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What’s New NOW On June 30 “Madam Secretary” Season 5 of this CBS political drama finds U.S. Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) and President Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine) confronting an unexpected enemy — homegrown violent nationalists. Tim Daly, Patina Miller and Geoffrey Arend are also in the cast.

“Jo Koy: Comin’ in Hot” Hula dancing and a whole lot of self-deprecating humor are the order of the evening as the comedian gives his take on how to raise a millennial, the intricacies of Filipino traditions and more in this stand-up special filmed last November at Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu. (ORIGINAL) “Movie: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, a Brooklyn teen develops mysterious powers that he soon discovers he shares with others and they must use them to battle an evil madman who can open portals to other universes in this 2018 animated action movie that won an Oscar for best animated feature film this spring.

July 4 “Stranger Things” The calendar advances to 1985 and romance blossoms for members of the Hawkins crew, who must reconcile the new relationships with the old and figure out how to grow up without growing apart, as the wildly popular fantasy series comes back for its third season. Cary Elwes (“The Princess Bride”) and Maya Hawke (“Little Women”) join a cast that features returnees Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard and Joe Keery.

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“Orange Is the New Black” (July 26) The seventh and final season of this critically acclaimed prison comedy finds the ladies of Litchfield coming to terms with the fact that prison has changed them forever. Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks and Selenis Leyva are among cast returnees. (ORIGINAL) “Magic: The Gathering” (date TBA) Joe and Anthony Russo (“Avengers: Infinity War”) are the creative forces behind this animated series based on the videogame that expands on the story of the Planeswalkers.

(ORIGINAL) “Douglas” (date TBA) Hannah Gadsby performs before a live audience in this stand-up comedy special from her current “Douglas” tour, which was named after her beloved dog, that’s slated for next year. (ORIGINAL) “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings” (date TBA) Parton is executive producer and one of the stars of this anthology series that spotlights the stories, memories and inspirations behind her most popular songs. Ginnifer Goodwin, Delta Burke and Julianne Hough are among the players. (ORIGINAL)

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What’s New NOW On July 4 “Movie: Culture Shock” A young Mexican woman finds her pursuit of the American dream turning into a nightmare after crossing the border illegally in this Independence Day-themed “Into the Dark” installment. Martha Higareda, Richard Cabral, Shawn Ashmore and Creed Bratton head the cast for writer/director Gigi Saul Guerrero (“La Quinceanera”). (ORIGINAL) Premiere “Movie: One Crazy Cruise” A blended family’s tropical vacation takes an unexpected detour when they are shipwrecked in this 2015 family comedy from director Michael Grossman (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”). Kira Kosarin, Benjamin Flores Jr., Sydney Park and Rio Mangini star.

“Movie: True Grit” More a reimagining of the Charles Portis novel than a remake of the Oscar-winning John Wayne movie, Joel and Ethan Coen’s take on the Western classic boasts fellow “Big Lebowski” alum Jeff Bridges’ effective performance as Rooster Cogburn, the grizzled lawman enlisted by a spunky youngster (impressive newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) to find her father’s killer. Matt Damon is solid as a Texas Ranger involved in the hunt; Josh Brolin also co-stars.

“Movie: Jackass 3D” Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest of his gang unleash another foray of crude and crazy stunts, from crashing through various objects to standing in the path of a charging bull, in this third installment of the action/comedy documentary series from filmmaker Jeff Tremaine.

“The Amazing Johnathan Documentary” (Aug. 16) What starts out as the story of the eccentric magician who once did a long residency in Las Vegas morphs into a bizarre account of the unravelling of his documentarian. (ORIGINAL) “Normal People” (date TBA) This 12-episode drama series follows the tender relationship of two smalltown Irish youths from childhood through college in Dublin. Daisy EdgarJones and Paul Mescal star.

(ORIGINAL) “Nine Perfect Strangers” (date TBA) Nicole Kidman and David E. Kelley are among the creative forces behind this drama series about a boutique health-andwellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get their lives on a path of healing. Kidman also stars.

