Movies
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'My Little Pony: The Movie' awash in sweetness and sparkleOct 05, 2017 4:00 pm - Lollipop-sweet and rainbow-bright, the four-legged gal pals of Ponyville go clippity-clopping from the small screen to the big in "My Little Pony: The Movie." With its o...
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'Blade Runner' movie trailers should offer spoiler alerts, Dann saysOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - At Chicago press screenings for “Blade Runner 2049” last week, a Warner Bros. representative read a request from director Denis Villeneuve asking critics to preserve the...
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'Lucky' a love letter to late Harry Dean StantonOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - “Harry Dean Stanton Is Lucky,” announces the trailer of the new film by John Carroll Lynch. That sentence means more than it sounds. Yes, Stanton, the wonderful actor wi...
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Liam Neeson's 'Mark Felt' commands underwhelming Watergate dramaOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - In the fact-based drama "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House," Liam Neeson plays a powerful person with a particular set of skills. As second-in-command ...
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Romance, survival mix in 'The Mountain Between Us'Oct 05, 2017 6:00 am - "The Mountain Between Us" is about two strangers who survive a plane crash only to end up in the unforgiving snowy Utah mountains, with no cell reception and precious li...
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'Osiris Child' falls prey to phony-looking monsters, bad dialogueOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - It begins as a hard-bitten science-fiction survival epic with blood, beatings and marauding monsters. It ends as a weird homage to the children's book "Where the Wild Th...
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Glorious new 'Earth' documentary crosses planet to capture 'Amazing Day'Oct 05, 2017 1:00 am - You think your day was rough? At least you didn't have to outrace an army of slithering snakes. Or cross a swollen river filled with hungry predators. Or, despite being ...
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New 'Blade Runner' a mind-blowing replicant of original sci-fi classicOct 02, 2017 11:00 pm - “Blade Runner 2049” explodes on the silver screen as a stunning achievement, a sequel that does far more than merely recycle elements from Ridley Scott's 1982 original s...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Kingsman' sequel takes No. 1 by a hair
Oct 02, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - In a Monday box office twist, "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" landed in the top spot after Sunday estimates had pegged the film for third place behind "It" a...
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Dann Gire's 5 films to watch out for this fallOct 01, 2017 7:15 am - 1. “Justice League” (Nov. 17) — Can the DC Comics universe parallel the success of Marvel's “Avengers” with its all-star superhero team? Or will it go the way of Sup...