Movies
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AMC reopening first round of movie theaters next week - more to followAug 12, 2020 11:00 pm - AMC will reopen its first wave of suburban movie theaters Thursday, Aug. 20, with more to follow in the next two weeks. Opening next week are: AMC Hawthorn 12, AMC South...
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Lombard man's film fest allows artists to 'tell their stories the way they need to be told'Aug 12, 2020 1:00 am - An African American-owned film festival is about to host its second annual showing as it aims to help filmmakers tell their own stories and get due credit for their work...
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New to streaming this week: Jamie Foxx in 'Project Power'
Aug 11, 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 “Boys ...
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Widescreen: Home release of 'Mulan' is a necessary gamble for DisneyAug 07, 2020 9:10 am - In 2015, this column asked if you would pay $100 to watch "Avengers: Age of Ultron" at home the same weekend it opened in theaters. That question was inspired by a Satur...
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What to know about Beyoncé's 'Lion King'-inspired visual album 'Black Is King'
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - Beyoncé Knowles-Carter released “Black Is King” in the wee hours of last Friday morning, roughly one month after publicly announcing that she had shot a companion piece ...
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'She Dies Tomorrow' a queasily effective horror film for the times
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - “She Dies Tomorrow” - ★ ★ Writer-director Amy Seimetz dredges up a queasily effective sense of impending doom in “She Dies Tomorrow,” a vivid but vaporous portrait...
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Low-key 'Secret Garden' still blooms in latest film adaptation
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - “The Secret Garden” -- ★ ★ ½ For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett's “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured. It remains one of the gr...
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For Liam Neeson and son, 'Made in Italy' was a family affair
Aug 06, 2020 11:00 pm - When Liam Neeson sits down with a script, he usually knows within five pages whether he wants to do it. He calls it his "cup of tea" test. If he finds himself eager to g...
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Seth Rogen does double duty in sweet HBO Max fable 'An American Pickle'
Aug 06, 2020 6:00 am - “An American Pickle” - ★ ★ ½ The funniest part of “An American Pickle” isn't even really in the movie. It's a little scene in the middle of the credits in which Se...
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Performances lift slow-moving film drama 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
Aug 06, 2020 6:00 am - “Waiting for the Barbarians” - ★ ★ ½ Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Wai...