(ORIGINAL) “The Dropout” (date TBA) “Saturday Night Live” player Kate McKinnon is executive producer and star of this limited series about the rise and fall of CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her company, medical device manufacturer Theranos. (ORIGINAL)

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“Wiseguy” This sharp 1987-90 CBS undercover crime drama featured season-long story arcs and an ever-changing cast that had Ken Wahl, Jonathan Banks, Jim Byrnes, Anthony Denison and Steven Bauer at its core, with an impressive list of guest stars including Jerry Lewis, Ron Silver, Ray Sharkey, Glenn Frey and Kevin Spacey.

“Movie: Dragon Blade” An exiled Chinese general offers shelter to a renegade Roman and his legion, then becomes involved in the soldier’s dispute with Rome’s villainous consul in this 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong action film. Like with most Jackie Chan films, fans can expect to see some exciting action scenes. The cast also includes John Cusack and Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody.

“The Clean Guys of Comedy” Filmed in 2013 at Denver’s Buell Theatre, this stand-up special features adult humor without the potty mouth from the likes of Dave Coulier (“Full House”), Jamie Kennedy (“Ghost Whisperer”), Heather McDonald (“Chelsea Lately”), Ralph Louis Harris (“On Our Own”) and Andy Hendrickson.

“Movie: Endless Love” Also the source of a 1981 Brooke Shields movie that yielded a classic title song (no trace of which is found here), Scott Spencer’s novel is the basis of this 2014 update starring Alex Pettyfer as a young man whose involvement with a former classmate (Gabriella Wilde) leads her to change her plans for her future. That makes her father (Bruce Greenwood) determined to break them up, with unforeseen results. Joely Richardson and Robert Patrick also star.

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“Carnival Row” (Aug. 30) Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne star in this fantasy series about mythological creatures and their struggle to co-exist with humans.

(ORIGINAL) “Good People” (date TBA) From executive producers Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings comes this comedy pilot about three generations of women who struggle with the current cultural climate while working at a college ombudsman office. (ORIGINAL) “The Lord of the Rings” (date TBA) New storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” will be explored with “Game of Thrones” writer/producer Bryan Cogman signed on to join the writing team of JD Payne and Patrick McKay. (ORIGINAL) “Bandish Bandits” (date TBA) This romantic musical series from India follows the love story of two musicians of differing abilities and interests and from starkly contrasting backgrounds. (ORIGINAL)

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING Repeats every month on the third Tuesday until Wed Dec 21 2022.

Regular City Council Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 1:00pm and 5:30pm, respectively.* Meetings take place in Council Chambers located on the 4th Floor of the Sumter Opera House at 21 North Main Street, Sumter, SC 29150. *Meetings are subject to rescheduling. Please check our calendar monthly for the most up-to-date Council schedule.

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING Repeats every month on the first Tuesday until Sat Dec 31 2022.

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“The Loudest Voice” premieres Sunday on Showtime.

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WEEK OF JUNE 30 TO JULY 6, 2019 THE LUCKIEST SIGNS THIS WEEK: VIRGO, LIBRA AND SCORPIO

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You’ll feel the need to improve your home’s security. Getting an alarm system, new locks and other state of the art equipment will grant you some peace of mind.

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Your impulsive nature is hard to manage at times. You’ll climb the corporate ladder very fast, but when you get to the top, you may find that your new responsibilities hold you back.

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Watch your home and family budget for the year. The summer holidays are coming, and you want everything to be perfect so you can relax without any worries. You’ll take up a new athletic activity this month.

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How Roger Ailes changed cable news and American politics in Showtime’s

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Roger Ailes saw Fox News’ mission as providing “a positive message, an American message, wrapped up in a conservative viewpoint.” As history tells us, he and the cablenet did a whole lot more.

The story of how Ailes molded Fox News into a media powerhouse and in the process changed the political conversation in this country is told in the Showtime limited series “The Loudest Voice,” premiering Sunday, June 30. Under heavy makeup and prosthetics, muscular actor Russell Crowe (“Cinderella Man,” “Gladiator”) fairly disappears into the skin of the rotund Ailes, who died in 2017 after being forced to resign from the network amid sexual harassment allegations, while Sienna Miller (“Factory Girl”) is also unrecognizable as Ailes’ wife Beth.

