Movies
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Summer dollars rise, attendance dips for HollywoodAug 30, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood is finishing its summer with record revenue but the lowest actual movie attendance in five years. Domestic receipts from the first weekend in Ma...
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Lake County briefsAug 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Watch foreign flicks at CLC Four international films are lined up for a special series on Friday nights during fall semester at College of Lake County. The flicks...
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'Exorcism' has slim box-office lead over 'Takers'Aug 29, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The fright flick "The Last Exorcism" and the heist thriller "Takers" were in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office, according to studi...
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Cross-country trek a lesson in fear for 'Exorcism' directorAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Daniel Stamm's new movie "The Last Exorcism" opens in theaters this weekend. It's a horror tale about the Rev. Cotton Marcus, who confronts what may be a genuine case of...
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Documentary on purported Adams' negatives canceledAug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - FRESNO, Calif. -- Plans to show a documentary film at California State University, Fresno about the discovery of glass negatives purported to be the work of famed nature...
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'Piranha' problems: Studio tipped ending, MPAA botched ratingAug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Piranha's fishy ending If you saw the new comic horror thriller "Piranha 3-D" as I did last weekend, you were probably as bummed as I when the shockeroo ending ca...
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'Takers' take all right, but give nothing in returnAug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - "Takers" ranks as one of the most pretentious, ill-conceived and badly botched heist movies ever made. "We're takers!" shouts Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), leader of a b...
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Director hunts for authenticity in 'Animal Kingdom'Aug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - David Michod is unknown to American audiences, but he's the director of a terrific new crime movie made in Australia. It's titled "Animal Kingdom." The story concerns a ...
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'Untouchables' tops Chicago-made moviesAug 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Dann: Raymond! I was walking to the Lake Street Screening Room in Chicago when I noticed a Wabash parking garage heaped with twisted, smashed cars and huge chunks of bro...
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Con-man minister seeks redemption in 'Last Exorcism'Aug 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Frankly, I am getting really weary of horror movies mounted as first-person pseudo-documentaries shot with nausea-inducing hand-held cameras. Still, if there absolutely ...