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jfisher@timesrepublican.com T-R PHOTOS BY JOE FISHER — Plaza 9 employee Alexander Pruitt wipes down the concession counter to help mitigate COVID-19 spread. The theater employees also wipe down seats between showings and spray the entire auditoriums with disinfectant at the end of the day. Big budget releases were moved and the only disaster movie to create a buzz this year was real life but the show must go on for Plaza 9 Theatres. The Fridley Theatres location, 2500 S. Center Street, will h...

The mall is the setting for an early heist scene, where Wonder Woman – whose day job is now at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in nearby Washington, D.C. – swings up and around three levels to take down a crew of jewelry-store robbers (whose plunder is no ordinary gem) and save a little girl. “It’s just such a perfect location,” director Patty Jenkins says of Landmark, built in 1965 and operational until 2017. “And the fact that it was empty and we wouldnt be nego...

Print Everyone’s favorite humanity-saving, golden lasso-wielding, Amazonian warrior goddess is back — as are Chris Pine and the ’80s — in Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman 1984.” Ranging from lukewarm to glowing, reviews are in for the highly anticipated sequel starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins, who also helmed 2017’s groundbreaking superheroine blockbuster. After multiple delays prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the DC action flick is finally set to debut in select t...

At the end of a year with a dearth of the usual movie superheroes, Wonder Woman flies in with her Lasso of Truth just in time. “Wonder Woman 1984” (★★★ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters and streaming on HBO Max Dec. 25) is director/co-writer Patty Jenkins’ much lighter, somewhat campy follow up to her World War I-set 2017 hit film, though a lot has to do with the new retro time frame. While not quite up to par with its predecessor, the Reagan-era sequel returns Gal Gadot as the ...

Game Night filmmakers, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who also wrote the screenplay (based on a draft by Michael Gilion). Right now, theres no word on what character Pine is playing, but we expect he is just the first of many A-list additions to the movies cast. "We never wanted to spoof the genre of fantasy or take the piss out of it," Daley said over the spring. "But we did want to find another way into it that we hadnt necessarily seen before. Just the format of  Dungeons &...

The first episode of a “Euphoria” two-part special titled, “Rue” began streaming on HBO Max Dec. 4. The “special episodes” are not to be mistaken as the beginning of the second season; they are merely here to update us on the main character, Rue, as we move closer to the release of the actual second season.  Since the show’s debut last year, Zendaya became the youngest person to win an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series in her role as Rue. As we saw in the ...