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A heist movie gleefully collides with a monster movie in ‘Abigail’

By MARK KENNEDY
Apr 18, 2024 11:56 am - If you always thought your garden-variety heist movies could do with a bit more blood-sucking vampire, have we got a flick for you. “Abigail,” featuring a 12-year-old tutu-wearing member of the undead, is a gleeful genre-smashing romp through puddles of gore.
‘We Grown Now’ a lyrical portrait of childhood growing up in Cabrini-Green

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 18, 2024 11:45 am - Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development.
‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ amps up a true-tale WWII heist

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 18, 2024 7:57 am - The latest Guy Ritchie flick, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush.
Love wins in triumphant ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’

By MARK KENNEDY
Apr 17, 2024 12:39 pm - In “Housekeeping for Beginners,” writer and director Goran Stolevski gives us an atypical family portrait that's brilliantly political without being preachy, loving without being maudlin and epic by being specifically tiny.
Should you watch ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ about a family of Bigfoots? Not yeti

By MARK KENNEDY
Apr 16, 2024 2:47 pm - “Sasquatch Sunset,” from filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner, is a bewildering 90-minute, narrator-less and wordless experiment that's as audacious as it is infuriating.
After Hours Film Society to show ‘Common Ground’ on Earth Day April 22

Submitted by After Hours Film Society
Apr 15, 2024 1:10 pm - On Earth Day, the After Hours Film Society will present Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s 2023 documentary “Common Ground” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.
‘Civil War’ declares victory at the box office, toppling ‘Godzilla x Kong’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 15, 2024 7:59 am - Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse. The film also inspired audiences to go to the cinemas this weekend where it surpassed expectations and earned $25.7 million in ticket sales in North America.
What to stream this week: Conan O’Brien travels, ‘Migration’ soars and Taylor Swift will reign

By The Associated Press
Apr 15, 2024 5:45 am - Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” album and Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver” landing on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Nothing else like it in the area’: How local film buff got involved with, now leads AfterImage Film Festival in St. Charles

By Dave Heun
Apr 12, 2024 4:30 am - Andrew Carlin of St. Charles shares how he got involved with – and now leads -- the AfterImage Film Festival in St. Charles, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, April 14.
Max’s Mission, KidsMatter to show ‘My Sister Liv’ April 23

By Sue Omanson, KidsMatter
Apr 11, 2024 9:22 pm - Max's Mission and KidsMatter invite the community to a special showing of the 2022 documentary “My Sister Liv” on Tuesday, April 23, at Metea Valley High School in Aurora...

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