Movies
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Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth lethargic under the Moroccan sun in ‘Lonely Planet’
Oct 11, 2024 8:53 am - You’re supposed to root for love in romance movies — it’s kind of the whole point — but Netflix’s age-gap affair “Lonely Planet,” about a novelist with a creative block who falls for a man 20 years her junior, manages to achieve the opposite.
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Lake Park film society to show Cary Grant classic ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’Oct 10, 2024 5:36 pm - Fans have voted for this year's Halloween themed film! Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society hosts its next screening on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
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Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan know the risks with ‘The Apprentice’
Oct 10, 2024 5:07 pm - Even in an election year, most seem to agree on one aspect about Ali Abbasi’s much-debated Donald Trump film “The Apprentice”: Sebastian Stan is a remarkably good Trump and Jeremy Strong is chillingly riveting as the New York power broker Roy Cohn.
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Elgin Short Film Fest winners announcedOct 10, 2024 4:01 pm - Chicago area and national filmmakers took the top prizes at the 16th annual Elgin Short Film Festival held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Hemmens Cultural Center.
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Christopher Reeve doc ‘Super/Man’ brings on the waterworks
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‘Piece by Piece,’ a very odd Lego doc about Pharrell Williams, snaps together somehow
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How did Trump become Trump? ‘The Apprentice’ has a theory
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‘Still Working 9 to 5’ documentary to be shown at College of DuPageOct 08, 2024 10:00 pm - The documentary film “Still Working 9 to 5” will be screened at the College of DuPage on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
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Best Bets: Pumpkins galore at Chicago Botanic’s Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-LanternsOct 08, 2024 1:00 pm - The Chicago Botanic Garden hosts its annual Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes headline Chronic Con in Rosemont and the 60th Chicago International Film Festival will screen more than 120 features and 70 shorts.
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What to stream: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,’ ‘Outer Banks’ and Charli XCX remixes