Movies
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In Hoffman Estates, princesses and superheroes in a socially-distanced paradeJul 24, 2020 11:00 pm - For the second time in as many months, the parking lot at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates was filled with princesses and super heroes Saturday. About 20 characters ...
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Horror film 'The Rental' gives 'drop-dead gorgeous' new meaning
Jul 23, 2020 11:00 pm - “The Rental” -- ★ ★ ★ To the list of established movie genres, we must now add another: the Airbnb horror film. Wait! A sub-genre: The pandemic-era Airbnb horror fi...
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Nine innings, nine great baseball movies to streamJul 23, 2020 6:00 am - At last, baseball is back. It's only 60 games — let's hope our viral nemesis doesn't make the season even shorter — but we'll take as many innings of Yoan Moncada, Eloy ...
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'Radioactive' radiates cliches in trite, disappointing Marie Curie biopicJul 22, 2020 11:00 pm - "Radioactive" -- ★ ★ In Marjane Satrapi's bland and befuddling biopic “Radioactive,” brilliant scientist Marie Curie and her brilliant scientist husband Pierre Cur...
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Suspense film 'The Room' offers view of horrific fantasyJul 21, 2020 6:00 am - "The Room" - ★ ★ ★ Starring: Olga Christian Volckman's "The Room" sucks us into a vortex of unpredictable, imaginative fantasy as it explores what happens to a happily m...
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Streaming this week: Julia Garner is 'The Assistant,' out on Hulu
Jul 20, 2020 1:00 pm - 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 “The A...
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Naperville's Ogden 6 owner plans to reopen Kendall 11 theater in OswegoJul 20, 2020 1:00 am - It won't be exactly on Ogden anymore, and it won't have the same name. But the company behind Naperville's longtime Ogden 6 has bought another theater and intends to re...
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Warner Bros. postpones 'Tenet' release in U.S. in sign of covid concerns
Jul 19, 2020 11:00 pm - The saga of "Tenet" took another turn Monday as Warner Bros. said it was taking the anticipated Christopher Nolan thriller off its planned mid-August release date, confi...
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Gina Prince-Bythewood is the first black woman to direct a comic book movie. It looks like the future.
Jul 19, 2020 7:27 am - Conventional wisdom would have it that a violent, fantastical action thriller about a group of supernatural mercenaries doesn't lend itself to personal filmmaking. But w...
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London animation studio adapts to finish Disney film
Jul 18, 2020 7:24 am - LONDON - Hanging under blankets for audio soundproofing and working around patchy home Wi-Fi, a London animation studio is following the British motto of "keep calm and ...