Movies
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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.
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Movie Review: ‘It Ends With Us’ tackles big issues, but is melodramatic
Aug 07, 2024 6:40 pm - “It Ends With Us,” starring Blake Lively, tries to balance the realities of domestic violence inside a rom-com and a female-empowerment movie. All suffer in the process.
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Movie review: In ‘The Instigators,’ a heist goes terrifically wrong
Aug 07, 2024 9:38 am - Though depression lurks around the edges of “The Instigators,” Doug Liman’s heist movie is a loosely amiable return to South Boston for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film.
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Book Review: ‘The Future Was Now’ a brilliant look back at the groundbreaking movie summer of '82
Aug 06, 2024 12:22 pm - The moments are seared into the pop culture pantheon. And our collective consciousness. A friendly alien taking Henry Thomas’ character Elliott on an airborne bike ride ...
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What to stream this week: Matt Damon on a heist, ‘Dance Moms’ jazz it up and J Balvin parties
Aug 05, 2024 6:34 am - Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its final season and a Boston heist movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are some of the new television, films, music an...
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Meet Eddie Munster at the drive-in: Actor Butch Patrick to appear at McHenry Outdoor Theatre
Aug 03, 2024 2:29 pm - Actor Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on “The Munsters,” is testing the waters for a planned collaboration with outdoor theaters nationwide. He’ll appear at the McHenry Outdoor Theatre on Aug. 14.
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Britney Spears biopic will be made by Universal with Jon M. Chu as director
Aug 02, 2024 10:21 am - NEW YORK — Universal Pictures has landed the rights to Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” and will develop a biopic of the pop star to be directed by Jon M. Chu, th...
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Josh Hartnett goes big as a serial killer in 'Trap'
Aug 02, 2024 10:20 am - In our spoiler phobic culture, movie trailers don't often offer a lot of information. So it seemed like a particularly bold and even confusing move for " Trap," the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan, to reveal so much so soon.