Movies
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Sub-woofer: Adams’ fiercely engaging performance drives tame adult fairy taleDec 04, 2024 4:37 pm - This provocative black comedy owes its narrative propulsion to Amy Adams’ harried, emotionally buried Mother of a 4-year-old boy, and wife of a benignly neglectful, stay-away-from-home husband.
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Daniel Craig is a revelation in ‘Queer,’ a trippy tale of longing
Dec 04, 2024 4:29 pm - One of the first real signs that “Queer” is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early ’50s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana.
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‘Anora,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ lead Spirit Award nominations
Dec 04, 2024 11:13 am - “Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with six nods each, including best film and best director.
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‘The Brutalist’ tops New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Carol Kane, Adrien Brody win acting prizes
Dec 03, 2024 4:35 pm - Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour postwar epic “The Brutalist” won best film from the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday, while its lead, Adrien Brody, also won best actor.
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Dark comedy ‘A Different Man’ surprisingly triumphs at Gotham Awards
Dec 03, 2024 7:02 am - In a surprise that stunned the audience of Hollywood’s first big awards-season bash, “A Different Man,” a dark comedy about doppelgängers, deformity and authenticity in acting, won best feature film at the 34th Gotham Awards on Monday night.
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Santa to greet visitors at McHenry Outdoor Theater Dec. 6-7, 13-14Dec 02, 2024 8:56 pm - Fortunately for area theater buffs, and before things grow altogether too hectic for him, Santa plans to check out the McHenry Outdoor Theater in Lakemoor Dec. 6-7 and 13-14.
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What to stream: Sabrina Carpenter holiday special, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ and Rosé goes solo
Dec 02, 2024 5:30 am - Sabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series “Black Doves" are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Moana 2’ sails to a record $221 million opening as Hollywood celebrates a moviegoing feastDec 01, 2024 1:46 pm - Christmas came early at the box office this year. “Moana 2” brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, setting records with $221 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Yacht rock gets celebrated — smoothly, of course — in new documentary
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.”
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To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to lean how to breathe again
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.”