Movies
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Movies: Neeson on the 'Run;' 'Cinderella' lush, but lifelessMar 11, 2015 9:00 am - Coming Friday in Time out! Liam Neeson and “Cinderella” battle it out at the box office this weekend. Dann Gire reviews Liam Neeson's new action thriller “Run All Night”...
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Modernizing 'Cinderella' with humanity and the right starsMar 11, 2015 6:00 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Everyone knows the tale of Cinderella. The story of the beautiful girl who is forced into servitude by a wicked stepfamily, transformed for a nig...
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'Maker the Movie' screening in SchaumburgMar 10, 2015 1:00 am - A new documentary film highlighting the "maker movement" will be screened to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at the Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg ...
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Geneva Film Festival expects more than 1,000Mar 09, 2015 11:00 pm - When we think of the silver screen, distinct and beautiful people come to mind, often wearing capes. They speak in clipped phrases. They smoke cigarettes. Sometimes, the...
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Battles against bulge and antibioticsMar 09, 2015 6:00 am - With documentaries like "Food, Inc." and "Fed Up" having made the rounds in recent years, it's tempting to think that the last word has been uttered on how Americans...
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Box office top 20: 'Chappie' leads anemic weekendMar 08, 2015 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Neill Blomkamp's R-rated robot film "Chappie" topped the box office with a lackluster $13.3 million debut, according to final figures Monday, while th...
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'Chappie' tops slow weekend, 'Unfinished Business' tanksMar 07, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - Neither a hyper-intelligent robot nor Vince Vaughn could save the box office this weekend, which is down 38.5 percent from the same weekend last year, acco...
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Author appearances: Veronica Roth comes to the Tivoli March 14Mar 07, 2015 6:00 am - • Children's book author Dav Pilkey and award-winning illustrator Dan Santat present their new book, "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs From Saturn,"...
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DVD previews: 'Night at the Museum,' 'Low Down'Mar 07, 2015 4:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, March 10: "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" (PG, 100 minutes, Fox): Relocating the action from New York's Museum of Nat...
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Not much intelligence, artificial or otherwise, in 'Chappie'Mar 05, 2015 10:00 pm - In “Chappie,” a dystopian robot thriller from South African director Neill Blomkamp (“Elysium”), we're introduced to an awkwardly stiff humanoid with something funny-loo...