Movies
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McHenry Outdoor raises breast cancer awareness, fundsOct 01, 2025 9:55 am - Oct. 10-11 at the McHenry Outdoor Theater will be all about making some joyful noise on behalf of breast cancer awareness.
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Matthew McConaughey steers a white-knuckle wildfire drama in ‘The Lost Bus’
Sep 29, 2025 5:18 pm - In “The Lost Bus,” filmmaker Paul Greengrass and co-screenwriter Brad Ingelsby have made an old-fashioned disaster movie that is captivating, frightening and startlingly moving.
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McHenry Outdoor Theatre to host ‘Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl’
Sep 29, 2025 2:57 pm - The McHenry Outdoor Theatre is hosting “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4.
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What to stream: Taylor Swift, Matthew McConaughey, Jacinda Ardern, Glen Powell and Ghost of Yotei
Sep 29, 2025 12:13 pm - Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” and Matthew McConaughey playing the real-life bus driver who saved elementary school students during California’s deadliest wildfire are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Master of the movie gimmick: Learn about William Castle’s cult classic films at St. Charles librarySep 28, 2025 11:35 pm - On Oct 1, film historian Annette Bochenek will present "The Films of William Castle" at the St. Charles Public Library, exploring the master of movie gimmicks and his iconic films like "House on Haunted Hill," "The Tingler," and "13 Ghosts."
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‘One Battle After Another’ opens with $22.4 million
Sep 28, 2025 1:20 pm - “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely acclaimed American epic of rebellion and resistance, opened with $22.4 million in ticket sales from North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Laila Lockhart Kraner carries ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ positivity to DreamWorks’ live-action hybrid film
Sep 25, 2025 4:14 pm - When Laila Lockhart Kraner first slipped on the headband and cat ears for “Gabby’s Dollhouse” at age 11, she couldn’t have predicted how her character’s mantras of positivity and resilience and “failing fantastically” without giving up would shape her own life.
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How does June Squibb do it at age 95? ‘I just gird my loins and go!’
Sep 25, 2025 11:13 am - There are 70-year-olds who want to be like June Squibb when they grow up. Squibb, 95, wasn’t the lead of a movie until she was 94. Now, a year after she turned action star in “Thelma,” Squibb is again the leading lady for “Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
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Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots will trigger tears in ‘All of You’
Sep 25, 2025 10:11 am - “All of You” from Apple TV+ walks carefully into this age-old premise — of best friends meant to be lovers — sweetly and with more honesty than typical Hollywood fare. It’s messy and romantic and both deeply sad and deeply soulful.
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Friendship, grief and June Squibb in ‘Eleanor the Great’
Sep 25, 2025 5:15 am - There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of “Eleanor the Great.” The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her feature debut, gets tangled in a plot contrivance that is, at best, unnecessary and at worst, loathsome.