Movies
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Elgin Short Film Festival returns, with in-person and virtual screeningsSep 19, 2023 11:00 pm - The Elgin Short Film Festival will celebrate its 15th year at The Hemmens Cultural Center on Saturday, Sept. 23, with live in-theatre and at-home virtual screenings. The...
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Streaming this week: Drake, Doja Cat, 'Sex Education,' 'The Super Models' and 'Superpower'
Sep 18, 2023 6:00 am - The return of Netflix's "Sex Education" with Gillian Anderson, Sean Penn's documentary about Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a docuseries that charts the rise o...
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'Nun 2' narrowly edges 'A Haunting in Venice' over quiet weekend in movie theaters
Sep 17, 2023 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - "The Nun 2" and "A Haunting in Venice" virtually tied for the No. 1 spot in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, with a slight edge carrying the horro...
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Director Alexander Payne makes movies like they used to
Sep 15, 2023 10:00 am - The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies. But Alexander Payne want...
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'Cassandro,' with Gael Garcia Bernal as a liberated luchador, is a winner
Sep 15, 2023 6:00 am - “Cassandro” — ★ ★ ★ Anyone who has eagerly followed Gael Garcia Bernal since his breakthrough roles in “Amores Perros” and “Y tu mamá también” likely never foresaw...
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A charming Haley Lu Richardson anchors sappy but sweet rom-com 'Love at First Sight'
Sep 15, 2023 6:00 am - “Love at First Sight” — ★ ★ The last time we saw Haley Lu Richardson — at least, the “White Lotus” version of Haley Lu Richardson — her Portia was in an airport, l...
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League of Women Voters to host free film screening of 'No Time to Fail'Sep 14, 2023 11:00 pm - YouTube "No Time to Fail" follows Rhode Island election officials as they administer the 2020 election amid a global pandemic. The 2022 film is highly relevant given cu...
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Chicago International Film Festival returns with 'Banshees' star Keoghan's new filmSep 14, 2023 6:00 am - The 59th Chicago International Film Festival returns next month, and the new film from "Promising Young Woman" director Emerald Fennell leads the 12-day lineup of screen...
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Kenneth Branagh crafts a sumptuously spooky 'A Haunting in Venice'
Sep 14, 2023 6:00 am - “A Haunting in Venice” — ★ ★ ★ Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can...
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Streaming this week: 'Barbie,' Dan & Shay, 'The Morning Show' and 'Welcome to Wrexham'
Sep 11, 2023 6:00 am - Tunes from Dan & Shay and Vic Mensa plus a genre-blending Hulu series "The Other Black Girl" set inside the world of publishing are some of the new television, movies, m...