Movies
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Incarcerated fathers and their daughters dance in the heart-wrenching doc ‘Daughters’
Aug 14, 2024 6:53 am - A group of incarcerated fathers are warned in the documentary “Daughters,” now streaming on Netflix, that they’re about to go on “emotional rollercoasters.” A truer prediction has never been uttered.
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Film, TV stars converge in Rosemont for Fan Expo ChicagoAug 14, 2024 6:00 am - “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” veterans, Oscar winners, TV favorites and more will be on hand for the Fan Expo Chicago taking place this weekend in Rosemont.
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Incarcerated fathers and daughters reunite at dance in Netflix documentary
Aug 13, 2024 2:32 pm - Two filmmakers began an eight-year journey to make the documentary “Daughters,” which follows four young girls as they prepare to reunite with their fathers for a dance in a Washington, D.C., jail. The Sundance-prize winning film begins streaming on Netflix Wednesday, Aug. 14.
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What to stream: Sydney Sweeney plays a nun, Post Malone goes country and Madden 25 hits the field
Aug 12, 2024 5:45 am - The Sydney Sweeney nun thriller “Immaculate” making its Hulu debut and a country album from Post Malone are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘The girls didn’t stop screaming’: When Beatlemania hit suburban theaters 60 years agoAug 11, 2024 9:00 pm - With George Harrison’s opening guitar chord, hysteria enveloped American movie theaters 60 years ago Monday. The premiere of “A Hard Day’s Night” at 500 theaters nationwide only served to build the anticipation of the film’s release weeks later in the Chicago area.
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Disney thrills fans at D23 with ‘Incredibles 3’ announcement, footage from ‘Moana 2’
Aug 11, 2024 6:47 pm - ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disney teased its upcoming movies and television series including “Moana 2” in a rousing showcase featuring sneak peaks, live performances and surprise ...
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Who won at the box office this weekend? The Reynolds-Lively household
Aug 11, 2024 6:24 pm - In the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively box-office showdown, both husband and wife came out winners.
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Pick your poison: There’s a horror film for everyone in 2024
Aug 11, 2024 6:00 am - For every kind of horror movie, there is a kind of horror fan. Whether you love the most extreme and gory flicks the genre has to offer or you faint at the sight of blood, somewhere out there is a movie for you.
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Movie Review: ‘Cuckoo’ is a stylish nightmare
Aug 08, 2024 10:08 am - There are strange things happening at an Alpine resort run by a bespectacled German hotelier named Herr König, played with an off-kilter menace by Dan Stevens in the film “Cuckoo.”
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Movie Review: ‘Good One’ is one of the year’s indie breakouts
Aug 08, 2024 8:43 am - A 17-year-old’s perception of her father is forever altered on a three-day backpacking trip in India Donaldson’s excellent debut “ Good One," in theaters Friday.