Movies
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Lin-Manuel Miranda doc postponed out of solidarity with protesters
Jun 04, 2020 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Just two days before it was to begin streaming, "We Are Freestyle Love Supreme," a documentary about the hip-hop improv group with Lin-Manuel Miranda and frie...
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Elisabeth Moss highlights fabricated film biopic of author 'Shirley' JacksonJun 04, 2020 6:00 am - I usually have no problem with artistic license used when telling stories of real people. But sometimes the journalist part of me butts in and throws a flag on the play ...
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Suburban officials hopeful AMC Theatres will survive COVID-19Jun 04, 2020 1:00 am - Despite AMC Theatres' announcement that it might not outlast the shutdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, local officials remain hopeful the country's largest movi...
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Cinema chain AMC warns it may not survive the pandemic
Jun 03, 2020 7:00 am - Movie theater chain AMC warned Wednesday that it may not survive the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered its theaters and led film studios to explore releasing mor...
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Long Grove's Woodfire Tavern plans drive-in movies in parking lotJun 02, 2020 11:00 pm - Long Grove village board members have approved drive-in movies proposed for the parking lot of a bar and grill on Route 83. Under the proposal, Woodfire Tavern intends t...
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New to streaming this week: Documentaries on Bruce Lee, spelling and more
Jun 02, 2020 6:00 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 • For t...
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Spike Lee revisits 'Do the Right Thing' in short film
Jun 02, 2020 6:00 am - Spike Lee recognizes how relevant his 1989 film "Do the Right Thing" continues to be. The Oscar-winning filmmaker shared a short film Sunday night called "3 Brothers," r...
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'Just Mercy,' drama of racial injustice, to be free in June
Jun 01, 2020 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - The 2019 film "Just Mercy," which chronicles courtroom struggles against racial injustice and mass incarceration, will be made free on digital platforms throu...
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Too much on TV? Enter HBO Max, the latest streaming wannabe
May 28, 2020 11:00 pm - Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service? AT&T sure hopes so. The phone company is investing billions in HBO Max, its fi...
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#MeToo, phase 2: Doc explores heavy burden on women of color
May 28, 2020 11:00 pm - There's an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when ...