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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Sparrow (music group), Bernie (movie), Helen Hunt, Robert Zemeckis
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Gaming grows up: A video game revolution
The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...
Tags: Chicago Humanities Festival, Games, Xbox 360, University of Chicago, Customs and Tradition
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Vertigo replaces Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all-time
KIAHIn case you haven't heard, there is a new top dog when it comes to the greatest movies of all time. Sight and Sound's list has Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Vertigo" replacing Orson Welles classic "Citizen Kane." For 50 years, "Citizen...Tags: Orson Welles, Thriller (genre), Vertigo (movie), Alfred Hitchcock
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Movies under the stars for every day of the workweek
Baltimore is one city where crowds come out in the heat of the night to take in open-air movies.
In mid-July last year, when the thermometer was hitting 95 in the day and stalling in the 80s past midnight, fun-seekers swarmed to Federal Hill to watch...Tags: Drive (movie), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (movie), Ides of March, Dining and Drinking, Crazy, Stupid, Love. (movie)
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, Janis Joplin, Ginger Rogers
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Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92.
Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...Tags: England, Orson Welles, Movies, Karl Malden, Glenn Ford
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On Oscars: The best often don't win
On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...Tags: Richard Burton, Casablanca (movie), The Hustler (movie), Ernest Borgnine, Barbara Stanwyck
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'The Artist': Critics speak up to praise silent film
24 FramesIn a time when CGI spectacle and dizzying 3-D effects dominate the box office, an unlikely new silent black-and-white movie — by a French filmmaker, no less — is captivating critics. "The Artist," written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius,... -
Dean's Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
WGN NewsThe long awaited beginning of the end of the Twlight series begins today. "Breaking dawn: Part one" sees the marriage of the vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) with mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart) while the werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) is not happy...Tags: WGN, Movies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (movie), Robert Pattinson, Family
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Writer of 'Milk' questions the psyche of 'J. Edgar'
The late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover would have hated director Clint Eastwood's new movie about him, but audiences are likely to be intrigued by it. Although "J. Edgar" does not realize its full dramatic potential, it's an ambitious attempt to get inside...Tags: R Rated Movies, Orson Welles, Movies, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert F. Kennedy
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