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"Movie: Rosaline" This feature-length comedic take on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet stars Kaitlyn Dever ("Dopesick") as Rosaline, the jilted ex of Romeo (Kyle Allen, "West Side Story") who launches an effort to get him back when she sees him pursuing Juliet (Isabela Merced, "Instant Family"). Minnie Driver, Bradley Whitford and Sean Teale also star for director Karen Maine ("Yes, God, Yes"). (ORIGINAL) "Movie: Downton Abbey: A New Era" The cast of the landmark series reunites for this feature-length drama that follows them as they venture to the South of France to uncover the mystery behind the Dowager Countess' recently inherited villa. Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Joanne Froggatt and Elizabeth McGovern star for director Simon Curtis ("My Week With Marilyn," "The Art of Racing in the Rain"). (ORIGINAL) "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" The Academy Award-winning "The Shape of Water" filmmaker is the creative force behind this eight episode anthology series that endeavors to challenge traditional notions of horror with tales with themes ranging from macabre and magical to gothic, grotesque and classically creepy. Geena Davis, Nia Vardalos, F. Murray Abraham and Andrew Lincoln are among those appearing. (ORIGINAL) "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" (Oct. 26) From Lucasfilm Animation comes this series of shorts that delves into the background and origin of Anakin Skywalker's apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, as well as the story of Count Dooku as he drifts away from the path of the Jedi and eventually succumbs to the dark side of the Force. (ORIGINAL) The STREAM Scene Where all the top choices can be found in one place! 10 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • October 23 - 29, 2022 BEST BASEBALL MOVIES "Field of Dreams" (1989) While not the most historically accurate of baseball films – c'mon, Shoeless Joe Jackson batted left-handed and threw righty, not the other way around as Ray Liotta portrayed him – this tale of an Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) who built a baseball diamond in his cornfield at the urging of a disembodied voice never fails to bring a lump to the throat with the closing scene of Costner's character playing catch with his long-estranged (and deceased) father. "A League of Their Own" (1992) The little-known story of the World War II-era All- American Girls Professional Baseball League gets light-hearted but respectful treatment in Penny Marshall's superb comedy/drama. Outstanding performances come from all around, from Tom Hanks as a besotted, washed-up star player turned manager to Madonna as the libidinous center fielder and Geena Davis as her team's star catcher and the film's central character. And the closing scenes at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y. – set against the strains of Madonna's "This Used to Be My Playground" – give the film an added poignancy. "61*" (2001) Director Billy Crystal is a lifelong New York Yankees fan and that certainly showed in this seriocomic historical drama about Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris' race to break Babe Ruth's home run record in 1961. In addition to the attention to detail paid to Yankee minutiae (Yogi Berra's malapropisms, Phil Rizzuto's tendency to ramble), the film also features the downright spooky resemblances of Thomas Jane and Barry Pepper to Mantle and Maris. And a few jabs at the opportunistic New York sportswriters of the day didn't hurt either. "42" (2013) Dashing Indiana Jones as rumpled Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey? Well, the artist known as Harrison Ford manages to pull it off in style in this outstanding drama about the challenges faced by Jackie Robinson (played deftly by the late Chadwick Boseman) in breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. As the majors' first African-American player, Robinson had to be strong enough not to fight back against the slings and arrows of racism, a struggle Boseman portrayed superbly – especially in one wrenching scene where an opposing manager repeatedly taunts Robinson with an inflammatory epithet. "Field of Dreams" BY GEORGE DICKIE