Movies
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Gory medieval drama puts the 'grim' in 'Pilgrimage'Aug 11, 2017 6:00 am - At the start of Brendan Muldowney's blood-soaked Irish religious drama "Pilgrimage," disbelievers in 55 A.D. stone to death a Christian martyr with such accurate headsho...
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Conant High grad channels Doc Brown for rap parody 'I (Heart) Juliet'Aug 10, 2017 6:00 am - Elk Grove Village actor and voice-over artist Joe Bianco, 29, had never seen all of Robert Zemeckis' “Back to the Future” trilogy. Then the Conant High School grad won t...
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'The Nut Job 2' serves up stale jokes, slapstickAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - The animated film "The Nut Job" and its new sequel, like many a movie before them with the theme of man vs. nature, depicts a world in which grotesque humans are ultimat...
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'Annabelle: Creation' makes for a scary good horror sequelAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - If we have learned anything from the Cooking Channel, it's that talent isn't defined by the ingredients you use but what you do with them. By that measure, director Davi...
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'Whose Streets?' documentary revisits Ferguson riots with social media journalismAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - A single tweet runs across the screen near the beginning of the documentary "Whose Streets?" "I just saw someone die" On Aug. 9, 2014, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguso...
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Murder mystery 'Wind River' a thoughtful, less-exciting police proceduralAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - Don't expect "Wind River" to pack the crackling tension and startling revelations of "Sicario," or even the intellectual clash of wills of "Hell or High Water." All thre...
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Harrelson's erratic father figure highlights transparent 'Glass Castle'Aug 09, 2017 10:00 am - In the biographical drama "The Glass Castle," Jeannette Walls' father Rex says he'll build his family's dream home, a glass castle, a long way from cities so everyone ca...
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Patriotic 'Wolf Warrior 2' is China's biggest domestic film
Aug 09, 2017 7:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - A patriotic film reportedly inspired by evacuations of Chinese civilians in Libya and Yemen has become China's biggest-ever grossing domestic movie. By We...
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Widescreen: Why I choose my iPhone over the big screenAug 09, 2017 6:00 am - Two years ago, after a particularly infuriating trip to see "Avengers: Age of Ultron" that ended 15 minutes into the film due to projection problems, I asked if you woul...
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Box office top 20: 'Dark Tower,' 'Detroit' struggle