, 2011 10:00 am - VENICE, Italy — George Clooney's “The Ides of March” opens a star-studded Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, and fans will also see two other Hollywood actor/directors, ...
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Denise Richards: Suburban upbringing kept me groundedAug 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Downers Grove native talks about her new book
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Soggy weekend soaks box office numbersAug 29, 2011 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — “The Help” remained Hollywood's top draw with $14.3 million on a slow late-summer weekend whose business was even more sluggish as many East Coast theaters...
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Chinese film industry ‘growing like a rocket ship’Aug 27, 2011 6:00 am - Bruce Willis’s mob hit-man travels to the future in next year’s movie “Looper.” Thanks to backing from Beijing’s DMG Entertainment, that future is in China. DMG funded t...
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Hitchcock's 'Legacy of Suspense' celebrated on DVDAug 26, 2011 6:00 am - “Alfred Hitchcock: Legacy of Suspense” Alfred Hitchcock started directing silent films in 1927, and his many movies have stood the test of time. For fans of the ma...
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Rudd's charm drives 'Our Idiot Brother'Aug 25, 2011 6:00 am - "Our Idiot Brother" is a pleasant, innocuous little comedy given extra bounce and life by Paul Rudd's charming and fluid performance as an idealistic man whose heart exc...
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Silly, but solid action propels 'Colombiana'Aug 25, 2011 12:00 am - A brawny B-action picture with a gorgeous, graceful woman wreaking havoc at its center: Yup, "Colombiana" is a Luc Besson movie. The director of "La Femme Nikita" and ...
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Suburban teens win local Film FestAug 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Teens from Arlington Heights and Oak Park won the top three awards in the fifth annual Teen Film Fest sponsored by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library last Friday. Ro...
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'Dark' remake an all-too-familiar creature featureAug 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Weirdly enough, the scariest made-for-TV movies ever created come from the 1970s: 1. "The Night Stalker" (1972), with Darren McGavin as a sartorially challenged reporte...
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'Scarface' made its mark on Al PacinoAug 24, 2011 3:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Al Pacino says he got burned while making “Scarface.” Literally, he grabbed the hot barrel of a gun that had just shot 30 rounds during one of Tony Montana...