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Friday, June 09, 2023
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Friday, June 09, 2023
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Garde and Goodspeed team up for ‘Summer Stock’ event
The Garde Arts Center and Goodspeed Musicals are joining forces to present a free screening of the classic movie “Summer Stock” and a sneak peek of the stage adaptation i...
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Most of us have had our blood pressure readings erupt in volcanic fashion while waiting in line at the DMV or for a building permit. Kafka and Dickens ca...
After Memorial Day, the floodgates open wide for new movie releases, and wave after wave of film fun crash on our cinematic shores. What's in store for the months ahead? ...
Jonah Hauer-King was in the middle of rehearsals for Disney's "The Little Mermaid" when he heard a voice ring out from another area of the soundstage. When he realized wh...
Nineties nostalgia has extended now to 1992's “White Men Can't Jump” returning to the blacktop courts where Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson hustled and Rosie Perez stud...
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A ‘90s-era phenomenon, Anna Nicole Smith became famous for emulating Marilyn Monroe’s blond bombshell appearance, first on the pages of Playboy and later as a model for G...
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
You know how a movie adaptation is never as good as the book? Well, “Margaret” breaks that rule. This is a wonderful take o...
The most interesting part of “ The Mother,” a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored. The movie is a high-co...
McFly: The surname of the time-traveler Michael J. Fox played in “Back to the Future” suits that character, by design. It also captures the propulsive stardom and perpetu...
Detroit — Bruce Campbell is a local legend, a horror movie icon and a first-rate ham.
The Royal Oak-born actor, 64, has been a B-movie staple in Hollywood since starring ...
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Promising premise? Check.
A couple of bona fide movie stars? Check.
Dependable director? Check.
"Ghosted" — a Skydance Media production going straight to Apple TV+ this w...
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Dark Angel
John Sandford
Let’s see ... Sandford is 79 and cranks out about three excellent crime novels on an annual basis. My fervent wish is that he continue t...
The cast for the movie adaptation of the iconic Judy Blume coming-of-age novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” features Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates … and Kate Mac...
LOS ANGELES — Catherine Hardwicke's new movie, "Mafia Mamma," is a comedic fantasy about a smart, talented, too-long underestimated American woman, played by Toni Collett...
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Six
Providence Performing Arts Center, April 11-23
Alexander Hamilton got his updated hip-hop musical, so why shouldn’t Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives get a pop-s...
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City of Dreams
Don Winslow
Two down, one to go. When the outstanding literary crime novelist Don Winslow announced he was retiring in 2020 to spend his energies ...
You would have a hard time defending the limp plotting, the bland action-adventure set pieces or the Agatha Christie-light whodunit twists of the first “Murder Mystery.” ...
For a movie about a video game — especially one as popular and as elegant in its simplicity as “Tetris” — Apple TV Plus’s new docudrama by that name certainly involves a ...
In the new film “Inside,” Willem Dafoe goes it alone as an art thief who breaks into a billionaire’s luxury penthouse with only seven minutes to get in, snatch a few mult...
The new movie "Flamin' Hot," which premiered over the weekend in Austin, Texas, tells the story of Richard Montañez, who rose from janitor to executive at Frito-Lay and h...
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