Movies
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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.
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Fine Line and AfterImage Film Fest host showing of documentary on the ‘Painter of Light’Apr 07, 2025 9:41 pm - St. Charles’ Fine Line is partnering with local film festival to screen acclaimed documentary on famed artist Thomas Kinkade.
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What to stream: Jon Hamm in ‘Your Friends & Neighbors, ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Pets’
Apr 07, 2025 6:00 am - Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” returning for its sixth and final season and Viola Davis playing a U.S. president in the action movie “G20” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Lake Park film society to show Billy Wilder classic ‘Stalag 17’Apr 06, 2025 10:18 pm - Lake Park High will host free screening of 1953 film "Stalag 17" on Wednesday, April 16. Will the suspected Nazi spy in the POW camp be revealed?
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Hollywood lands a much-needed box office hit with ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Apr 06, 2025 4:46 pm - Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year’s box office deficit.
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Vintage movie poster sale benefits Catlow TheatreApr 05, 2025 3:34 pm - Patrons had an opportunity to obtain a vintage, original movie poster during a sale Saturday to benefit the Catlow Theatre in Barrington.
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Three’s a crowd in the wistful ‘Ballad of Wallis Island’
Apr 04, 2025 8:23 am - If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and subtracted half of the loveliness and charm, you might end up with “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a sweet little British comedy that tickles the senses as you watch it, then immediately evaporates.
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Stealing the show: Star of ‘The Friend’ is a very good boy
Apr 03, 2025 3:56 pm - The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre. He has those classic Hollywood features — instantly accessible, forever unknowable — and when he walks down the street with his co-stars, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, people’s heads turn. He’s Bing the Great Dane.