Matt Arado
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'Chicago 10' no conventional documentaryAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - "Chicago 10" - Writer/director Brett Morgen takes a billy club to the conventions of documentary filmmaking in "Chicago 10," his look at the violence surrounding the 196...
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Suburban schools staying tough on residency rulesAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Thousands of students all over the suburbs will attend new schools this month. You can bet that school district officials are checking their addresses. In the midst of t...
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Lawsuit makes school funding a civil rights matterAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois courts refused twice in the 1990s to enter the school-funding debate, saying the matter belonged with state lawmakers, not the judiciary. The Chicago Urban Leag...
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'Street Kings' a grim but entertaining cop thrillerAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - "Street Kings" - Crime writer James Ellroy has spent his career exploring the demonic side of the City of Angels. His bloody fingerprints are all over "Street Kings,...
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The best DVDs (so far) for 2008Aug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - For DVD fans, August is a cruel month. The big summer movies won't start arriving on DVD until September. The same goes for all the special collector's editions and fanc...
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Quizzing your Apatow aptitudeAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - It's hard to believe that just three years ago, relatively few people had heard of Judd Apatow. That changed with 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," which racked up $109 ...
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'Counterfeiters' a genuinely tough dramaAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Counterfeiters" - Winner of this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, "The Counterfeiters" tells the fascinating (and true) story of a group of Jews that ran the big...
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School leaders say funding answer still elusiveAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Another school year will soon get started, which means another debate about how to fund public education in Illinois. State Sen. James Meeks of Chicago's South Side got ...
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Hype, excitement building for 'Twilight' finale 'Breaking Dawn'Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Shortly after the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, you just might hear squeals of delight echoing from all corners of the suburbs. The reason: The final "Twilight" bo...
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'High and Low' gets top-shelf DVD treatmentJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - "High and Low" (The Criterion Collection) - Akira Kurosawa's hypnotic, haunting 1963 crime thriller gets a fantastic new presentation in this two-disc set from Criterion...