Movies
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COVID-friendly Fourth fun you can watch on TVJul 02, 2020 6:00 am - Here comes another big date on the calendar that won't be quite what we've come to expect from years past. Gone are the traditional suburban festivals and their firework...
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'John Lewis: Good Trouble' documentary feels propheticJul 02, 2020 6:00 am - Getting into “good trouble” is a guiding principle for John Lewis. It's not only OK, but necessary, to enact and inspire meaningful change. And it's not just rhetoric, ...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda's joyous, soul-searing 'Hamilton' a big plus for Disney+Jul 02, 2020 6:00 am - Some day we will surely get a legitimately cinematic movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's joyously soul-searing Broadway musical "Hamilton," all rapped up in red, white...
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'Whatever is happening in society will be represented by the comedians': Remembering Carl ReinerJun 30, 2020 1:00 am - Back in 1979, Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire participated in a news conference with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin. The event — to promote the release of the movie “Th...
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Why Libertyville's Phillipa Soo is blown away by new Hamilton movieJun 27, 2020 1:00 am - No matter how many theater credits Phillipa Soo accumulates over the course of her career, “Hamilton” — Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway blockbuster that begins streaming F...
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Widescreen: Five funny vacations you can take (on screen) with John HughesJun 26, 2020 6:00 am - Writer/director John Hughes was born in Michigan and died in New York, but his time at Glenbrook North High School inspired a career that left an indelible mark on Ameri...
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Movie theaters return, and cinema superheroes won't be the only ones with masksJun 26, 2020 5:00 am - Successfully rebooting local movie theaters sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic will depend on two make-or-break factors. First, earning the public's confidence that m...
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Will Ferrell's 'Eurovision' spoof strikes the right chords on NetflixJun 25, 2020 6:00 am - “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” Will Ferrell's goofy parody of the long-running European spectacle, is the first great comedy of 2020, and it couldn't...
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Review: Netflix's powerful 'Athlete A' chronicles abuse scandal at USA GymnasticsJun 25, 2020 6:00 am - One of the most tragic lines in the powerful documentary “Athlete A,” about sexual abuse in the USA Gymnastics, comes when the gymnast Jamie Dantzscher says Larry Nassar...
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Movie review: Jon Stewart's strained political satire not quite 'Irresistible'Jun 25, 2020 6:00 am - Director/writer Jon Stewart's second feature film "Irresistible" turns out to be a surprising bit of investigative reporting camouflaged as an irreverent, curiously edge...