Movies
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The Daily Herald newspaper movie for JulyJun 11, 2020 1:00 am - 'Sweet Smell of Success' In our pandemic livestreaming, we came across this engrossing 1957 film noir that casts Burt Lancaster as a powerful but unscrupulous newspaper...
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Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' offers brash, urgent tale of war and racism
Jun 11, 2020 1:00 am - Good news: there's no expensive “de-aging” process used in “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee's absorbing, brash, exhausting, urgent, sometimes brilliant and sometimes unapologeti...
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They're the bees knees: Some totally buggy movies to stream this weekendJun 10, 2020 11:00 pm - We all have ants in the pants from three months of quarantine, but this weekend let's make a beeline for the TV and herald the four-years-too-early arrival of the 17-yea...
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New this week: Spike Lee flick, 'Artemis Fowl' and Norah Jones
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Constable: Great Scott! Suburban father and son build 'Back to the Future' guitarJun 09, 2020 5:33 am - As a teenager in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Steve Doner played trumpet in the high school band, and he learned enough in an electronics class to start a business setting up sp...
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AMC says it expects 97%-98% of its theaters reopened by mid-JulyJun 09, 2020 1:00 am - NEW YORK - After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen - even if it means only a few titles on the marquee an...
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Pandemic, redevelopment combine to close Ogden 6 in NapervilleJun 08, 2020 1:00 am - The screens at Classic Cinemas Ogden 6 Theatres showed their final films March 16. It's not how ownership imagined closing the longtime movie house, which sits on the f...
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Widescreen: 'Goonies' celebrates 35 years with a treasure chest full of goodiesJun 05, 2020 9:00 am - Any movie's milestone anniversary gives the marketing department a good reason to hype an old catalog title, and Sunday will be the 35th trip around the sun for a movie ...
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Hulu's 'We Are Freestyle Love Supreme' a treat for Lin-Manuel Miranda fansJun 05, 2020 6:00 am - Editor's note: The release of this film has been postponed. It will be available at a later date. There's a great moment in the documentary “We Are Freestyle Love S...
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Dann Gire: 10 films to promote understanding during these trying timesJun 04, 2020 11:00 pm - The late Roger Ebert famously referred to the movies as “empathy machines” capable of fostering common understanding between people of different races, religions, politi...