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'Five-Year Engagement': Engaging rom-com worth an 'I do' ✭✭✭ 1/2
A lot of terrible romantic comedies come along in a given year, and after five or six you begin to question your belief in anything — romance, comedy, movies, even terribleness itself. Before you know it you're trying to break the fever and hit...
Tags: The Muppets (movie), Entertainment, Chris Pratt, Movies, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'The Sapphires' a tuneful trip to Vietnam ★★ 1/2
Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already, many have seen it and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...
Tags: Literature, Raquel Welch, Chris O'Dowd, Entertainment, The Sapphires (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Toronto International Film Festival, Drama (genre), Entertainment, Magnolia (movie)
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Australian film 'The Sapphires' finds its American soul
"The Sapphires," which opens Friday, is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam, so it's covering its bases internationally. The...
Tags: Entertainment, Gladys Knight, Tammy Wynette, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ricky Jay keeps his magic tricks, and thoughts, close to the vest
About midway through the documentary "Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay" (opening Friday at the Music Box Theatre), Jay emerges backstage after a performance and is greeted by a roomful of people. As he acknowledges his well-...
Tags: Fine Artists, Entertainment, Paul Feig, Artists, Chess Playing
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Northwestern tackles the career (and controversies) of Tyler Perry
There are no sacred cows on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." The show happily skewers its own network along with any number of pop-culture phenomena, and last week's episode was no different, with a running joke aimed squarely in the direction of Tyler Perry,...
Tags: Cartoon Network (tv network), Entertainment, Colleges and Universities, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Millennium Park
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'Bachelorette' review: Stop rolling your eyes--it's funnier than 'Bridesmaids'
***1/2 (out of four) Pretend for a moment that “Bridesmaids” never existed. You’d totally go for a hilarious comedy about bridesmaids, right? OK, now remember that “Bridesmaids” existed. Guess what: “Bachelorette&...
Tags: Entertainment, Kristen Wiig, Movies, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott
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Short, sometimes sweet, often interesting
In the dark animated short "The Watchmaker's Apprentice" (from Chicago filmmaker Julian Grant), the title character narrates his tale in song to an oompah beat. "I once was an apprentice in the clock making trade/and the miser made me work for every penny...
Tags: Entertainment, Drama (genre), YouTube, Video Supplies and Services, Movies
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Ira Glass and WBEZ Chicago venture into the movie biz
One of the first things you notice during the opening credits of "Sleepwalk with Me" is a producing acknowledgment that reads simply: "In association with WBEZ Chicago's This American Life." Chicago's largest public radio station is in the movie...
Tags: Entertainment, Paul Feig, Studs Terkel, Matt Damon, Celebrities
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Meghan Daum: Breaking comedy's raunch barrier
The results are in: "Bridesmaids," the much-hyped girl-raunch comedy touted as the long-awaited antidote to Judd Apatow's "bromance" phenomenon, opened way bigger than expected at the box office, thereby proving that women can be just as funny —...Tags: Wilson Phillips (music group), Entertainment, Christopher Hitchens, Comedy (genre), Lisa Cholodenko
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'Bridesmaids' star Melissa McCarthy digs another female-led film
24 FramesIt’s been a whirlwind year for the actress Melissa McCarthy, who stole scenes in the raucous comedy “Bridesmaids,” won an Emmy for her work on the CBS series “Mike & Molly,” hosted “Saturday Night Live” and is... -
'Bridesmaids,' 'Tree of Life,' 'Hugo' in AFI's top 10 films of 2011
24 Frames'Bridesmaids,' 'Tree of Life,' 'Hugo,' among AFI's 10 movies of the year...
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