The village board will discuss the matter at its meeting Wednesday.
"We've got a lot of work to do within the next 72 hours," Phoenix Theaters CEO Phil Zacheretti said. "We should be ready by Friday."
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is an empty man.
Like so many things in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected the film industry. The temporary shuttering of theaters across the country, the release of multimillion-dollar movies being delayed and the studios trying their hand at showing some of their first-run wares via at-home vi…
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Here, poet Yusef Komunyakaa, who teaches at New York University, shows us a fine portrait of the hard life of a worker — in this case, a horse — and, through metaphor, the terrible, clumsy beauty of his final moments.
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Sometimes, the sheer force of a single performance can elevate a film, turning a run-of-the-mill project into something truly special.
Its doors closed due to pandemic restrictions, Danville’s historic Fischer Theatre still is providing community entertainment while raising money to pay bills.
Thankfully, the final 90 minutes of Kornel Mundruczo’s “Pieces of a Woman” isn’t nearly as harrowing as the first 30.
“Let the Sunshine In” resounded as the anthem from the musical “Hair” when it debuted on Broadway in 1968.
In November 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald perished under the waves of Lake Superior, and Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad to its crew captured the nation’s lost hope with the words, “… all that remains are the faces and names … Superior, they say, never gives up her dead, when the gales of …
In Betty Culley’s novel in verse, “Three Things I Know Are True” (HarperTeen 2020), teenage Liv will not give up on her older brother, Jonah, who accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun belonging to his best friend’s father.
Any book with Scrabble at its heart is bound to be a favorite with me, but I loved “You Go First,” by Erin Entrada Kelly, for many other reasons as well.
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It would be easy to mistake Phyllida Lloyd’s “Herself” as the latest work from Ken Loach.
“Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey,” by Kathleen Rooney.
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Bloated and dull, Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman 1984” doesn’t collapse under the weight of expectations, rather it fails to come within a country mile of meeting them.
Of all the videos that played in 2020 at news-gazette.com, the aerial tour of the University of Illinois was multimedia editor Anthony Zilis’ favorite.
If you’re expecting high adventure from George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky,” you’re likely to be disappointed.
“Arrowood and the Thames Corpses,” by Mick Finlay.
There are certain books we can read over and over again, our go-to titles, the ones that inspire read-alike lists.
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Joe Gardner has always had modest ambitions. Passionate about music, his primary goal has been to play in a band, not so much for fame and fortune, but just to do what he loves. As long as he could make enough to survive, he’d be happy.
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