Movies
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New this week: Spike Lee flick, 'Artemis Fowl' and Norah Jones
Jun 09, 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 "Da 5 B...
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Constable: Great Scott! Suburban father and son build 'Back to the Future' guitarJun 09, 2020 5:33 am - As a teenager in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Steve Doner played trumpet in the high school band, and he learned enough in an electronics class to start a business setting up sp...
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AMC says it expects 97%-98% of its theaters reopened by mid-JulyJun 09, 2020 1:00 am - NEW YORK - After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen - even if it means only a few titles on the marquee an...
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Pandemic, redevelopment combine to close Ogden 6 in NapervilleJun 08, 2020 1:00 am - The screens at Classic Cinemas Ogden 6 Theatres showed their final films March 16. It's not how ownership imagined closing the longtime movie house, which sits on the f...
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Widescreen: 'Goonies' celebrates 35 years with a treasure chest full of goodiesJun 05, 2020 9:00 am - Any movie's milestone anniversary gives the marketing department a good reason to hype an old catalog title, and Sunday will be the 35th trip around the sun for a movie ...
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Hulu's 'We Are Freestyle Love Supreme' a treat for Lin-Manuel Miranda fansJun 05, 2020 6:00 am - Editor's note: The release of this film has been postponed. It will be available at a later date. There's a great moment in the documentary “We Are Freestyle Love S...
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Dann Gire: 10 films to promote understanding during these trying timesJun 04, 2020 11:00 pm - The late Roger Ebert famously referred to the movies as “empathy machines” capable of fostering common understanding between people of different races, religions, politi...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda doc postponed out of solidarity with protesters
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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...