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Steve McQueen’s WWII drama ‘Blitz’ is more unconventional than it appears

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 06, 2024 1:28 pm - “Blitz,” set in London during World War II, might technically be Steve McQueen’s first war movie. But struggle and survival has long marked the filmmaker’s tough and tortured work. In this film, a 9-year-old boy fights to get back home after being sent to safety in the countryside.
Hugh Grant spent half his career in rom-coms. Now he plays monsters, and he’s never been happier

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 05, 2024 2:58 pm - After decades in romantic comedies, Hugh Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murderers. But in “Heretic,” a horror thriller from A24, Grant’s turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme.
Best Bets: Patinkin, Grody at the MAC, Maniscalco at United Center, Winkler in Woodstock

By Barbara Vitello
Nov 05, 2024 2:30 pm - Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody share personal stories at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn, Sebastian Maniscalco headlines Chicago’s United Center, and Henry Winkler chats about his life at the Woodstock Opera House.
Hugh Grant diabolically good as a villainous scholar in religious thriller ‘Heretic’

By Dann Gire
Nov 05, 2024 12:27 pm - Once two missionaries (Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher) settle in to discuss religion with Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) in the religious thriller “Heretic,” the directors turn him into a congenial spider that has us —along with his guests — in his tightly crafted web.
GPS Parent Series to host film screening with ‘Best Buddies’

By Peg Mannion, Glenbard District 87
Nov 04, 2024 10:46 pm - The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will host an evening with “Best Buddies“ with a film screening of “Saving Superman” on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at Glenbard West High School.
What to stream: ‘Yellowstone’ starts its end, Eddie Redmayne as a sniper and Whitney Houston

Nov 04, 2024 5:30 am - Eddie Redmayne starring as a sniper for hire in the new limited series “The Day of the Jackal” and “Yellowstone” riding off into the sunset with the launch of its final episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Venom 3’ tops box office again, while Tom Hanks film struggles

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 03, 2024 5:33 pm - “Venom: The Last Dance” enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Maine school staple ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ from 1939 hits the big screen

By DAVID SHARP
Nov 01, 2024 8:19 am - Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story when “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” opens in suburban theaters Friday.
Stop-motion charmer ‘Memoir of a Snail’ examines shells we build around us

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 31, 2024 6:02 pm - Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail” is a film that’s as heart-tugging as it is technically impressive, a work of both emotional resonance and great physical detail using only clay, wire, paper and paint.
‘Juror #2’ another intentionally muddy moral tale from Clint Eastwood

By Ty Burr
Oct 31, 2024 11:18 am - Nicholas Hoult is an average Joe who gets called to serve on a jury to deliberate whether a young roughneck killed his girlfriend on a rainy nighttime road outside a roadhouse bar in “Juror #2.” But, of course, Clint Eastwood’s latest film isn’t as simple as that.

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