Movies
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Linkin Park documentary ‘Unshatter’ tracks band’s emotional return to recording, touring
Oct 11, 2026 8:55 am - For years after the death of frontman Chester Bennington, members of Linkin Park weren’t sure if the band would — or should — continue to exist. The new documentary “Linkin Park: Unshatter” takes fans inside the uncertainty, grief and creative risk behind their return, including raw footage of early recording sessions, conversations and experimentation that eventually led to Emily Armstrong joining the group.
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Lake Park Film Appreciation Society event to showcase two German-themed classicsOct 09, 2026 10:50 am - On Oct. 14, the Lake Park High School Film Appreciation Society and Lake Park German Exchange Program will host a German-themed double feature in the West Campus auditorium in Roselle, featuring “Run Lola Run” and “The Third Man.”
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Movie Review: In Ben Affleck’s ‘Animals,’ a kidnapping threatens a mayoral campaign
Oct 09, 2026 7:27 am - Ben Affleck, who directed, co-wrote and stars in “Animals,” never finds much of a pulse in his lackluster Akira Kurosawa riff for Netflix. In transferring the story to Los Angeles, Affleck opens the hostage story up to new thematic fronts — divorce, public persona, duplicity — that have meaningful reverberations for him.
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Indian actor and filmmaker Nana Patekar dies at 75
Oct 08, 2026 9:42 am - Nana Patekar, an acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker, died Thursday at his home in the western state of Goa. He was 75.
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Movie Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Misty Green’ with astonishing Rosalind Eleazar nicely skewers Hollywood
Oct 08, 2026 5:15 am - Ten years ago, moviegoers got a love letter to Los Angeles in the achingly sweet “La La Land,” where characters danced on air. Gravity arrives a decade later in Chris Rock’s terrific poison pen letter to the city, “Misty Green.”
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Movie Review: Is Palme d’Or winning ‘Fjord’ a movie for these divided times?
Oct 08, 2026 5:15 am - In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,” the prickly Romanian Palme d’Or winner opening in theaters this weekend. It’s built to get under your skin.
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Movie review: ‘The Social Reckoning’ lacks nuance but delivers a meaningful messageOct 07, 2026 8:50 am - If David Fincher’s 2010 tech drama “The Social Network” was about Mark Zuckerberg’s legal battle to secure the Facebook bag, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” arriving 15 years later, is about the burden of what it means to carry that bag.
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Best Bets: Raue Center welcomes master satirist David SedarisOct 06, 2026 9:47 am - David Sedaris shares stories at the Raue Center for this Arts, The Morton Arboretum hosts its annual glass pumpkin display, pianist Drew Petersen joins the Elgin Symphony Orchestra for its season-opening weekend and fans salute John Prine at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music.
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Paramount and Warner Bros are now one Hollywood giant: Skydance. Here’s how we got here
Oct 06, 2026 8:26 am - It’s official: Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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On cusp of merger, ‘Digger’ bombs for Warner Bros., ‘Verity’ takes No. 1 at box office
Oct 05, 2026 7:22 am - On the cusp of the studio’s merger with Paramount, Warner Bros.’ “Digger” flopped in its opening weekend, handing Tom Cruise one of the worst debuts of his career and serving as a bitter final note for Warner Bros. as a standalone studio.