Movies
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Will Ferrell hits the road with an old new friend in ‘Will & Harper’
Sep 23, 2024 12:32 pm - A road trip across the United States turns into a testament to self-acceptance and allyship in the tender, heartfelt documentary “Will and Harper,” in which Will Ferrell and longtime pal Harper Steele, who has recently come out as trans, embark on a cross-country quest.
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ scares off ‘Transformers’ for third week as box office No. 1
Sep 23, 2024 6:48 am - It’s a three-peat for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” The Tim Burton legacy sequel to his 1988 horror comedy topped the North American box office charts for the third straight weekend with $26 million in ticket sales.
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What to Stream: Ellen, Will & Harper, a Legend of Zelda game and two Ryan Murphy TV seriesSep 23, 2024 5:30 am - What Ellen DeGeneres says is her last comedy special landing on Netflix and George Clooney and Brad Pitt starring in a sleek, New York City caper are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Bensenville’s ‘Noche de Película’ to feature ‘A Million Miles Away’ Sept. 21Sep 20, 2024 3:30 pm - The Bensenville Park District announced its final installment of the summer “Movie in the Park” series, “Noche de Película,” featuring the real-live adventure “A Million Miles Away.”
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Q&A: Damien Chazelle, Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons on ‘Whiplash’ returning to theaters after 10 years
Sep 20, 2024 2:57 pm - Ten years after “Whiplash” took the film world by storm, Damien Chazelle’s breakthrough feature is returning to theaters nationwide Friday.
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Clooney and Pitt carry the fixer caper ‘Wolfs’
Sep 19, 2024 2:31 pm - The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination. It’s that Clooney and Pitt aren’t pals — at least at first.
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‘Transformers One’ is an origin story no one wants with brutality levels no one needs
Sep 19, 2024 5:30 am - Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes. Did anyone ask for this?
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Visionary horror film ‘The Substance’ guaranteed to shock, amaze and repulseSep 17, 2024 6:03 pm - “The Substance,” starring an excellent Demi Moore, comes from director/writer Coralie Fargeat, who elevates an exploitation premise into an explosively visionary, blackly comic cinematic experience that rails against society’s addiction to superficiality.
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What to Stream: Keith Urban, ‘The Golden Bachelorette,’ Zack Snyder series and ‘WandaVision’ spinoff
Sep 16, 2024 5:30 am - Keith Urban’s 12th studio album and Kathryn Hahn starring in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is No. 1 again; conservative doc ‘Am I Racist’ cracks box office top 5
Sep 15, 2024 8:23 pm - Moviegoers said yes to more “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” this weekend. After its monster opening, the Tim Burton sequel easily topped the domestic box office charts again with $51.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.