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Bill Nighy, Michael Ward shine in Netflix’s Homeless World Cup crowd-pleaser

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 28, 2024 5:30 am - “The Beautiful Game,” a new Netflix movie starring Bill Nighy and Michael Ward, is about a real international soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup. Don’t go in expecting documentary realness or grit, however. This is a movie-movie, tidily constructed to leave audiences feeling inspired and uplifted.
In ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,’ the Titans are the stars

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 27, 2024 9:57 am - There was no question who the stars were on “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire." It wasn’t Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens or any of the humans. The star is the one with their character’s name in the title.
The irony of Steve Martin’s life isn’t lost on him

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 26, 2024 12:42 pm - “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces,” premiering Friday on Apple TV+, splits Steve Martin’s story in two halves. One depicts Martin’s stand-up as it unfolded. The other captures Martin’s life as it is today — riding electric bikes with Martin Short, practicing the banjo — with reflections on the career that followed.
Best Bets: Waukegan blues woman Ivy Ford at Aurora’s Venue, Herbie Hancock in Chicago

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 26, 2024 11:11 am - Chicago musicians come home: blues singer/guitarist Ivy Ford headlines Aurora’s The Venue, jazz great Herbie Hancock returns to Symphony Center and award winner Jonathan McReynolds joins fellow gospel artists at the Auditorium Theatre.
What to stream this week: Beyoncé, Steve Martin, J-Hope, Mike Birbiglia, Bill Nighy and ‘Madu’

By The Associated Press
Mar 25, 2024 5:45 am - Beyoncé's country album and a documentary about a Nigerian boy who dreams of being a professional ballet dancer are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ is No. 1 with $45.2M, Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Immaculate’ lands in fourth

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 24, 2024 12:35 pm - “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” collected $45.2 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Sony Pictures the studio’s first No. 1 film since last summer.
In ‘Shirley,’ an underestimated Black congresswoman in an undercooked film

By Ann Hornaday
Mar 22, 2024 9:13 am - Regina King gives a lively, convincing portrayal of pioneering U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in “Shirley,” an earnest, curiously listless biopic of a woman whose legacy suffuses modern life, even as it goes unacknowledged.
A remake of ‘Road House’ with Jake Gyllenhaal turns into a muscular, Florida romp

BY MARK KENNEDY
Mar 21, 2024 5:45 am - Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. Dalton — played by a muscular and languid Jake Gyllenhaal — is a former UFC fighter with a dark past in “Road House,” a reworking of the pulpy 1989 action film starring Patrick Swayze.
Things get scary for Sydney Sweeney in a creepy Italian convent in ‘Immaculate’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 21, 2024 5:45 am - It’s not your imagination: Sydney Sweeney is everywhere. The horror film “Immaculate” is a great showcase for Sweeney’s range (she gets to go from somewhat meek to primal scream) and is full of interesting visuals. But it’s also a movie that does not seem as sure of itself.
A no-Gozer: New ‘Ghostbusters’ sequel a frosty ghost of its 1984 original

By Dann Gire
Mar 20, 2024 6:18 pm - Once again, the new, nostalgic “Ghostbusters” sequel “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” can’t match the wit, breezy fun and fresh imagination of the inspired original, co-written by Chicago’s Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd.

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