The series follows Ailes’ stewardship of Fox News after being hired in 1996 by News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch (Simon McBurney, “The Theory of Everything”), creating a corporate culture marked by intimidation, paranoia and an us-versus-theoutside-world attitude. Among those under his command are his PR guy Brian Lewis (Seth MacFarlane, “The Orville”), who did Ailes’ dirty work; his assistant Judy Laterza (Aleksa Palladino, “Boardwalk Empire”) and his booker Laurie Luhn (Annabelle Wallis, “Peaky Blinders”), one of his lovers.

Crowe portrays Ailes as a brilliant megalomaniac who abused employees, sexually harassed women and had no tolerance for anything left-leaning or politically correct. Conversely, this family man from humble beginnings in the Rust Belt of Ohio wanted to make America great again and he would use his pulpit at Fox News to do it by any means necessary.

“Roger was like many in his era,” explains director Kari Skogland, “very entitled and empowered to abuse situations and to abuse his

power. And he obviously took it into political arenas and abused his ability to sway the public. But having said that, I think he was the first to identify the true power of television in politics, and I think we’re only just grappling with the truth of that now.”

Under Ailes’ direction, according to the series, Fox News gave its audience what it wanted, advancing conspiracy theories, phrasing accusations against political enemies as questions and even coordinating with the Bush White House to make its case for the Iraq War. It all made for big ratings but Ailes’ right wing fervor sometimes drew Murdoch’s ire when it clashed with his business pragmatism.

Gabe Sherman, on whose book “The Loudest Voice in the Room” the series is based, describes the relationship between the two men as “complicated.” “(Murdoch) was trying to forge alliances with Democrats,” he explains, “because in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected, it really looked like the country was shifting and Murdoch wanted to be on the right side of that shift. And so him and Ailes got crossways over the election of Obama.

“And so it’s a very competitive relationship also,” he continues.

“Ailes really saw himself as the creator of Fox News and the visionary that gave life to the channel, and Murdoch, being the billionaire media mogul, also sees himself as the author of Fox News. So in many ways, these two larger-than-life figures were very competitive with each other even though they worked together. So it definitely is the stuff that makes for great television, to see these two characters kind of go at it.”

Whether or not you’re on vacation, when you’re at home, you can relax and let your mind wander. A good movie lets you escape from reality once in a while.

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There won’t be a lack of conversation this week. However, you might find it difficult to control the topics, and you may find yourself sharing secrets you would have preferred to keep to yourself.

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While on vacation, at a conference or at the grocery store, you’ll meet somebody captivating. This person will introduce you to memorable experiences and allow you to release intense emotions.

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You’ll need more than a simple “I love you” from your partner this week. Luckily, they have a romantic surprise in store for you.

CAPRICORN

Now that summer vacation has arrived, there’s nothing keeping you cooped up at home.

Opt for a change of scenery with an exotic adventure or fun road trip with friends.

AQUARIUS

Housework and money are often a source of stress that add to the tension in your relationship.

Renew harmony and calm your anxieties by finding new topics of conversation.

PISCES

Housework is a chore that you’ve been putting off and you may have to do it all at the last minute. At work, your genius ideas will be well received, as long as you know how to communicate them well.

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The existence of the letter, which was first reported and posted by The New York Times on Saturday, was a bold assertion of presidential power and another front on which Trump's lawyers have argued that the president can't be subpoenaed in the special counsel's ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

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BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com Four National Bank of South Carolina branch locations in Sumter and one each in Manning and Bishopville will soon get a facelift as the bank transitions its signage and other legal branding to its parent company’s name.

Since January, Synovus has implemented a staggered brand transition across five states of all of its non-Synovus bank divisions, company spokesman Lee Underwood said Friday.

