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Filmmakers can still send in entries for Elgin Short Film Festival

Submitted by Jenny Sherman
Jul 13, 2024 6:04 pm - There’s still time for filmmakers to submit entries to the 16th annual Elgin Short Film Festival. This festival will be on Saturday, Oct. 5.
For Nicolas Cage, making a serial killer horror movie was a healing experience

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Jul 12, 2024 10:13 am - When Nicolas Cage first read the script for “Longlegs” and considered playing the titular serial killer, he knew exactly where he’d draw his inspiration from: his mother.
‘Dandelion’ strums a slow, sweet tale of indie music dreams

By Ty Burr
Jul 12, 2024 10:03 am - One wants to give the benefit of the doubt to “Dandelion,” a sweet, slight, impressionistic character study of a struggling musician with a luminous KiKi Layne at its center.
Redbox shuts down after its parent company files for bankruptcy

By Samantha Chery
Jul 11, 2024 3:15 pm - Redbox and its tens of thousands of nostalgia-laden movie-rental kiosks are shutting down, officially ending a vestige of the physical-media era. The streaming and video ...
‘Sorry/Not Sorry’ takes on Louis C.K. but not the toughest questions

By Michael O'Sullivan
Jul 11, 2024 2:47 pm - “Sorry/Not Sorry” opens with a voice: “I love you, be a good dog, please.” We will later learn the voice belong to artist and comedian Abby Schachner, one of five women who, in 2017, publicly accused comedian Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct.
Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville,’ dies at 75

By JAKE COYLE
Jul 11, 2024 11:24 am - Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75.
Scarlett Johansson lends star power to earthbound ‘Fly Me to the Moon’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jul 11, 2024 5:30 am - “Fly Me to the Moon” is better than it looks. This is not a slam against the marketing campaign for the space race rom-com about a straight-laced NASA man (Channing Tatum) and the Madison Avenue marketing savant (Scarlett Johansson) brought in to sell the mission to the moon. It’s more about the state of theatrical moviegoing.
The scariest movie of the year (so far) is ‘Longlegs,’ by a mile

By Jen Yamato
Jul 11, 2024 5:30 am - Nerve-jangling and devilishly bleak, “Longlegs” is easily the front-runner for scariest movie of 2024. Set during the drab 1990s of Clinton-era America, it throbs with a bone-chilling sense of dread, a marvelous piece of supernatural horror wearing the skin of a serial killer thriller that weaves a lasting, sinister spell.
Kevin Costner’s second ‘Horizon’ film pulled from theatrical release

By JAKE COYLE
Jul 10, 2024 2:36 pm - The August theatrical release for the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s ambitious Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga” has been canceled after the first film fizzled in theaters.
Outdoor family movie night series continues with ‘Migration’

Submitted by Al Benson
Jul 10, 2024 12:30 pm - Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will continue its summer family movie night series at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17. "Migration," the 2023 anim...

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