Movies
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Mario Lopez holiday movie filmed in Long Grove set to debut Dec. 7Nov 27, 2024 11:22 am - Get ready to see the suburbs’ favorite movie backdrop on screen again next week when “Once Upon a Christmas Wish” starring Mario Lopez premieres on the Great American Family channel.
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Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’Nov 27, 2024 11:07 am - Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an affair that’s at turns melancholy, biting and grandly theatrical.
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Though earnest and visually dazzling, ‘Moana 2’ is more dull than so shiny
Nov 26, 2024 2:04 pm - The warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in “Moana 2,” but little of the original’s humor or catchy songs finds its way into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel set three years after the original.
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What to stream: Michael Fassbender spies, yacht rock doc, Ben Stiller, the Beatles and Lindsay Lohan
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‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator’ make gravity-defying theater debuts
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When others ran from the musical, Jon M. Chu and ‘Wicked’ embraced itNov 22, 2024 10:28 am - “Musical” has been a dirty word lately in Hollywood marketing, but “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu isn’t having it. “When words aren’t enough, music is the extension of your expression. That’s what movies do, and that’s what musicals do,” Chu says.
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Christmas TV movies are in their Taylor Swift era, with two Swift-inspired films airing this year
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Is ‘Glicked’ the new ‘Barbenheimer’? ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ collide in theaters
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Netflix’s ‘Joy’ is a loud cheer for fertility, for never giving up — and science
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Lame dialogue wounds spectacularly violent epic sequel ‘Gladiator II’Nov 20, 2024 5:43 pm - In director Ridley Scott’s spectacularly violent, 200 AD Roman epic “Gladiator II,” limbs get lopped and heads get chopped, but the majority of casualties die from being talked to death.