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Weekly Movie Guide
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The celebration ended months ago, but the feel-good magic of back-to-back state championships by the Libertyville High School baseball team lingers as the backdrop of a short film its director hopes can translate into a full-length production.
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Of all the magical portals that transport you to another world, “Forgotten Island” may have the cutest. It’s a sand dollar. That humble beach staple is the key to unlocking what surely is the richest, busiest and trippiest animated movie of the year, one that leans into Filipino folklore to tell a story about friendship.
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“Heart of the Beast” is an Alaskan-set story about two combat veterans — one human, one canine — who set out for a postretirement camping trip and find themselves in a perilous situation after the human, retired Special Forces officer James (Brad Pitt), suffers a heart attack while piloting his seaplane.
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In the opening scene of “Primetime,” our protagonist antihero, Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), recites his lines, the transcript of a stomach-churning online chat, in a kind of whispered mantra. To make the argument that the producers behind the reality show “To Catch a Predator” were the predators themselves is too easy.
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“La Bola Negra,” the Spanish queer epic about the intertwined lives of three gay men, won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, confirming its status as a major Oscar contender.
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Zach Cregger’s “Resident Evil” gave the North American box office a shot in the arm in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony Pictures release earned $60 million in ticket sales from 3,684 locations in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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It’s cosmic justice that Darlene Love, whose career in music so often went uncredited in her youth, still sings so well at age 85. The new documentary, “Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been,” is punctuated by Love’s performances of some of her classic songs.
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