Movies
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“Dark Money,” the latest documentary to explore the influence of corporate cash on elections, tells its story through the eyes of journalist John S. Adams. The film takes a deep dive into a subject that just might make your blood boil.Jul 26, 2018 6:00 am - “Dark Money” - ★ ★ ½ In movies such as “Citizen Koch” and “Pay 2 Play,” the idea of “corporate personhood” — the notion that businesses are, in a sense, people — is...
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Cartoon 'Teen Titans' send up superheroes, Hollywood in new movieJul 26, 2018 6:00 am - “Teen Titans GO! to the Movies” - ★ ★ ★ When it comes to superhero movies, there's a perception that you've got to choose between DC's gritty, dour offerings or Ma...
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Tom Cruise goes nuclear to save the world in 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout'Jul 25, 2018 11:00 am - “Mission: Impossible - Fallout” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “Fallout” makes an ideal title for Christopher McQuarrie's sixth entry in the “Mission: Impossible” series because Tom Cruise'...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Equalizer 2' beats 'Mamma Mia' by a hair
Jul 23, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "The Equalizer 2" faced off against another sequel, the musical "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" and came out slightly ahead. The Denzel Washington film ...
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See film 'Lost in Detention' at Geneva church FridayJul 22, 2018 11:00 pm - Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva continues its "Friday Flicks" series with the 2011 documentary "Lost in Detention" at 7 p.m. Friday, July 27, in the common roo...
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'Equalizer 2' squeaks past 'Mamma Mia 2' and takes top spot
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See 'Yellow Submarine' in Downers Grove and help support student filmsJul 21, 2018 6:00 am - The After Hours Film Society returns to Downers Grove's Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highland Ave., with a 50th anniversary restoration of “Yellow Submarine,” the psychedelic, a...
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In 'Blindspotting,' simmering tensions with a beatJul 20, 2018 6:00 am - “Blindspotting” - ★ ★ ★ “Blindspotting,” the directorial debut of Carlos Lopez Estrada, stalks the streets of Oakland with a heightened, spoken-word flow, passiona...
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Bo Burnham's impressive 'Eighth Grade' gets high marks for empathyJul 19, 2018 6:00 am - “Eighth Grade” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Not even Joseph Conrad had the courage to venture into that darkest of hearts: middle school. Bo Burnham's “Eighth Grade,” however, plunge...
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'Don't Worry' offers flawed portrait of cartoonist John CallahanJul 19, 2018 6:00 am - “Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot” - ★ ★ ½ Macabre is a word often associated with the late cartoonist John Callahan. He's the man who in his widely published cart...