Movies
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Oscar nominations are Tuesday morning. Expect a big day for ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Barbie’Jan 23, 2024 6:46 am - It’s Oscar nominations morning, which means it’s time for the year’s best movies and performers to find out if they’re headed to the Academy Awards. Nominations to the 96...
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Norman Jewison, acclaimed director of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘Moonstruck,’ dead at 97Jan 22, 2024 4:21 pm - NEW YORK — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas ...
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‘Mean Girls’ fetches $11.7M in second weekend to stay No. 1 at the box officeJan 21, 2024 4:58 pm - NEW YORK — On a quiet weekend in movie theaters, “Mean Girls” repeated atop the box office with $11.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, while...
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In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor seek the roots of racismJan 18, 2024 12:39 pm - Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfr...
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‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ lead the race for Britain’s BAFTA film awardsJan 18, 2024 7:20 am - Atom-bomb epic “Oppenheimer” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 13 categories including best film. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” rece...
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In ‘The Teachers’ Lounge,’ one middle school is a microcosm of a troubled worldJan 18, 2024 5:45 am - What happens in the teachers’ lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, lig...
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In ‘I.S.S.,’ war on Earth disrupts life aboard the International Space StationJan 18, 2024 5:45 am - With war raging in Ukraine and U.S.-Russia relations below freezing, the Cold War movie may be alive, again, too. After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nucl...
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Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ is a powerful, artful interpretation of ‘Caste’Jan 18, 2024 5:45 am - Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (OK, I) ca...
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Elgin native, Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Shales dead at 79Jan 17, 2024 6:10 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, an Elgin native whose witty, incisive observations inspired both respect and fear, according to The New York Times, d...
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At 40, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its past and looks to the futureJan 16, 2024 12:08 pm - Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, they’d come to Park City, Utah, armed with a short film “Gowa...