Movies
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What to stream: Jude Law as a fed, a ‘Law & Order’ reunion and David Oyelowo in an oddball comedy
Apr 14, 2025 5:30 am - Jude Law playing an FBI agent in the movie “The Order” and Mariska Hargitay reuniting with her old partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, on “Law and Order: Organized Crime” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ stomps to $80.6 million in second weekend
Apr 13, 2025 4:02 pm - After just two weeks in theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” is already the highest grossing Hollywood release of 2025.
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2025 Elgin Short Film Festival now accepting entriesApr 11, 2025 8:46 pm - The city of Elgin and the Elgin Short Film Festival is accepting submission for the 17th annual Elgin Short Film Festival, set for Sept. 20.
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Oscars to add stunt design award for its 100th ceremony
Apr 11, 2025 7:02 am - After many years of impassioned calls for an Oscar recognizing the art of the stunt, the film academy has decided to give it an official award.
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‘Sacramento’ is a road comedy that gets stuck in second gear
Apr 10, 2025 5:01 pm - It takes its sweet and sour time getting there, but eventually “Sacramento” finds a satisfying seriocomic groove in the plight of men facing the prospect of fatherhood and realizing adulthood has to come along for the ride.
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Addison Cinema to host ‘Drop: Murder Mystery Screening’ FridayApr 10, 2025 1:55 pm - Like the characters on-screen, audience members at a special immersive screening at 7:30 p.m. Friday of the new thriller “Drop” will be plunged into mystery via AirDrop at Addison Cinema.
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Documenting a difficult year in the life of a Beatle and his wife
Apr 10, 2025 11:31 am - It takes nerve to make a documentary about the most unpopular period of a massively popular public figure’s life. “One to One: John & Yoko” demonstrates that it’s worth the effort.
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Rami Malek wants revenge in starry, globe-trotting action pic ‘The Amateur’
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - As star of “The Amateur,” Rami Malek gets to be both skittish nerd and coolly competent angel of death. He’s the perpetual rule-follower who in grief-stricken madness decides to blackmail his bosses and go on an international killing spree to get the people responsible for his love’s death.
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‘Drop’ is a fun, gimmicky thriller set at one restaurant table
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - We all have worst first-date stories, but Violet (Meghann Fahy) in “Drop” takes the prize: She’s receiving mysterious phone messages saying that her young son, left at home while she dines out, will die unless she murders the nice man sitting across the table from her.
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‘Warfare’ a tautly effective portrait of tedium and sheer terror
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - “Warfare” is an engrossing, well-crafted account of a real-life episode during the Iraq War in 2006 when a platoon of Navy SEALs commandeered a house in Ramadi for use as a surveillance location without knowing the opposition had surrounded them.