Movies
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GPS Parent Series to host film screening with ‘Best Buddies’Nov 04, 2024 10:46 pm - The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will host an evening with “Best Buddies“ with a film screening of “Saving Superman” on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at Glenbard West High School.
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What to stream: ‘Yellowstone’ starts its end, Eddie Redmayne as a sniper and Whitney Houston
Nov 04, 2024 5:30 am - Eddie Redmayne starring as a sniper for hire in the new limited series “The Day of the Jackal” and “Yellowstone” riding off into the sunset with the launch of its final episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Venom 3’ tops box office again, while Tom Hanks film struggles
Nov 03, 2024 5:33 pm - “Venom: The Last Dance” enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Maine school staple ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ from 1939 hits the big screen
Nov 01, 2024 8:19 am - Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story when “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” opens in suburban theaters Friday.
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Stop-motion charmer ‘Memoir of a Snail’ examines shells we build around us
Oct 31, 2024 6:02 pm - Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail” is a film that’s as heart-tugging as it is technically impressive, a work of both emotional resonance and great physical detail using only clay, wire, paper and paint.
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‘Juror #2’ another intentionally muddy moral tale from Clint Eastwood
Oct 31, 2024 11:18 am - Nicholas Hoult is an average Joe who gets called to serve on a jury to deliberate whether a young roughneck killed his girlfriend on a rainy nighttime road outside a roadhouse bar in “Juror #2.” But, of course, Clint Eastwood’s latest film isn’t as simple as that.
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A musical, pulpy crime thriller, ‘Emilia Pérez’ swings for the fences
Oct 31, 2024 5:30 am - There is so much going on in “Emilia Pérez,” the audacious musical/melodrama/crime-thriller from filmmaker Jacques Audiard, it’s impossible not to appreciate the sheer ambition of it all.
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‘Here’ isn’t there: Conceptually daring visuals blunt empathy, emotions in tiresome gimmick movieOct 31, 2024 5:30 am - “Here” is a conceptually daring, but tiresome gimmick movie, a virtually plotless, visually busy anthology of nonintersecting stories spanning zillions of years, and we feel as if we’ve seen most of them already.
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Christmas movie filmed in Northwest suburbs to air on HuluOct 28, 2024 4:58 pm - “Christmas on the Ranch,” a movie filmed in Long Grove and other suburban locations, will air on Hulu beginning Friday, Nov. 1.
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‘Road Diary’ underscores reasons to worship at the altar of Springsteen
Oct 28, 2024 3:05 pm - The new documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” on Hulu and Disney+ is for the true believers, if only because faith is the central tenet of every Springsteen fan.