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Isn't it time for a TV show about a South Side political dynasty?
Now that the elections are over, what's good on TV? There are many fine and steamy political dramas set in Chicago. "The Good Wife" and "Boss" are two of my favorites. Yet these shows, like so many others, revolve around white characters. If the national...
Tags: Blair Underwood, Chicago Tribune, Television, Morgan Freeman, The Good Wife (tv program)
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'Skyfall' no downer to James Bond franchise
OPENING TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT Skyfall  ‘‘Skyfall’’ — To borrow a line from Depeche Mode, death is everywhere. James Bond’s mortality has never been in such prominent focus, but the demise of the entire British spy...
Tags: Adele (music artist), Monsters, Inc. (movie), Entertainment, Skyfall (movie), Sam Mendes
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Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games
When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,&...
Tags: Wall-E (movie), Animation (genre), Pixar Animation, Entertainment, Matt Groening
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Movie Guide for TownMall in Carroll County, Nov. 4, 2012
now playing "Argo" (R). In 1979, after Iranian revolutionaries storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a CIA "exfiltration" specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans trapped. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and Alan Arkin. TownMall Cinemas (1:00,...Tags: Jim Broadbent, Luke Grimes, Maggie Grace, Halloween, Tom Hanks
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Wreck It Ralph
Fox 5 San Diego staffI’m never thrilled when attending animated films. Often times they’re like Shrek or the last one I saw – Brave. Great graphics, great voices, weak story and ultimately a kids movie. Imagine my surprise when I brought my friends kids to...Tags: Adam Carolla, Shrek (fictional character), Sports, Alan Tudyk, Entertainment
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'Wreck-It Ralph' review: Disney laps Pixar
 *** (out of four) Anyone who has ever possessed a weakness for candy and/or video games will want to jump inside “Wreck-It Ralph,” a sweet, colorful 3-D animated feature that finds Disney passing its stuck-in-a-rut partners at Pixar (“...
Tags: Katy Perry, Pixar Animation, Russell Brand, Entertainment, Jack McBrayer
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Video game world built for 'Wreck-It Ralph'
Tribune NewspapersBURBANK, Calif. — It was when he cast Bowser, the fire-breathing turtle from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. games, that Rich Moore first grasped the magnitude of the job he was undertaking. “That was the huge one,” he said at Walt...Tags: Gaming Industry, Sega Corporation, John Lasseter, Services and Shopping, Entertainment
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Zero-star 'Alex Cross' review: A thriller that cannot be taken seriously
Zero stars (out of four) Without referencing early 1990s rappers Kris Kross, I see no way to write a less-menacing tagline than the one on the poster for “Alex Cross”: “Don’t ever cross Alex Cross.” This thriller plays like...
Tags: Cicely Tyson, Morgan Freeman, Tyler Perry, Mark Wahlberg, James Patterson
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'The Dictator'
Zap2ItSacha Baron Cohen is back at it -- though his similarly satirical turns as Borat and Bruno, also done with director Larry Charles, had more bite -- in this comedy about a tyrannical foreign leader who comes to America and finds himself swept up in a...Tags: DVDs, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, The Dictator (movie), Anna Faris
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Wreck-it Ralph video game is coming to Nintendo systems this fall
Orlando SentinelOK, this has to be a first. A video game is being made out of a movie about a video game. “Wreck-It Ralph” is a future Disney animated flick set for a fall release, and already this week comes news that a “Wreck-It Ralph” video...Tags: Activision Blizzard, Inc., Nintendo Company Ltd., Wii, Entertainment, Jack McBrayer
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What to see this weekend in the LV
LakeviewStaring down the prospect of a three-day weekend with way too many film choices? Never fear, I'll narrow it down for you! Below are my personal picks of what's playing in Lakeview: At Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark): “Carnage”:... -
'We Need to Talk About Kevin': When mother's intuition is bleakly on the money -- 2 stars
Or do we? "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is artfully visualized but, at heart, little more than "The Bad Seed and How!" Director and co-writer Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of the Lionel Shriver novel complicates Shriver's story structure while simplifying...Tags: We Need to Talk About Kevin (movie), Seamus McGarvey, Entertainment, Movies
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