Movies
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Dann Gire predicts Sunday's Oscar winnersFeb 25, 2016 10:00 pm - Let's get right to the most confounding, hair-pulling, anybody's guess, head-scratching, anything-goes Oscar category of the year: Best Picture. Nine times out of the la...
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'Gods of Egypt' plagued with poor plotting, cheesy effectsFeb 25, 2016 4:00 pm - Could the timing be any worse for a movie with a diversity problem as extensive as "Gods of Egypt"? Only two days before #OscarsSoWhite Sunday, a movie comes out set in ...
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Numbers reveal movies with diverse casts make more money
Feb 25, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A UCLA study has found that films and television shows whose casts roughly reflect the nation's racial and ethnic diversity post the highest box offic...
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Reel life: Former Hoffman Estates actor on the big screen this weekendFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Actor and former Hoffman Estates resident Jeff Glover can be seen as a police officer in the crime thriller “Triple 9” opening this weekend...
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Great cast juggles confusing plot in ambitious 'Triple 9'Feb 25, 2016 4:00 am - “Triple 9” has everything going for it, and that's its biggest handicap. This tale of gangsters and crooked cops in Atlanta has got a murderer's row of acting talent — C...
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'A War' puts the madness in a gray areaFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Danish army commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbaek), the protagonist in Tobias Lindholm's courtroom drama "A War," should have requested a competent trial attorney. "A W...
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Flawed 'Jack' has an obviously genuine heartFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - The autism-themed drama "Jack of the Red Hearts" has a big heart and the best of intentions. But its story builds upon the shaky and not completely convincing premise th...
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'Eddie' likable but cliched sports underdog comedyFeb 24, 2016 9:00 am - "You don't give up, do you?" says former ski jumper Bronson Peary to wannabe Olympic ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards. No, he doesn't. Neither does Dexter Fletcher's o...
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Frustrating finale caps off clunky 'X-Files' revivalFeb 24, 2016 6:22 am - Fox's six-episode revival of "The X-Files" ended Monday with, apparently, the promise of more to come. I'm not sure I want more. The finale gave us an intriguing notion:...
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Oscar predictions: What will win and what should win