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‘Novocaine’ leads numbingly slow weekend at domestic box office

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 16, 2025 1:34 pm - Five new movies opened wide in theaters this weekend including a starry spy picture from Steven Soderbergh, an A24 thriller, a Looney Tunes movie and a high concept action-comedy with “The Boys” star Jack Quaid. But it’s likely going be the lowest-grossing weekend of the year to date.
McHenry Outdoor Theater to open for season March 21

By Shaw Local News Network
Mar 13, 2025 9:11 pm - A Disney live action adaptation of the classic 1937 film “Snow White” will kick off the McHenry Outdoor Theater’s 2025 season, which opens March 21.
‘Young Guns 3: Dead or Alive’ to film in New Mexico

Mar 13, 2025 2:45 pm - It’s been almost 40 years since Emilio Estevez first drew his revolver as Billy the Kid in the iconic Western “Young Guns.”
Russo brothers’ sci-fi ‘The Electric State’ is big, ambitious and dull

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 13, 2025 2:10 pm - If an algorithm designed a classic, big-screen spectacle for the small-screen age, “The Electric State” probably wouldn’t be too far off the mark. This big-budget Netflix adventure with dystopian, science-fiction wonder, nostalgic callbacks and well-liked stars should work. But it’s actually kind of dull.
‘October 8’ documentary probes the rise in U.S. antisemitism

By Michael O'Sullivan
Mar 13, 2025 1:38 pm - The timely documentary “October 8” looks at the antisemitism that arose last year on college campuses amid student protests over the Israel-Gaza war.
‘Black Bag’ is a spy story with a marital twist

By Ty Burr
Mar 13, 2025 5:30 am - That three-star rating for the new Steven Soderbergh movie “Black Bag” is a matter of personal preference. Kick it up by half a star if your tastes run to John le Carré espionage thrillers crossed with marital cage matches. Dock it the same amount if you don’t like talky, complex, fiendishly intelligent head games.
An unhinged John Malkovich can’t help the cult-horror misfire ‘Opus’

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 13, 2025 5:30 am - In the new horror movie “Opus,” we’re introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the ’90s. If the name Alfred Moretti sounds more like a personal injury attorney from New Jersey, that’s the first sign “Opus” is going to stumble.
Tree of Life hosts screening of documentary ‘Major!’

Submitted by Dave Becker
Mar 11, 2025 11:50 pm - Tree of Life in McHenry is hosting a screening of the documentary, “Major!” about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.
Cute, quick Quaid weaponizes a handicap in ridiculously violent, quirky action comedy ‘Novocaine’

By Dann Gire
Mar 11, 2025 1:31 pm - The cheerfully violent, stunt-stuffed “Novocaine,” starring Jack Quaid as a normal guy who suffers from the inability to feel physical pain, sets its entertainment sights fairly low, then wildly exceeds them for most of its brisk and bloody running time, film critic Dann Gire says.
Lake Park film society to show Christie classic, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

Submitted by Lake Park High’s Film Appreciation Society
Mar 10, 2025 12:22 pm - Lake Park High School’s Film Appreciation Society presents the Agatha Christie classic, “Murder on the Orient Express,“ on Wednesday, March 12.

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