Movies
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How you can see the first trailer for the new 'Star Wars'Nov 24, 2014 12:00 am - The longest lines outside theaters this Thanksgiving weekend may be for the new “Star Wars” trailer. Director J.J. Abrams on Monday confirmed the release plans on Twitte...
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Holiday Homecoming and Electric Christmas Parade light up St. CharlesNov 23, 2014 10:00 pm - Nothing says Christmas like a street lit up by thousands of Christmas lights. At the St. Charles Holiday Homecoming and Electric Christmas Parade, visitors can find thei...
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Will serious fare freeze out feel-good films this season?Nov 23, 2014 5:30 am - What do you call soldiers being tortured, bosses being horrible, five armies battling, homosexuals being persecuted, girls being abducted and assassins being recruited? ...
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'Mockingjay, Part 1' opens with $123 millionNov 23, 2014 12:01 am - NEW YORK - "Mockingjay, Part 1" didn't catch fire like the previous installments of "The Hunger Games," but it still had the biggest opening of the year with $123 millio...
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Swank says Jones is a softy and he agreesNov 22, 2014 5:45 am - LOS ANGELES - Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones wears more than one cowboy hat in his new Western, "The Homesman," giving him full control of, well, everything. He co...
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DVD previews: 'November Man,' 'Expendables 3'Nov 22, 2014 5:30 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Nov. 25: "The November Man" (R, 108 minutes, Fox): Roger Donaldson makes efficient hack work of a script adapted from a book by...
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What to watch now that you've seen 'Interstellar'Nov 20, 2014 5:00 am - I saw “Interstellar” two weeks ago and still don't know if I like it. Christopher Nolan's space adventure has big ideas and even bigger emotions — a combination that's r...
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Massive movie poster collection going to auctionNov 20, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK — A massive single-owner collection of vintage movie posters covering nearly the entire history of feature films — from 1907 to the present — is going on the au...
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'Beautiful 3' holds a mirror up to nation's cultureNov 20, 2014 5:00 am - Mini-review: 'America the Beautiful 3: The Sexualization of Our Youth' Chicago filmmaker Darryl Roberts is fairly blunt about what he wants us to take away from his doc ...
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'Homesman' reverses the Western's courseNov 20, 2014 5:00 am - "There's been some trouble about the women hereabouts," says John Lithgow's plains preacher in Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman." The hereabouts is a tiny, hardscrabble se...