Movies
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Academy Awards may be hooked on 'Oscar bait'
Feb 24, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - In the Coen brothers' recent 1950s Hollywood satire, "Hail, Caesar!" Ralph Fiennes' ascot-wearing British director Laurence Laurentz is helming a stuffy drawi...
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Coogler, DuVernay to attend Flint event on Oscar night
Feb 24, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Creed" director Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae and other Hollywood celebrities have big plans for Oscar night. But they have nothing to do with...
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Ebertfest lineup filling out with new additions
Feb 23, 2016 6:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The lineup for this year's Ebertfest film festival is starting to fill out with new additions announced over the past week. According to The News-Gazet...
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Will women see a break in Hollywood's 'celluloid ceiling'?Feb 23, 2016 4:59 am - NEW YORK - "Well, the time has come," announced presenter Barbra Streisand at the 2010 Oscars, revealing that Kathryn Bigelow had won the best director prize for "The Hu...
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Plunging into horror of Auschwitz, 'Son of Saul' confoundsFeb 23, 2016 4:54 am - NEW YORK - The power and horror of "Son of Saul," a visceral plunge into the life of a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, has left audiences staggering since it first...
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See new biopic 'Love & Mercy' on life of Brian Wilson MondayFeb 22, 2016 10:00 pm - The St. Charles Regional Effort of the Campaign to Change Direction organization is sponsoring a screening of the new film "Love & Mercy," a biopic about the life of Bri...
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Kids, decorate 'car' for 'Minions' Indoor Drive-In MovieFeb 22, 2016 9:00 am - Palatine Park District presents the annual Indoor Drive-In Movie event for families from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, March 4, at Birchwood Recreation Center, 435 W. Illinois ...
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Study finds a 'whitewashed' Hollywood
Feb 22, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - In one of the most exhaustive reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitew...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Deadpool' stays on top with $56.5M
Feb 22, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The R-rated comic book adaption "Deadpool" remained on top at the box office, earning $56.5 million in its second weekend and bringing its two-week total...
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'Deadpool' dominates again with $55 million in 2nd weekFeb 21, 2016 4:00 pm - NEW YORK - Marvel's R-rated antihero smash "Deadpool" continued to dominate movie theaters over the weekend, earning an estimated $55 million and trouncing a trio of new...