Movies
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'Ghost in the Shell' feels like a relic of filmmaking's recent pastApr 01, 2017 7:22 am - In movies, as in life, timing isn't everything. It's the only thing. Consider the strange fate of "Ghost in the Shell," the long-awaited live-action adaptation of the 19...
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13th annual Imago Film Festival exploring faith and hopeMar 30, 2017 11:00 pm - The 13th annual Imago Film Festival April 4-8 will offer an intriguing sampling of independent films that use image and story to explore faith and ethics and the journey...
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'Ghost in the Shell' brings anime classic to lifeMar 30, 2017 12:00 pm - Arriving in theaters a bit bruised by accusations of whitewashing and battered by audience expectations ranging from skeptical to sky high, “Ghost in the Shell” winds up...
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'Case For Christ' brings Arlington Heights' Lee Strobel homeMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - 'Case For Christ' brings Strobel home Writer and lecturer Lee Strobel - former Daily Herald metro editor, Chicago Tribune legal affairs editor and a staff member at Will...
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'Zookeeper's Wife' a fascinating Holocaust tale with impossibly perfect heroineMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - There's not a lot of subtlety in "The Zookeeper's Wife." The good guys are beyond virtuous and the bad ones, pure evil. If that makes it easy to pick sides, it doesn't n...
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Buffalo Grove grad leads cast in Indian immigration dramedyMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - No recent film illustrates the late Roger Ebert's assertion that movies are "empathy machines" better than Rucha Humnabadkar's presciently salient English/Hindi comic dr...
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DreamWorks' 'Boss Baby' fires off sweet tale of family tiesMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - Who needs a movie about a tyrannical infant - or an infantile tyrant - anyway? You might be surprised to learn that you do. Although its advertising campaign seems to pr...
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Evil Elsa? 'Frozen' producer reveals film's original endingMar 29, 2017 11:00 pm - Disney's animated phenomenon, "Frozen," may not have been a heartwarming tale of sisterly love if its creators stuck to the film's original planned ending. "Frozen" prod...
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Filmmakers try too hard in retro-slasher tale 'Blackcoat's Daughter'Mar 29, 2017 6:00 am - I don't know what foley artists did to create the sound of a knife penetrating living flesh in Osgood Perkins' horror tale "The Blackcoat's Daughter," but its aural icki...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Beauty' adds $90.4 million in weekend 2
Mar 28, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast" performed even better than expected in its second weekend in theaters, adding $90.4 million to its North A...