Movies
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'Nomadland,' the late Chadwick Boseman win Chicago Film Critics awardsDec 21, 2020 10:00 pm - "Nomadland" topped the Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Awards, taking five awards including best picture, best director and best actress for Frances McDormand. Ch...
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The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: 'I'm asking you, please, look'
Dec 21, 2020 5:00 am - There's a moment in “Education,” the final installment of Steve McQueen's anthology series “Small Axe,” that goes from absurd to surreal to tragic in the time it takes f...
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'Wonder Woman 1984' hopes to lasso a little holiday joy
Dec 17, 2020 10:00 pm - Patty Jenkins wasn't even finished making "Wonder Woman" when she started dreaming up a sequel for her and star Gal Gadot. The first film had the weight of both female-f...
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AP Breakthrough Entertainer Anya Taylor-Joy living in Narnia
Dec 17, 2020 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - In a span of seven months this year alone, Anya Taylor-Joy played a meddling British brat in "Emma," a Russian mutant with teleportation powers in the late...
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Chadwick Boseman brilliant in final film 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'
Dec 17, 2020 7:00 am - “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” — ★ ★ ★ ★ Chadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” like a man on an electrif...
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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...