Movies
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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...
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In HBO's magnificent Bee Gees documentary, broken hearts — and icon status — can at least be mended
Dec 13, 2020 6:00 am - Wherever you currently land on the subject of the Bee Gees (Forgotten glitter gods? Perpetual punchline?), director Frank Marshall's thorough and beautifully appreciativ...
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Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece
Dec 12, 2020 6:25 am - There will come a time, next year or maybe later, when 2020 will have receded enough that we'll no longer experience it as the Never-ending Now, when time became maddeni...
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Ang Lee on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' 20 years laterDec 11, 2020 10:00 am - NEW YORK — It's physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that hovers atop slender bamboo trees in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and not say out loud “Wh...
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Widescreen: Two John Hughes films make their Blu-ray debut in 2021Dec 11, 2020 5:00 am - It won't magically arrive in time for the holidays like Neal Page did at his Kenilworth home in the closing moments of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” but a new Blu-ra...
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'The hap-hap-happiest' holiday films of Northbrook's John HughesDec 10, 2020 5:00 am - Filmmaker and longtime Northbrook resident John Hughes is known mostly for his comic teenage romance films that greatly contributed to the “Brat Pack” legacy of the 1980...
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Rachel Brosnahan channels a gangster's wife in Amazon's 'I'm Your Woman'
Dec 10, 2020 5:00 am - “I'm Your Woman” - ★ ★ ½ When it's at its best, “I'm Your Woman” feels like you've slipped through a trap door, revealing a hidden pathway in an old genre apparatu...
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Romance unfolds slowly in John Patrick Shanley's film 'Wild Mountain Thyme'Dec 10, 2020 5:00 am - “Wild Mountain Thyme” - ★ ★ ½ Ask any actor, Irish accents are notoriously tricky. Even natives can struggle with regional dialects. So it is a little alarming tha...