Movies
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Movie Review: ‘It Ends With Us’ tackles big issues, but is melodramatic
Aug 07, 2024 6:40 pm - “It Ends With Us,” starring Blake Lively, tries to balance the realities of domestic violence inside a rom-com and a female-empowerment movie. All suffer in the process.
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Movie review: In ‘The Instigators,’ a heist goes terrifically wrong
Aug 07, 2024 9:38 am - Though depression lurks around the edges of “The Instigators,” Doug Liman’s heist movie is a loosely amiable return to South Boston for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film.
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Book Review: ‘The Future Was Now’ a brilliant look back at the groundbreaking movie summer of '82
Aug 06, 2024 12:22 pm - The moments are seared into the pop culture pantheon. And our collective consciousness. A friendly alien taking Henry Thomas’ character Elliott on an airborne bike ride ...
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What to stream this week: Matt Damon on a heist, ‘Dance Moms’ jazz it up and J Balvin parties
Aug 05, 2024 6:34 am - Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its final season and a Boston heist movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are some of the new television, films, music an...
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Meet Eddie Munster at the drive-in: Actor Butch Patrick to appear at McHenry Outdoor Theatre
Aug 03, 2024 2:29 pm - Actor Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on “The Munsters,” is testing the waters for a planned collaboration with outdoor theaters nationwide. He’ll appear at the McHenry Outdoor Theatre on Aug. 14.
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Britney Spears biopic will be made by Universal with Jon M. Chu as director
Aug 02, 2024 10:21 am - NEW YORK — Universal Pictures has landed the rights to Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” and will develop a biopic of the pop star to be directed by Jon M. Chu, th...
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Josh Hartnett goes big as a serial killer in 'Trap'
Aug 02, 2024 10:20 am - In our spoiler phobic culture, movie trailers don't often offer a lot of information. So it seemed like a particularly bold and even confusing move for " Trap," the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan, to reveal so much so soon.
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In ‘COUP!’ find a sharp ‘comedy of menace,’ with Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen
Aug 01, 2024 11:02 am - “COUP!,” in theaters Friday, Aug. 2, is the kind of original script that doesn’t often see the light of day. Its tonal and aesthetic inspirations range from the works of playwright Harold Pinter to Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel” and the genre-bending work of the Coen brothers.
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‘Didi’ is a warm, nostalgic hug straight from 2008
Jul 31, 2024 4:03 pm - We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three things are harder to come by. “Didi,” the semi-autobiographical debut from director, writer and producer Sean Wang, delivers just that.
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‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ brings beloved book to life in a familiar storyJul 31, 2024 3:55 pm - “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release with Zachary Levi as the endearing Harold.