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What to stream this week: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Benedict Cumberbatch

By The Associated Press
May 27, 2024 5:30 am - Willie Nelson’s 152nd album and Benedict Cumberbatch playing a curmudgeon puppeteer in “Eric” on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Furiosa,’ ‘Garfield’ lead slowest Memorial Day box office in decades

By LINDSEY BAHR
May 26, 2024 11:30 am - Movie theaters are looking more and more like a wasteland this summer. Neither “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” nor “The Garfield Movie” could save Memorial Day weekend, which is cruising toward a two-decade low.
J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in ‘Atlas’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
May 24, 2024 10:26 am - Let’s all be clear that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it's about the love story. And so if we tell you that now, we have J.Lo in “Atlas,” playing a data analyst who travels to a planet populated solely by evil AI bots preparing to extinguish humanity, well, your only question really should be, “Where’s the love story?”
‘The Keeper’ is unsubtle story of veteran suicide and a man on a mission

By Michael O'Sullivan
May 24, 2024 9:57 am - Inspired by the true story of George Eshleman, a U.S. Army veteran who, in 2016, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail while carrying the names of 363 veterans who died by suicide, “The Keeper” aims, above all, to raise awareness about a very real problem.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53

By MARK KENNEDY
May 24, 2024 9:56 am - Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.
With a new War Rig and a fleet of motorbikes, ‘Furiosa’ restarts the motorized mayhem of ‘Mad Max’

By JAKE COYLE
May 24, 2024 7:55 am - When it was time to start making “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” production designer Colin Gibson went to a garage in Australia to find some old friends.
Glen Powell gives big leading-man energy in ‘Hit Man’

By LINDSEY BAHR
May 23, 2024 12:53 pm - A suspension of disbelief is a prerequisite going into “Hit Man,” a decently entertaining action-comedy-romance about a fake hit man from filmmaker Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the script with star Glen Powell.
Highland Park’s Wayfarer Theaters reopens May 31 after extensive remodel

Daily Herald report
May 23, 2024 12:33 pm - Wayfarer Theaters will have a grand reopening of its five-screen venue in Highland Park on May 31 after extensive renovations.
McHenry Outdoor Theater begins daily showings Friday; kicks off getaway contest

Daily Herald report
May 23, 2024 12:31 pm - Starting Friday, the McHenry Outdoor Theater in Lakemoor switches from being open weekends only to operating seven days a week with a double feature of “The Garfield Movie” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
‘Babes’ is a giddy, raunchy, moving and (very) gooey look at childbirth and friendship

By JOCELYN NOVECK
May 23, 2024 5:30 am - “Babes” — director Pamela Adlon’s brash, chaotic, hilarious and occasionally overly gooey (in so many ways) childbirth comedy — may not be your thing if you get queasy at the mention of the word placenta.

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