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Weekly Movie Guide
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The McHenry Outdoor Theater, the last remaining suburban drive-in, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. It debuted as the Skyline Drive-In on July 20, 1951, with “Rogues of Sherwood Forest” starring John Derek.
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It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendent of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The story itself is very by the books, but it’s still a fun watch.
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As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it.
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It’s right there in the trailer for "Motor City": “revenge is louder than words.” The tagline is a coy nod at the unique nature of the screenplay of “Motor City,” because there aren’t many words in this down and dirty 1970s-set revenge thriller starring the brawny Alan Ritchson.
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By the end of “Her Private Hell,” Nicolas Winding Refn’s maximalist meditation on death, sex and daddy issues, I had to grin. Maybe it was Pino Donaggio’s swooning score or that our leading lady, Elle (Sophie Thatcher), had finally broken bad.
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After three delightful seasons on Netflix, Alice Oseman’s web comic-turned-book series-turned TV show wrapped up its run with a full-length movie, “Heartstopper Forever,” directed by Wash Westmoreland.
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Charli xcx’s new album, a pickleball movie starring Jake Johnson and the ensemble comedy “72 Hours” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even better debut than “Oppenheimer” and marking the filmmaker’s best opening since 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.”
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