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Widescreen: Andrew Lloyd Webber's free videos became my pandemic soundtrack

By Sean Stangland
May 08, 2020 6:00 am - "Night time sharpens / Heightens each sensation" - "The Music of the Night," from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" • • • "School days, school days / Dear...
Their St. Charles home held the history of lesbian couple featured in Netflix doc

By Lauren Rohr
May 08, 2020 5:00 am - The night her family moved into their historic St. Charles home last summer, Elizabeth Suwanski sauntered into the dining room to admire a display case of memorabilia fr...
Night out at the movies! McHenry drive-in delivers double bill with pandemic precautions

By Barbara Vitello
May 08, 2020 1:00 am - To the delight of socially distanced, movie-loving suburbanites eager for a night out after more than six weeks in, the McHenry Outdoor Theater reopened Friday. The "pr...
Storytelling, performances elevate grim gang film 'Blue Story'

By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press
May 07, 2020 6:00 am - War is futile. War is a waste. War lays ruin to generations of promising young people. It's the message of so many war films, but even more when the war in question is n...
A teen turns snarky rock critic in film comedy 'How to Build a Girl'

By Ann Hornaday The Washington Post
May 07, 2020 6:00 am - To every girl who watched “Almost Famous” and “High Fidelity” and bears the scars of trying to shoehorn her inner self into the male protagonist's cramped psyche, “How t...
Netflix's 'Becoming' charts journey of Michelle Obama

By Lindsey Bahr Associated Press
May 06, 2020 5:00 am - In the lovely new Netflix documentary “Becoming,” set around Michelle Obama's book tour for her memoir, the former first lady makes a comment about the massive venues sh...
McHenry Outdoor Theater ready to resume operations this weekend

By Dave Oberhelman
May 03, 2020 1:00 am - The McHenry Outdoor Theater will reopen for business Friday and Saturday with a host of new regulations in place to maintain social distancing, its owner announced Sunda...
Cast reunions, TV reruns and classic movies bring comfort during pandemic

By Lynn Elber Associated Press
May 02, 2020 11:00 pm - Josh Gad had a notion about what might soothe the kid in him during a scary time and maybe do the same for others. The actor got to work organizing an online reunion of ...
Behind the Curtain: The May journalism movie of the month

May 02, 2020 1:00 am - 'State of Play' The 2009 thriller stars Russell Crowe as a journalist investigating the death of a congressman's mistress. Other cast members include Ben Affleck, Jason ...
Netflix's 'All Day and a Night' delivers raw tale of young man's path to prison

By Jake Coyle Associated Press
May 01, 2020 11:00 am - “All Day and a Night” - ★ ★ Joe Robert Cole's “All Day and a Night” is a tough and anguished drama that somberly spirals around the circular tragedies of crime and incar...

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