Movies
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DVD previews: 'Amazing Spider-Man 2,' 'Quiet Ones'Aug 16, 2014 5:45 am - Here is a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Aug. 19: "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (PG-13, 142 minutes, Sony): This sequel is a strenuously chipper but nonetheless saggy...
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Kellan Lutz says Robin Williams was role modelAug 16, 2014 5:30 am - NEW YORK - "Twilight" star Kellan Lutz teared up when he talked about the death of Robin Williams, saying he saw the actor-comedian as a model for how to be a dad. The ...
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'The Giver' arrives, after a two-decade journeyAug 15, 2014 5:45 am - NEW YORK — It was almost 20 years ago, and actor Jeff Bridges was searching for a movie project that would be a family affair — one in which he could direct his father, ...
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Tyler Perry at Willow Creek talks about mixing artistry, leadershipAug 15, 2014 1:01 am - Faith in God and a desire to champion underdogs like himself took Tyler Perry from a poor and abusive household in Louisiana to being one of the most influential voices ...
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Harper to host Chicago area premiere of 'The SuperDeafy Movie'Aug 14, 2014 11:00 pm - The Kimball Hill Family Deaf Institute at Harper College is widely recognized as the standard in higher education. So it's fitting that the creators of "No Ordinary Hero...
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'Let's Be Cops' a crime against comedyAug 14, 2014 12:00 pm - Like a down-market "Sharknado" of buddy-policemen movies, "Let's Be Cops" seeks to capitalize on the success of the "21 Jump Street" franchise with lackadaisically explo...
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Gire: 5 minutes with 'The Giver' starsAug 14, 2014 5:30 am - 6 Qs for 2 'Giver' stars I'm on a chair in a room at Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel. On the couch are the young stars from “The Giver,” Australian actor Brenton Thwai...
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'Giver' takes all: Ambitious sci-fi drama a dispassionate tale of dispassionAug 14, 2014 5:00 am - Phillip Noyce's science-fiction drama "The Giver" should grab us by our conscientious lapels and shake us with its glimpse of a bleak future in which humanity has been p...
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Robin Williams' wife: He had Parkinson's diseaseAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease and was sober at the time of his suicide, his wife said Thursday. In a statement, Susan Schne...
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New tricks can't rescue 'Expendables 3'Aug 13, 2014 11:00 pm - In its third incarnation, "The Expendables" has become, well, expendable. Despite some ruthless new tactics, there's no saving "The Expendables 3," the overpopulated thi...