Movies
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What to stream this week: Ariana Grande, ‘Wonka,’ Garth Brooks, animal queens and ‘Poor Things’
Mar 04, 2024 5:45 am - Emma Stone's “Poor Things” landing on Hulu and Garth Brooks taking viewers behind the scenes to the opening of his bar in Nashville are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Early opening just first of thrilling perks planned at McHenry OutdoorMar 03, 2024 11:01 pm - After his first foray into an extended season earned rave reviews, the owner of the McHenry Outdoor Theater in Lakemoor is raring to go for his earliest-ever season open...
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‘Dune: Part Two’ brings spice power to the box office with $81.5 million debut
Mar 03, 2024 3:19 pm - Movie theaters were looking for a savior and “Dune: Part Two” is delivering on the promise.
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An Oscars comeback? How the film academy went global and found its footing again
Mar 02, 2024 9:09 am - For a few years, the Oscars looked to be hanging on by a thread. Viewership was plummeting. The pandemic didn't help. Then a funny thing happened: Interest started increasing both in and outside the academy.
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African American Film Critics group celebrates Black Hollywood and beyond while building its stature
Mar 02, 2024 8:51 am - Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the African American Film Critics Association. Now, two decades later, AAFCA has grown in size and scope and built an admirable reputation in Hollywood.
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Black Film Summit returns to NIU Naperville March 20-23Mar 01, 2024 6:51 pm - The Black Film Summit returns to the Northern Illinois University-Naperville Conference Center March 20-23. It is a celebration of Pan African achievement in the cinema...
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We may be living in the golden age of older filmmakers. This year’s Oscars are evidence
Mar 01, 2024 10:25 am - Filmmaking, a rough-and-tumble business that requires an army of collaborators and millions in financing, can be a grueling endeavor. It’s not historically been the providence of octogenarians. But we may be living in the golden age of the aged filmmaker.
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Movie review: It’s lonely out in space for Adam Sandler in pensive sci-fi psychodrama ‘Spaceman’
Feb 29, 2024 6:59 am - When Adam Sandler, as moody Czech astronaut Jakub in Johan Renck's “Spaceman,” is asked during a broadcast to Earth if he's lonely, he answers in platitudes, but his eyes betray the truth. Yes, he is lonely. Very lonely.
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Ryan Gosling, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste set to perform at the Oscars
Feb 28, 2024 4:57 pm - The Oscars just got an infusion of Kenergy. Ryan Gosling will sing the pop power ballad “I’m Just Ken” at the show Sunday, March 10.
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‘Dune: Part Two’ sustains the dystopian dream of ‘Part One’
Feb 27, 2024 10:07 am - Like its predecessor, “Dune: Part Two” thrums with an intoxicating big-screen expressionism of monoliths and mosquitos, fevered visions and messianic fervor — more dystopian dream, or nightmare, than a straightforward narrative.