With 38 branches in South Carolina, NBSC will complete that brand transition of signage, business cards, pens and other legal branding this month. The signage transition in Sumter County is scheduled for the middle of the month,

Underwood said.

NBSC was actually founded in Sumter in 1905. Synovus acquired NBSC in 1995.

Currently, NBSC has 340 employees.

Having one brand name will help with marketing and customer recognition across the Southeast, according to Underwood.

NBSC Sumter Market President Melissa White said she was proud of the reputation that NBSC has built in conjunction with Synovus and is looking forward to the future.

“Adopting the Synovus name while maintaining our local, relationship-centered delivery model will increase awareness of our regional presence, our financial capabilities and our ability to meet the needs of customers and prospects,” White said.

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Bryce Dallas Howard’s Top 10 Movies ‘Rocketman’ recaps Elton John’s life

BY JAY BOBBIN “Pete’s Dragon” (2016): As a helpful forest ranger, Howard introduces young Pete (Oakes Fegley) to – you guessed it! – a dragon in this Disney-studio revision of one of its own classics.

“Jurassic World” (2015): Ron Howard’s daughter succeeded in bringing a brave new heroine to the franchise whose biggest stars, figuratively and literally, are cloned dinosaurs.

“50/50” (2011): She ultimately may not be the most sympathetic figure in the film, but Howard does fine work as a cancer patient’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) girlfriend.

“The Help” (2011): Again playing not the most likable figure in the piece, Howard does what’s needed as a Southern socialite who would prefer not to be swept up in social change.

“Hereafter” (2010): Howard has affecting moments in director Clint Eastwood’s drama as a woman who learns a bit too much from a psychically gifted man (Matt Damon).

“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” (2010): Very physical work plays heavily into Howard’s portrayal of Victoria in this chapter of the wildly popular horror-drama franchise.

“Terminator Salvation” (2009): Howard sees action as the wife of Resistance fighter John Connor (Christian Bale) in this spinoff of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie series.

“Spider-Man 3” (2007): Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) gets competition for Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) heart in Howard’s Gwen Stacy.

“Lady in the Water” (2006): In writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s ambitious fantasy, Howard is said “lady,” a threatened figure protected by a building superintendent (Paul Giamatti).

“Manderlay” (2005): Howard made an early impact as a Southerner who engineers her own social experiment at a plantation in filmmaker Lars von Trier’s drama.

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It’s been a big time for music-star movie biographies lately, and that’s really thanks to one filmmaker.

Dexter Fletcher was brought in to finish the Oscar-winning “Bohemian Rhapsody” after the original director was fired. He’s also the driving force behind “Rocketman,” the story of Elton John ... who has gone through many variations in his work, from being one of the flashiest stars to take the stage, to settling into an easy-listening mode that even saw – and heard – him furnish a Disneymovie staple (“Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from “The Lion King”).

Fletcher demonstrates that he’s more than up to tackling such a job from the start, drawing an excellent performance from “Kingsman”-franchise star Taron Egerton as the singer-songwriter behind countless hits that have stretched from the 1970s forward.

Taron Egerton

Flashbacks triggered by a group-therapy session cover John’s early life, with Bryce Dallas Howard as his rather undemonstrative mother and Jamie Bell (whose “Billy Elliot” also was devised by this picture’s writer, Lee Hall) as his longtime creative partner Bernie Taupin. Stage and screen veteran Gemma Jones earns high marks as the grandmother whose devotion helped John through his younger years.

Elton John himself is one of the executive producers here, so he had a direct say in what is or isn’t included. Given that, he deserves credit for allowing the amount and depth of personal information, with Richard Madden playing a manager who became a key figure in that. It’s quite possible that some of John’s fans don’t know his whole story, and while “Bohemian Rhapsody” received some criticism for stopping short of full details on Freddie Mercury’s background, that’s not likely to happen in this case.

And then there are the performance sequences in “Rocketman,” expectedly energetic, and also quite impressive from the standpoint of Egerton himself doing the singing. That’s the thing about an acting job like this: It’s more than the acting since the performer in question also has to look and sound thoroughly convincing musically, and Egerton deserves the same sort of kudos that eventually led Rami Malek to his “Bohemian Rhapsody” Oscar.

