Movies
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DVD previews: 'Godzilla,' 'The Fault in Our Stars'Sep 13, 2014 6:15 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday: Godzilla" (PG-13, 123 minutes, Warner): With Gareth Edwards' reboot of the 1954 Japanese classic (last rebooted in a medioc...
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Falling in love with a talking raccoonSep 12, 2014 6:15 am - "I love that movie!" We say stuff like that all the time, don't we? Hyperbole comes easily when we want to encourage our friends to see and enjoy something that we saw a...
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Gire: Gandolfini, Hardy add sharp focus to crime drama 'The Drop'Sep 11, 2014 5:45 am - The dramatically explosive ending of "The Drop" more than justifies its long, long fuse, resulting in two Big Bangs that create not a moral universe, but a multiverse of...
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'Dolphin Tale 2' a swimming successSep 11, 2014 5:45 am - Containing all the elements that made the 2011 original boy and his dolphin story a hit with audiences and critics, Charles Martin Smith's "Dolphin Tale 2" is another en...
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Gire: From spit-takes to tandem screams, ban these movie clichesSep 11, 2014 5:30 am - 5 visual clichés I hate Here are five more visual crutches I would like to not see for another five years: Actors who inexplicably talk into walls or windows while add...
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SNL vets team up for tears, laughs in 'Skeleton Twins'Sep 11, 2014 5:30 am - Within the first few minutes of the sibling dramedy "The Skeleton Twins," there's a phone call from a hospital informing a woman (Kristen Wiig) that her brother (Bill Ha...
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Jaws actor from Bond films Richard Kiel dies at 74Sep 10, 2014 11:00 pm - FRESNO, Calif. - Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. He was 74. Kelley Sanchez...
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Film critic predicts Hollywood affair with ChinaSep 09, 2014 1:01 am - Film critic Dann Gire predicts Hollywood affair with burgeoning market
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'Guardians' tops box office for fourth weekendSep 07, 2014 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Guardians of the Galaxy” continues to rule the box office universe. The cosmic Marvel adventure arrived in first place at the box office for a fourth week...
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Renovations coming to Lombard movie theaterSep 07, 2014 7:00 am - Moviegoers will have a new and improved experience in a few months when they visit the AMC movie theater complex at Yorktown Center in Lombard. AMC Spokesman Ryan Noonan...