Movies
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'Certain Women' offers candid glimpses of life, landscapeOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - Over her 20-year career, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has carved out a singular, determinedly off-center space in the cinematic landscape, working in sometimes epic scale (...
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Spy comedy 'Keeping Up' plays it safe, delivering few laughsOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - Best known as the brooding protagonist of AMC's "Mad Men," Jon Hamm is also a gifted comic actor. Hamm first hinted at this potential in the web series "Between Two Fern...
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Celebrate Halloween with film classicsOct 18, 2016 11:00 pm - Gorton Community Center hosts Gorton Ghoulish Feature Fest, including the family-friendly Haunted Grotto and well-loved film classics centered on the Halloween theme. T...
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Well-timed jolts keep 'Ouija' from being just a bored gameOct 18, 2016 11:00 pm - Outside of "Tyler Perry's Boo!," we don't have many Halloween movies on the docket this month, and that puts a premium on the jumps, jolts and shocks effectively finesse...
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A-minus at Loyola Academy fueled 'Westworld' creatorOct 18, 2016 5:00 am - An A-minus on a freshman high school creative writing assignment may not seem like such a big deal, but for future filmmaker Jonathan Nolan, that grade changed his life....
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Short films for 'Nightmare' to benefit South Elgin animal shelterOct 18, 2016 1:00 am - Besides zombies and scary stuff, this week's Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin will give visitors a chance to benefit a good cause. The short films "The Devil Cat" an...
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Florida theater chain buys Arlington Heights' Star Cinema GrillOct 18, 2016 1:00 am - Florida-based Paragon Theaters has acquired Star Cinema Grill movie theater in downtown Arlington Heights and added several upgrades for moviegoers. The theater, which i...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Accountant' adds $24.7 million
Oct 17, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Ben Affleck thriller "The Accountant" tallied up a healthy launch at the box office, earning $24.7 million in its first days in theaters, pushing ...
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In its own off-kilter way, 'The Accountant' is a hopeful movie about autismOct 16, 2016 7:17 am - This post discusses the plot of "The Accountant," but not really the elements that are important to the thriller-y bits. • • • This has been a moviegoing season full of ...
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Affleck's 'The Accountant' tops charts with $24.7 million