Movies
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New on DVD: 'Joseph Campbell and the The Power of Myth', 'Spartacus'Sep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - "Joseph Campbell and the The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers" When scholar Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers sat down to discuss Campbell's life work, the...
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Actor, director recall harrowing shoot on 'Buried'Sep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Don't feel bummed if you want to see Ryan Reynolds' new thriller "Buried" but it only opens this weekend in Chicago and Evanston. "Buried" will expand throughout the sub...
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Emma Stone should be on short list for Oscar nomineesSep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - I have seen the teen sex comedy "Easy A" three times already, and I'm now convinced that Emma Stone's performance should be on the shortlist of Oscar nominees for best a...
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Dull 'You Again' revisits high school horrorsSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - "High school was a horror movie!" Marni shrieks. "And this weekend was the sequel!" Actually, if Marni could see her own movie "You Again," she would realize high school...
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NY judge: 'Disturbia' did not copy short storySep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A federal judge in New York has dismissed a copyright lawsuit that claimed the 2007 thriller "Disturbia" ripped off Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Rear Window."...
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Greed isn't good: 'Wall Street' sequel sells outSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - In Oliver Stone's sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," financial uber-villain Gordon Gekko goes soft, the characters around him go soft in the head, and the directo...
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'Legend of the Guardians' is one strange birdSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" is one strange bird. It's an animated fantasy obviously intended for children, yet it depicts genocidal violence perpetra...
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John 'Junior' Gotti agrees to movie about his lifeSep 21, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood has produced no shortage of movies and TV shows about the mob, but this one's coming straight from the most high-profile source imaginable: John...
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Local film fests offer features and shorts from across the globeSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Fall has arrived and you know what that means, right? Film festivals! As sure as the leaves turn red, pumpkins pop up and cooler weather invades the Midwest, movie festi...
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'Town' is talk of box office, opening with $23.8 mil.Sep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "The Town" is the talk of the box office, opening with $23.8 million to take the No. 1 spot. The intense Warner Bros. drama about bank robbers in an insul...