Movies
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Widescreen: Another holiday tradition taken away by 2020Dec 17, 2020 5:00 am - Ten years ago this weekend, I spent Friday morning seeing "TRON: Legacy" twice - once just after midnight, once just before noon - both times sitting in the front row of...
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Gerard Butler rides to the rescue in disaster film 'Greenland'Dec 17, 2020 5:00 am - “Greenland” — ★ ★ At first, I thought someone had played a practical joke on me. I had just started watching a digital press screener for Gerard Butler's new thrill...
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Parent objects to content in Barrington High School film classDec 17, 2020 4:30 am - The mother of a senior at Barrington High School complained to the school board about a movie some students in a film class watched that portrays a sex toy. School offic...
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Candy industry film featuring Dist. 21 board member airs ThursdayDec 16, 2020 12:00 am - A longtime Northwest suburban school board member will be featured in a documentary airing Thursday night on WTTW about a Chicago candy company and the rich history of t...
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New to streaming: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' and CBS' 'A Home for the Holidays'
Dec 15, 2020 5:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies • "Ma R...
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How 'Sound of Metal' captured the sounds of silence
Dec 14, 2020 5:00 am - It can be difficult to maintain a first-person narrative, according to director Darius Marder. Audiences might tire of the protagonist, eager for the story to cut away t...
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'Dark Knight,' 'Grease,' 'Blues Brothers' added to National Film Registry
Dec 13, 2020 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - This year's inductees into the National Film Registry include a record number of female directors and filmmakers of color as well as a new crop of movies r...
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New movies to stream this week: 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' 'The Stand In' and more
Dec 13, 2020 6:15 am - If you can believe Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as plain Irish farm folk - living on side-by-side parcels of land and both too shy and/or tetched to realize that they (a...
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A guide to this year's holiday movies, from Dolly Parton's musical to Kristen Stewart's LGBTQ rom-com
Dec 13, 2020 6:15 am - The holidays were never going to feel normal in a pandemic, and with health officials warning against travel, it seems one of the most responsible ways to spend them mig...
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TV's gay Christmas movies are as benign, charming and cliche as we always hoped they'd be
Dec 13, 2020 6:00 am - In olden times, the people behind the so-called gay agenda wanted nothing more than what everyone else already had: marriage, kids, suburban bliss, job security and equa...