Movies
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'Titanic' actor Bill Paxton dies at age 61Feb 26, 2017 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) — A family representative says prolific and charismatic actor Bill Paxton, who played an astronaut in “Apollo 13” and a treasure hunter in “Titanic,” ha...
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'The Lego Batman Movie' can't escape the weight of Batman's historyFeb 25, 2017 6:23 am - Plenty of movie franchises run into trouble on the second go-round, when a sequel tries to recapture the precise magic of an original and fails to find its own niche. "T...
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Norridge native becomes next Walt Disney with Oscar-nominated 'Moana'Feb 25, 2017 12:00 am - John Musker grew up in Norridge, watching and loving Walt Disney movies at Park Ridge's Pickwick Theatre and Chicago's Mercury Theater. He knows exactly where he was the...
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'Bitter Harvest' reduces Ukrainian tragedy to melodramatic mushFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - The Holodomor - an early 1930s famine in which millions of people in Ukraine are said to have died when their foodstuffs were confiscated by the Soviet government under ...
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Who gets an Oscar? Dann Gire has some ideasFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - The ABCs of Oscar I'll be discussing the 89th Academy Awards live on ABC 7's morning news during the 8 a.m. hour Sunday, Feb. 26. Be sure to tune in. And, by the way, yo...
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One Earth Film Festival showcases community-based conservation stories in 5 filmsFeb 23, 2017 10:00 pm - The One Earth Film Festival continues to use the power of film to shed light on the environmental challenges of the day - and to highlight promising solutions. This year...
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#OscarsSoLaLa? Dann Gire predicts cutting-edge musical will win bigFeb 23, 2017 5:00 am - The big question that will be answered during Sunday's 89th Academy Awards is this: How much of an impact will the #OscarsSoWhite campaign have in influencing the 6,687 ...
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'Rock Dog' a handsome, simple animated fantasy for kidsFeb 23, 2017 5:00 am - "Zootopia" it's not. The animated feature "Rock Dog" comes from a graphic novel "Tibetan Rock Dog," created by popular Chinese rock star Zheng Jun for his young daughter...
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'Gifts' a fresh, gutsy approach to zombie apocalypse moviesFeb 23, 2017 5:00 am - "The Girl With All the Gifts" finds a fresh, gutsy approach to the zombie virus apocalypse movie, a film genre so shopworn and recycled that recent incarnations, such as...
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'Kedi' a cat-egorically lovable feline documentaryFeb 23, 2017 5:00 am - Without cats, the city of Istanbul would lose part of its soul. That's one of many poetically grandiose assertions to be found in Ceyda Torun's lovable, feline-friendly ...