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Yacht rock gets celebrated — smoothly, of course — in new documentary

By MARK KENNEDY
Nov 29, 2024 10:38 am - Time to relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-’70s songs of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross take center stage Friday in the Max doc “Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary.”
To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to lean how to breathe again

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 29, 2024 9:01 am - Angelina Jolie never expected to hit all the notes. But finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her. “The first few weeks were the hardest because my body had to open and I had to breathe again.”
How ‘Moana 2’ charted a course back to the big screen

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 27, 2024 7:24 pm - When you look at some of the numbers, it’s hard to believe “Moana 2” was ever going to be anything but a movie.
Holiday gift ideas for the movie lover, from bios and books to a status tote

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 27, 2024 6:55 pm - Stumped on what to buy for your cinephile friend this year? The Associated Press has gathered up some of the best items out there to keep any movie lover stylish and informed.
Learn about sustainable solutions at ‘Saving Walden’s World’ screening

Submitted by Pamela Biery
Nov 27, 2024 4:00 pm - The Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation will host a screening of the documentary “Saving Walden’s World” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Prairie Crossing’s Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake.
Mario Lopez holiday movie filmed in Long Grove set to debut Dec. 7

Daily Herald report
Nov 27, 2024 11:22 am - Get ready to see the suburbs’ favorite movie backdrop on screen again next week when “Once Upon a Christmas Wish” starring Mario Lopez premieres on the Great American Family channel.
Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 27, 2024 11:07 am - Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an affair that’s at turns melancholy, biting and grandly theatrical.
Though earnest and visually dazzling, ‘Moana 2’ is more dull than so shiny

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 26, 2024 2:04 pm - The warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in “Moana 2,” but little of the original’s humor or catchy songs finds its way into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel set three years after the original.
What to stream: Michael Fassbender spies, yacht rock doc, Ben Stiller, the Beatles and Lindsay Lohan

Nov 25, 2024 5:30 am - The Oscar-nominated animated charmer “Robot Dreams” and Lindsay Lohan starring in the Christmas romantic comedy “Our Little Secret” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator’ make gravity-defying theater debuts

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 24, 2024 3:05 pm - With a combined $270 million in worldwide ticket sales, “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” breathed fresh life into a box office that has struggled lately, leading to one of the busiest moviegoing weekends of the year.

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