Movies
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What to stream: Bruce Springsteen doc, Halsey album, Billy Crystal on TV and the thriller ‘Trap’
Oct 21, 2024 5:30 am - The Boss shining in the documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” and Billy Crystal starring in a new series for Apple TV+ called “Before” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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For his biggest role yet, former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris is once again ‘the Black dude’Oct 18, 2024 10:29 am - It hit him at odd times. Former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris would be walking the set of “Saturday Night,” the frantic new comedy of errors about the inaugural episode of SNL, and shake his head. He often wondered: What am I doing here?
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Lake Park film society to show the iconic psychological thriller ‘The Manchurian Candidate’Oct 17, 2024 7:54 pm - Fans have voted for this year's political themed film! Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society hosts its next screening on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
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Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis play father and daughter in ‘Goodrich’Oct 17, 2024 5:41 pm - Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.”
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It’s the end of the world, and Guy Maddin feels fine in ‘Rumours’
Oct 17, 2024 3:59 pm - “Rumours” is an unexpected development in the career of Canadian filmmaking maverick Guy Maddin: It almost looks like a normal movie. Don’t be fooled. Maddin delivers a disarmingly gonzo absurdist comedy about Western world leaders lost in the woods, figuratively and literally.
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Jane Fonda to receive lifetime achievement award from actors’ guild
Oct 17, 2024 3:38 pm - Actor and humanitarian Jane Fonda is adding the SAG life achievement award to her many accolades. The 86-year-old will be given the prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February, the guild said Thursday.
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Anxiety of the female experience at heart of Anna Kendrick’s chilling ‘Woman of the Hour’
Oct 17, 2024 5:45 am - In Anna Kendrick’s “Woman of the Hour,” a chilling, based-on-a-true-story drama about when a 1970s serial killer appeared on an episode of “The Dating Game,” one of the most telling images isn’t a grisly murder scene. It’s that of a dejected man’s face.
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Grin Reaper: Visceral visuals, sly humor prevent overstuffed ‘Smile 2’ from being frowned uponOct 17, 2024 5:30 am - A great horror movie dwells deep within Parker Finn’s enigmatic “Smile 2.” The film constantly keeps us off-kilter, employing a brutal barrage of mind-bending perspectives that plop us directly inside the embattled brain of a woman under psychic assault by a nebulous evil entity.
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Life flies by in Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield romance ‘We Live In Time’
Oct 17, 2024 5:30 am - It’s not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall in love. In “We Live In Time,” filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience up close and personal with this British couple through the highs and lows of a relationships in their 30s.
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Film chronicling Obama’s rise to make Chicago debutOct 15, 2024 8:43 pm - “Things Are Tough All Over” will make its Chicago debut on Monday, Oct. 28, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. It is set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.