Movies
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'Kingsman' sequel an action-packed but preposterous horror/spy mashupSep 20, 2017 6:00 am - You can tell an action movie has jumped the sprocket holes when its best scene offers peacock-attired Elton John going full-out Kung Fu Panda all over a poor villainous ...
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Watch six films, vote on your favorite at Elgin Short Film FestivalSep 19, 2017 11:00 pm - On Saturday, Sept. 23, the Elgin Short Film Festival will return for its ninth year to the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. The festival has drawn film entries from ar...
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How Parvesh Cheena went from Naperville 'class clown' to 'Tiger Hunter' movieSep 19, 2017 5:00 am - Parvesh Cheena blames himself for the extra takes and time it took to shoot a bedroom scene with his fellow Indian actors during their new movie "The Tiger Hunter." The ...
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Box office top 20: 'It' totals $218M in two weeks
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The horror hit "It" topped the North American box office for the second straight week with $60.1 million, bringing its two-week domestic total to $218.8 ...
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Real-life road trip helped 'Brad's Status' actors bondSep 18, 2017 6:00 am - TORONTO - Ben Stiller thought the best way to prepare for his role as a dad taking his son on a college tour in the film "Brad's Status" was to take the actor playing hi...
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The absolutely insane last 30 minutes of 'mother!'Sep 17, 2017 7:29 am - Have you seen "mother!" yet? If not (and if you plan to), stop reading, because we're about to take a deep dive into the movie's finale, when an intimate psychological t...
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'It' stomps 'Mother' with $60M in its second week
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Michelle Pfeiffer takes 'leap of faith' to star in 'mother!'Sep 16, 2017 6:00 am - When Michelle Pfeiffer first read Darren Aronofsky's script for “mother!” she had an understandable initial reaction. “I thought: What ... is this?” recalls Pfeiffer. Ar...
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Brutal 'American Assassin' kickstarts new action heroSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - Mitch Rapp is an action hero in the vein of Jack Ryan or John McClane: an impossibly tough and determined everyday guy out to save the world. Dylan O'Brien brings a yout...
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'Rebel in the Rye' a cliched portrait of novelist J.D. SalingerSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - It is ironic that films about trailblazing artists are so often filled with cliches. Reclusive author J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) famously forbade anyone from adapting his...