Movies
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Statham’s ‘A Working Man’ upsets ‘Snow White’ to take No. 1 at the box office
Mar 30, 2025 2:55 pm - In an unexpected upset, the Jason Statham thriller “A Working Man” took No. 1 at the box office, besting the rapidly declining “Snow White,” according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Can the ‘feel-good’ movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ proves maybe it can
Mar 28, 2025 1:26 pm - By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how it speaks to now. But that’s not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of the many charms of “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is that it has no intentions of timeliness.
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Sundance Film Festival to relocate to Colorado in 2027
Mar 27, 2025 2:21 pm - After a yearlong search, the Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that its new home will be Boulder, Colorado, keeping Sundance in the mountains but moving it out of Park City, the Utah ski town that had for decades provided the premier independent film gathering its picturesque, snowy backdrop.
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Wheaton church to host One Earth Film Festival April 25Mar 26, 2025 11:04 pm - Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton will host the “One Earth Film Festival: Power in Unity” on Friday, April 25.
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Action, gore dominate suspense and scares in violently funny ‘Death of a Unicorn’Mar 26, 2025 4:04 pm - As a fantasy-horror-comedy steeped in mythology, writer/director Alex Scharfman’s “Death of a Unicorn” goes for action over suspense. But as a sassy class satire, “Death” delivers a timely expose of the semantic tactics of control and disinformation sowed by the hilariously clueless, selfish rich elite.
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Jason Statham takes on the mob in blue-collar action thriller ‘A Working Man’
Mar 26, 2025 4:03 pm - Jason Statham is cosplaying a construction laborer when “A Working Man” begins. But soon enough, he will be doing what he does best in an action movie made by millionaires that hopes to tap into blue-collar chic. He plays a sort of hero-laying-low who’s tasked with finding his boss’ kidnapped daughter.
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What to stream: ‘Mufasa: The Lion King,’ Timothée Chalamet, Will Smith, Seth Rogen and Atomfall
Mar 24, 2025 5:30 am - Coming to streaming this week: Timothée Chalamet becomes Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” and Seth Rogen stars in a new Hollywood satire called “The Studio” for Apple TV+.
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‘Snow White’ opens with a sleepy $43 million at box office
Mar 23, 2025 2:29 pm - The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Remember Me? ‘Coco 2’ in the works at Disney and Pixar
Mar 21, 2025 8:08 am - “Coco” is getting a sequel. Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said Thursday that “Coco 2” is currently in development at Pixar Animation Studios.
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Even 2 De Niros aren’t quite enough to make ‘Alto Knights’ a successor to ‘Goodfellas’
Mar 20, 2025 2:22 pm - Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights,” which aims but fails to channel the magic of decades-old mob movies like “Goodfellas,” is all about Robert De Niro. He plays both lead roles, feuding mobsters Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, in a story based on real events.