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January 13, 2017

Movies opening Jan. 20

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January 13, 2017
Meryl Streep accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 8, 2017.

How Hollywood is bracing itself for the Donald Trump era

Those who opposed him express an obligation to carry on, while others see opportunity ahead.
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January 12, 2017
Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Jenna Kanell and Cressida Bonas in "The Bye Bye Man." (Doug Jones/STX Productions) ORG XMIT: 1195703

Reviews of 'Monster Trucks' and 'Bye Bye Man'

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January 12, 2017
Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch in "The Autopsy of Jane Doe."

Low-rent thriller 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' has penthouse-worthy star

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January 12, 2017
Molly Ringwald and Michael Schoeffling in "Sixteen Candles."

How a Chicago native learned about life from director John Hughes

Memoir revisits growing up in the 1980 and '90s in northern Chicago suburbs.
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January 9, 2017
Mike Myers as Wayne and Dana Carvey as Garth in the 1992 film "Wayne's World."

Party on, Garth: Aurora, Ill., will celebrate 25th anniversary of 'Wayne's World'

City has "excellent" plans for movie's 25th anniversary.
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January 9, 2017
LEGO(r) minifigure Batman (voiced by WILL ARNETT) in the 3D computer animated adventure "The LEGO(r) Batman Movie," from Warner Bros. Pictures and Rat

10 comic book-inspired movies fans are excited to see in 2017

With 40 films in the genre slated this year, here are 10 we're excited to see.
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January 7, 2017
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in "His Girl Friday."

Home-video review: 'His Girl Friday' as timely as ever in new Blu-ray

Scheming journalists, lying politicians, conniving cops? It's not your Facebook feed. It's Howard Hawks' classic 1940 farce, "His Girl Friday,"
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January 5, 2017
Carrie Fisher starred as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" movies.

Carrie Fisher fans lobby to make Leia an official Disney princess

Fans of deceased actress Carrie Fisher — who died at age 60 on Dec. 27 — are lobbying Disney to make Fisher's "Star Wars" character, Princess Leia, an official Disney princess.
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January 5, 2017
Jackie Chan in "Railroad Tigers." (Well Go USA) ORG XMIT: 1195432

Twin Cities theaters offer double serving of Chinese movies

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December 31, 2016
Andrew Garfield plays Father Rodrigues and Shinya Tsukamoto plays Mokichi in "Silence."
credit: Kerry Brown, Paramount Pictures

Movies opening on Jan. 6

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December 31, 2016
This image released by Open Road shows Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from, "Snowden." (Open Road Films via AP)

Home video review: 'Snowden' is a miss for Oliver Stone

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December 23, 2016
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

Test your classic holiday movie IQ

How's your CHMIQ (classic holiday movie IQ)? Test it with this quiz.
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December 23, 2016

Movie openings Dec. 30

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December 22, 2016
The Mall of America theaters, a mall fixture since 1992, will close next week to make way for a new entertainment venue.

Dec. 22: Mall of America movie theaters will close next week for good

A new entertainment venue will open there next year, but the mall isn't saying what it is yet.
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December 22, 2016
Playwright August Wilson wrote “Fences” while living in St. Paul. He began working on the screen adaptation in 1987 — the same ye

What took so long for August Wilson's Minnesota-built 'Fences' to get to the big screen?

Denzel Washington's film version of the August Wilson play "Fences" was nearly 30 years in the making.
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December 22, 2016
Bryan Cranston and James Franco in the film "Why Him?" (20th Century Fox) ORG XMIT: 1194709

'Why Him?': Cranston and Franco go mano-a-mano

A cranky dad battles his daughter's boyfriend in the fun but sexist Silicon Valley satire "Why Him?"
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December 22, 2016

Aside from 'The Piano Lesson,' it's tough for home viewers to find August Wilson's work

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December 20, 2016
DF-01952_R3_CROP ñ Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the advent

'Assassin's Creed': The game's afoot in Fassbender's strange but exciting ride

REVIEW: Director Justin Kurzel brings visual punch to this video game adaptation with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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December 20, 2016
In the Infirmary, Jim (CHRIS PRATT) and Aurora (JENNIFER LAWRENCE) realize they have limited options in Columbia Pictures' PASSENGERS. ORG XMIT: Chris

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence are trapped cute in 'Passengers'

REVIEW: Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence go to waste in a misfired sci-fi romance.

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