Movies
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'To the Wonder' is visual, if not prosaic, poetryApr 18, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life review: "To the Wonder" Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder" will go down in the history books as the final movie officially reviewed by the late Chicago critic ...
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Sharp sci-fi thriller about memories forgets characters, not actionApr 18, 2013 6:00 am - I knew nothing about Joseph Kosinski's science fiction thriller "Oblivion" when I sat down for a press screening Tuesday at the Navy Pier IMAX Theater in Chicago. I jus...
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Films from Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina and more come to ElginApr 18, 2013 5:30 am - Thanks to a grant from the city of Elgin's Cultural Arts Commission, suburban audiences will get to see family-oriented films featured in this year's Chicago Latino Film...
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‘Django’ stars, ‘Avengers’ win big at MTV Movie AwardsApr 14, 2013 9:11 pm - LOS ANGELES — With a cast of superheroes and villains, “The Avengers” beat out its competitors to become the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards. The action romp won thre...
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NY woman charged with stalking Hugh JackmanApr 14, 2013 4:18 pm - NEW YORK — It was a hair-raising experience for actor Hugh Jackman at a New York City gym. Radio station 1010 WINS says Jackman was working out in a gym Saturday morning...
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'42' opens on top this weekendApr 14, 2013 11:00 am - The Jackie Robinson biography “42” opened as the top weekend film at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $27 million for Legendary Pictures and distributor Time W...
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Ebertfest theater shows off renovationsApr 13, 2013 4:40 pm - CHAMPAIGN — The Champaign theater that hosts the annual Ebertfest film festival is showing off more than $5 million in renovations before this year’s festival starts. Th...
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DVD previews: ‘Orchestra of Exiles,’ Django Unchained’Apr 13, 2013 5:48 am - Coming April 14-16 “Orchestra of Exiles” (unrated, 85 minutes, First Run Features): Josh Aronson’s film shows how the great violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved as many as...
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New local Holocaust film premiers at OaktonApr 12, 2013 2:35 pm - “Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home,” a one-hour documentary by Ethan Bensiger, premiers 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oakton Community College’s Skokie campus. In the late 1930s...
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Arlington Heights dine-in cinema aims for late May openingApr 12, 2013 11:02 am - Star Cinema Grill, the forthcoming dine-in movie theater in downtown Arlington Heights, aims to be fully operational by the summer movie season but hasn’t yet named a sp...