Movies
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Sweeney, Powell battle saturated soundtrack in appealingly pugnacious rom-com ‘Anyone But You’Dec 21, 2023 8:00 am - “Anyone But You” -- 2.5 stars After about an hour or so, Will Gluck’s appealingly pugnacious “Anyone But You” slowly succumbs to a dreaded rom-com syndrome I like to...
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Jonathan Majors’ Marvel ouster after assault conviction throws years of Disney’s plans into disarrayDec 19, 2023 7:17 am - NEW YORK — Marvel had more riding on Jonathan Majors than perhaps any other actor. Now it's parting ways with him, and throwing years of plans for its cinematic universe ...
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What to stream this week: Bradley Cooper conducts, Lidia Bastianich cooks and Percy Jackson questsDec 18, 2023 6:00 am - A new Percy Jackson series and a PBS special hosted by cookbook author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a devi...
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‘Wonka’ waltzes to $39 million opening, propelled by Chalamet’s starring roleDec 17, 2023 1:03 pm - “Wonka” debuted with $39 million in box office sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That made it a strong start...
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Coming home, staying home: ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘Home Alone’ among 25 films picked for national registryDec 15, 2023 3:56 pm - Houston, we have a problem: Where’s Kevin? Perhaps the ultimate coming-home movie, “Apollo 13,” and the ultimate staying-home one, “Home Alone,” are both being honored th...
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ wins Best Picture at Chicago Film Critics awardsDec 15, 2023 3:42 pm - The CFCA named “Killers of the Flower Moon” Best Picture of 2023 Tuesday night.
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AP names its 2023 class of Breakthrough EntertainersDec 15, 2023 3:09 pm - In this year of big entertainment, there are five streaking stars making their mark.
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Timothée Chalamet waltzes through whimsical 'Wonka' but Roald Dahl's daring is missingDec 13, 2023 5:14 pm - “Wonka” -- 2.5 stars The original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops....
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Heart of Stone: Courageous Emma rocks trippy, surrealistic coming-of-age feminist fantasyDec 12, 2023 4:11 pm - “Poor Things” -- 4 stars I have not witnessed a motion picture this robustly imaginative, this ferociously sexual, this optically explosive and this politically inc...
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What to stream this week: Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour,' a Cody Johnson TV special and 'Reacher' returns
Dec 11, 2023 5:00 am - The second season of Prime Video's "Reacher" starring Alan Ritchson and the stop-motion animation flick "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget" are some of the new television,...