Movies
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Key and Peele's cat caper 'Keanu' challenges racial stereotypesApr 28, 2016 6:00 pm - In the first film carried entirely by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the creators of the recently shuttered sketch-comedy show “Key and Peele” take a slender idea ...
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Playstation premise doesn't pay off for 'Ratchet'Apr 28, 2016 6:00 am - If have young kids, you've probably lowered your expectations for acceptable family-friendly entertainment. From the sea of animated options, you know that few movies wi...
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Half-baked comedy 'Dough' fails to riseApr 28, 2016 5:15 am - The title "Dough" offers a double meaning in John Goldschmidt's stylistically unstable culture-clash comedy about an old-school Jewish baker, curmudgeonly widower Nat Da...
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Insipid, tasteless 'Mother's Day' comedy a waste of talentApr 28, 2016 5:15 am - Warning: Side effects of watching Garry Marshall's "Mother's Day" may include, but are not limited to, symptoms similar to an overdose of artificial sweeteners. I can't ...
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Reel life: 'Meddler' creator talks truth, mom and griefApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Actress, writer, director Lorene Scafaria, 37, is best known for her bitey adapted screenplay to “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.” In 2012, Scafaria, Lemont native Dia...
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'Papa' not a novel approach to Hemingway or his workApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Bob Yari's "Papa: Hemingway in Cuba" is the first Hollywood movie to be shot in Cuba since its 1959 revolution, It's such an emotionally vacant and sterile work of drama...
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'Meddler' a comic drama full of AARPish joyApr 27, 2016 11:15 am - Marnie Minervini is a champion meddler. She can really put the pedal to the meddle. She calls her poor TV writer daughter Lori almost hourly, leaving a trail of phone me...
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Met Gala documentary spotlights Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as artApr 27, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The opening seconds of the trailer for “The First Monday in May,” the new documentary about the dizzyingly star-studded Met Gala, show pop star Rihanna tossin...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Jungle Book' overpowers 'Huntsman'
Apr 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even with its star-studded cast of Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" proved to be no co...
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Young Irish star of 'Sing Street' looks forward, while director looks backApr 25, 2016 6:00 am - "Sing Street" runs two ways. For Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, the star of the new movie musical about a plucky Irish teenager who starts a band, the film is just the first step i...