Movies
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The problem with Chris Hemsworth's stunt casting in 'Ghostbusters'Jul 25, 2016 5:00 am - Isn't it strange that a noncomedic actor has one of the funniest roles in “Ghostbusters”? Aside from Kate McKinnon, playing a bonkers scientist with endless facial tics,...
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'Star Trek Beyond' soars with $59.6M at weekend box office
Jul 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek Beyond" has landed atop the weekend box office. Paramount's latest outing with the Starship Enterprise soared to $59.6 million in domestic ticke...
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Original 'Planet of the Apes' back, Blue Whiskey film fest turns 7Jul 22, 2016 6:00 am - Blue Whiskey No. 7 The seventh annual Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival runs July 24 to 31. And it's moved to the Randhurst 12 theaters in Mount Prospect. "Randhurs...
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'Cafe Society' demonstrates flashes of director AllenJul 22, 2016 5:45 am - Woody Allen's "Cafe Society" opens with a garish blast of aquamarine: a tropical-hued art deco tableau set at a cocktail party thrown by a Hollywood agent in the 1930s. ...
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'Star Trek' on the big screen, worst to bestJul 22, 2016 5:00 am - Fifty years, 697 TV episodes and, as of this weekend, 13 feature films. “Star Trek” has been part of our lives for a half-century, and it shows no signs of going away. A...
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'Ice Age' franchise has run its courseJul 21, 2016 11:00 am - "Ice Age: Collision Course," the fifth installment in the 14-year-long saga of animated prehistoric animals, will, with any luck, also be the last. Lazy, scattershot and...
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Humorous, engaging 'Trek' reboot goes 'Beyond' with chases, fights and explosionsJul 21, 2016 10:15 am - The joys of “Star Trek Beyond” include more mano-a-alieno fights than an intergalactic WWE cage match, an interplanetary bromance between Spock and Kirk, a kung-fuing ne...
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'Mr. Robot,' 'Suicide Squad' debut in VR form at Comic-Con
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Science fiction thriller 'Beta Test' needs tech supportJul 21, 2016 5:15 am - In the near-future science fiction thriller "Beta Test," video game wizard Max Troy (producer Larenz Tate) receives a mysterious package: a first-person shooter game in ...
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Filmmaker juggles mind-boggling conspiracy theories in 'Hillary's America'Jul 21, 2016 5:15 am - Perhaps the best way to endure Dinesh D'Souza's bumpy, off-the-rails train to Paranoia Town would be to imagine that Mel Brooks or Monty Python directed "Hillary's Ameri...