Movies
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Cate Blanchett wants you to laugh at politics in ‘Rumours’Oct 21, 2024 2:52 pm - You’d be hard pressed to find a film weirder than “Rumours.” The biting commentary on the emptiness of political statements and the performances politicians put on starts off as a straight political satire focusing on the G7 world leaders, but then slips into a world of slow-yet-terrifying zombies and more.
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‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box office
Oct 21, 2024 9:06 am - Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts this weekend. “Smile 2,” in its first weekend, and “Terrifier 3” in its second proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences.
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What to stream: Bruce Springsteen doc, Halsey album, Billy Crystal on TV and the thriller ‘Trap’
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For his biggest role yet, former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris is once again ‘the Black dude’Oct 18, 2024 10:29 am - It hit him at odd times. Former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris would be walking the set of “Saturday Night,” the frantic new comedy of errors about the inaugural episode of SNL, and shake his head. He often wondered: What am I doing here?
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Lake Park film society to show the iconic psychological thriller ‘The Manchurian Candidate’Oct 17, 2024 7:54 pm - Fans have voted for this year's political themed film! Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society hosts its next screening on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
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Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis play father and daughter in ‘Goodrich’Oct 17, 2024 5:41 pm - Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.”
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It’s the end of the world, and Guy Maddin feels fine in ‘Rumours’
Oct 17, 2024 3:59 pm - “Rumours” is an unexpected development in the career of Canadian filmmaking maverick Guy Maddin: It almost looks like a normal movie. Don’t be fooled. Maddin delivers a disarmingly gonzo absurdist comedy about Western world leaders lost in the woods, figuratively and literally.
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Jane Fonda to receive lifetime achievement award from actors’ guild
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Anxiety of the female experience at heart of Anna Kendrick’s chilling ‘Woman of the Hour’
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Grin Reaper: Visceral visuals, sly humor prevent overstuffed ‘Smile 2’ from being frowned uponOct 17, 2024 5:30 am - A great horror movie dwells deep within Parker Finn’s enigmatic “Smile 2.” The film constantly keeps us off-kilter, employing a brutal barrage of mind-bending perspectives that plop us directly inside the embattled brain of a woman under psychic assault by a nebulous evil entity.