Movies
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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.
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Life flies by in Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield romance ‘We Live In Time’
Oct 17, 2024 5:30 am - It’s not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall in love. In “We Live In Time,” filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience up close and personal with this British couple through the highs and lows of a relationships in their 30s.
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Film chronicling Obama’s rise to make Chicago debutOct 15, 2024 8:43 pm - “Things Are Tough All Over” will make its Chicago debut on Monday, Oct. 28, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. It is set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
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Christopher Reeve’s kids wanted to be ‘honest, raw and vulnerable’ in new documentary ‘Super/Man’
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What to stream: ‘The Dating Game’ killer, ‘NCIS: Origins’ and Travis Kelce’s games
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‘Terrifier 3’ slashes ‘Joker’ to take No. 1 at the box office
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Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth lethargic under the Moroccan sun in ‘Lonely Planet’
Oct 11, 2024 8:53 am - You’re supposed to root for love in romance movies — it’s kind of the whole point — but Netflix’s age-gap affair “Lonely Planet,” about a novelist with a creative block who falls for a man 20 years her junior, manages to achieve the opposite.
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Lake Park film society to show Cary Grant classic ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’Oct 10, 2024 5:36 pm - Fans have voted for this year's Halloween themed film! Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society hosts its next screening on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
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Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan know the risks with ‘The Apprentice’
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Elgin Short Film Fest winners announcedOct 10, 2024 4:01 pm - Chicago area and national filmmakers took the top prizes at the 16th annual Elgin Short Film Festival held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Hemmens Cultural Center.