Movies
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Movie review: Horror film 'Monster Party' shocking - and awe-ful funnyNov 01, 2018 6:00 am - "Monster Party" - ★ ★ ★ Do you really want to know how horribly comic this horror movie can get? A sleazy guy gives one of those slow, sarcastic claps to young Iris (Vir...
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Movie review: Rami Malek will rock you, even if 'Bohemian Rhapsody' doesn'tOct 31, 2018 9:00 am - “Bohemian Rhapsody” - ★ ★ Where does a preening, pansexual rock god get his powers? The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” traces his sonorous majesty to an unli...
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The depiction of evil in 'Halloween' gets what made the 1978 original so scaryOct 29, 2018 6:00 am - Note: This contains a discussion of plot points from the new "Halloween"; as such, some spoilers appear below. --- "Halloween," which debuted to a staggering $77.5 milli...
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'Halloween' carves up another $32 million to top box office
Oct 28, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Michael Meyers - or is it Jamie Lee Curtis? - can't be stopped. "Halloween" dominated the North American box office for the second straight weekend, carving u...
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Movie guide: 'Mid90s,' 'Johnny English,' 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' open this weekendOct 26, 2018 6:05 pm - Four stars: superior. Three stars: good. Two stars: average. One star: poor. D (drug use), L (language), N (nudity), S (sexual situations, references), V (violence). Rat...
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Q&A: Jonah Hill on toxic masculinity and skateboardingOct 26, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Jonah Hill has always wanted to direct. He worships filmmakers and has treated what he describes as an “accidental” but “wonderful” 15-year acting career a...
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Widescreen tidbits: 'The Fog,' Rockford skaters and hidden horror gemsOct 26, 2018 6:00 am - Everyone has John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis on the brain this year thanks to the “Halloween” revival, including the Music Box Theatre — but they're shunning Michael...
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Robert Forster talks acting on his first Chicago film in 50 yearsOct 26, 2018 5:33 am - Fifty years ago, Robert Forster wrote a page of Chicago's cinematic history as a journalist in Haskell Wexler's classic 1968 Democratic National Convention drama "Medium...
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Suburban grandparents' battle with Alzheimer's inspires filmmaker's 'What They Had'Oct 26, 2018 5:00 am - While continually revising the screenplay to her first feature film “What They Had,” former Hinsdale resident Elizabeth Chomko kept hearing the words of a college profes...
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Movie review: Rupert Everett embodies Oscar Wilde in decline for 'The Happy Prince'Oct 25, 2018 8:00 am - “The Happy Prince” - ★ ★ ½ Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett's account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone w...