Movies
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In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor seek the roots of racismJan 18, 2024 12:39 pm - Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfr...
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‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ lead the race for Britain’s BAFTA film awardsJan 18, 2024 7:20 am - Atom-bomb epic “Oppenheimer” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 13 categories including best film. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” rece...
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In ‘The Teachers’ Lounge,’ one middle school is a microcosm of a troubled worldJan 18, 2024 5:45 am - What happens in the teachers’ lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, lig...
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In ‘I.S.S.,’ war on Earth disrupts life aboard the International Space StationJan 18, 2024 5:45 am - With war raging in Ukraine and U.S.-Russia relations below freezing, the Cold War movie may be alive, again, too. After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nucl...
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Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ is a powerful, artful interpretation of ‘Caste’Jan 18, 2024 5:45 am - Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (OK, I) ca...
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Elgin native, Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Shales dead at 79Jan 17, 2024 6:10 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, an Elgin native whose witty, incisive observations inspired both respect and fear, according to The New York Times, d...
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At 40, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its past and looks to the futureJan 16, 2024 12:08 pm - Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, they’d come to Park City, Utah, armed with a short film “Gowa...
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What to stream this week: ‘Fallen Leaves’ romancing, Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and ‘Fast X’ explodingJan 15, 2024 5:45 am - Jason Momoa hosting a new travel docuseries for Max called “On the Roam” and the Finnish romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves” are some of the new television, movies, music and...
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‘Mean Girls’ takes 1st place at the box office. So fetch.Jan 14, 2024 12:17 pm - Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn’t dampen the opening weekend for “Mean Girls.” The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 20...
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ advance with Producers Guild nominationsJan 12, 2024 12:43 pm - “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” will face off at yet another awards ceremony this season, this time at the Producers Guild Awards where they are among the 10 films nominated f...