Movies
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13 overlooked horror films to check out before HalloweenSep 21, 2020 6:00 am - Every year around this time, the nation's top film critics should gather together for a giant Zoom meeting to hash out a list of the 13 most overlooked scary movies for ...
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Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae's 'Antebellum'
Sep 21, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Janelle Monae says she “felt so much rage and anger” when she stepped onto a former slave plantation for the first time to film the psychological thriller “An...
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Outlook not improving for beleaguered US movie theaters
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As movie theaters reopen nationwide, some employees are reluctant to return
Sep 20, 2020 6:23 am - To a populace desperate for even a bit of normalcy, reopened movie theaters can be tempting. They've long granted a reprieve from harsh realities, the sort staring us in...
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Susan Sarandon radiant as she faces death head-on in family drama 'Blackbird'Sep 18, 2020 6:00 am - “Blackbird” — ★ ★ ★ Lily the matriarch sure knows how to wake her family and get them moving in the morning. “You up yet?” she shouts upstairs. “I'm dead soon! You...
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'Antebellum' a provocative idea that doesn't quite work
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With quiet humanity, Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' makes noise
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'The Way I See It' captures all the subleties of Pete Souza's job as the former official White House photographerSep 17, 2020 6:00 am - “The Way I See It” — ★ ★ ★ ½ Dawn Porter's subversively Gandhi-esque “The Way I See It” doesn't look like a political hit job on President Donald Trump. It appears...
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Glenview Chamber offering another of its popular drive-in movie nightsSep 16, 2020 1:00 am - Betsy Baer, executive director of the Glenview Chamber of Commerce, was pretty sure residents would be excited about the drive-in movie events they'd planned. That's the...
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Netflix defends 'Cuties' as 'social commentary' against sexualizing young girls