Movies
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Silly subplots muck up coming-of-age drama 'December Boys'Oct 31, 2021 10:00 pm - • "December Boys" doesn't cater to Daniel Radcliffe's star status as you might expect. Longtime TV and movie director Ron Hardy keeps the story an ensemble project, with...
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Austen's powersOct 31, 2021 10:04 pm - I can't guarantee that manly men won't lose some testosterone while watching "The Jane Austen Book Club." But those fearless enough to venture into this smart and engagi...
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Credibility, great script elude 'The Hunting Party'Oct 31, 2021 9:59 pm - "The Hunting Party" -- in which Richard Gere and Terrence Howard play American journalists hunting a Serbian war criminal who bears a suspicious resemblance to Radovan K...
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Zoe Saldana gets on 'Trek'Oct 31, 2021 10:05 pm - J.J. Abrams is slowly bringing his crew together for Paramount Pictures' 11th film in the "Star Trek" movie series. Zoe Saldana is in final negotiations to play Uhura, w...
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Travolta still has the moves 30 years laterOct 31, 2021 9:59 pm - Thirty years ago, a film about a troubled young man from Brooklyn became a hit around the world. John Travolta starred as Tony Manero, whose ordinary life became magic o...
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Billboard's top 10 DVD salesNov 01, 2021 9:55 am - Here's a list of the top 10 DVD sales and video/DVD rentals last week as compiled by Billboard Magazine. DVD sales 1. "Blades of Glory" -- DreamWorks Home Entertainment ...
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Gross 'Good luck' chuck-full of problemsOct 31, 2021 9:48 pm - "Good Luck Chuck" valiantly strives to become one of those sexy romantic comedies that seamlessly stitches ultragross humor with lots of female nudity and insightful obs...
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Rating the Muvico theater experienceOct 31, 2021 9:40 pm - No one remembers which movie Annie actually saw during her very first trip to a theater, bought out by Daddy Warbucks in the 1982 movie. With ushers lined up on either s...
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Fall film guide -- a novel approachOct 31, 2021 9:25 pm - How fitting that the oldest extant piece of Western literature, "Beowulf," will be coming this fall to a theater near us. It's now a movie from Chicago's own Robert Zeme...
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'Silk' spins history for dummiesOct 31, 2021 9:05 pm - When Francois Girard's "Silk" premieres on home video, it should come wrapped in a bright yellow cover marked with big, block letters: "Pretentious Historical Dramas for...