Logically, many of John’s music hits are included, from “Your Song” to “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” If there’s one area in which viewers might feel shortchanged, though, it’s in its omission of much focus on John’s current life as the husband of David Furnish and father of two children.

That’s covered by the film only briefly, but overall, “Rocketman” does a fine job of showing how its subject is still standing.

“THE BEST OF ENEMIES” Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”) and Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) make a strong acting match in debuting director and screenwriter Robin Bissell’s fact-inspired drama that lives up to its title, taken from the Osha Gray Davidson book the film is based on. The stars play civilrights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis, who opposed each other for a decade before becoming tenuous partners presiding over a meeting on school desegregation in North Carolina. The two-week session ultimately had a profound effect on both of them and the views they long had held. The excellent cast also includes Wes Bentley, Anne Heche, Babou Cessay, Bruce McGill, John Gallagher Jr. (“The Newsroom”) and Nick Searcy. Tobey Maguire was among the movie’s producers. ››› (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)

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Movie Schedule

“ESCAPE PLAN: THE EXTRACTORS” Week of June 30

MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL PG-13, 1 hr 55 min Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

SHAFT (2019) R, 1 hr 51 min Action/Adventure

DARK PHOENIX PG-13, 1 hr 54 min Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 PG, 1 hr 26 min Animated, Comedy

GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) PG-13, 2 hr 12 min Action/Adventure

MA (2019) R, 1 hr 39 min Horror, Suspense/Thriller

ROCKETMAN R, 2 hr 1 min Drama, Music/Performing Arts

ALADDIN (2019) PG, 2 hr 8 min Action/Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM R, 2 hr 11 min Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller

AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)

Following “Rocky,” “Rambo” and “The Expendables,” Sylvester Stallone has managed to build another franchise out of his adventures about an expert in breaking in and out of prisons. Here, his character Ray Breslin has a personal investment in the mission, since his girlfriend (Jaime King) is being detained in a veritable fortress in Latvia ... and take a wild guess at who the only person who can extract her is. The daughter of a tech-world kingpin also is being held; Dave Bautista (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson play Breslin’s cohorts in trying to extract them. Devon Sawa (“Final Destination”) also is in director and co-writer John Herzfeld’s (“Reach Me”) cast. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by Stallone, Sawa, Herzfeld and co-star Daniel Bernhardt. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE PUBLIC” Emilio Estevez handles many of the major jobs on this intense drama, serving as writer and director as well as a producer and star of this tale of a crisis that evolves into a bigger one when a group of homeless people refuses to leave the Cincinnati Public Library during a severe cold snap. The presence of riot police – with Alec Baldwin playing a negotiator – prompts the escalation of the situation from a nonviolent matter to something potentially more tragic, something that two librarians caught in the middle (Estevez, Jena Malone) hope to avoid. Christian Slater, Taylor Schilling (“Orange Is the New Black”), Gabrielle Union, Richard T. Jones and “Boardwalk Empire” alums Jeffrey Wright and Michael Kenneth Williams also star. ››› (PG-13: AS, N, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “AN ACCEPTABLE LOSS” A veteran of American politics, played by Tika Sumpter (“Ride Along”), finds herself with multiple concerns in writer-director Joe Chappelle’s (“The Wire”) well-acted drama. Though the lead character isn’t specifically meant to be Condoleezza Rice, it wouldn’t be too hard to make the leap that she was an inspiration here, since the woman in the tale is a college professor and former national security adviser. Figures from her past – especially the current U.S. president, played by an excellent Jamie Lee Curtis – give her present-day worries, as does a particularly curious graduate student (Ben Tavassoli).

Jeff Hephner, Clarke Peters, Rex Linn (“CSI: Miami”) and David Eigenberg (of “Chicago Fire,” which Chappelle often directs) also appear. ››› (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE” Based on a novel by Shirley Jackson, whose “The Haunting of Hill House:” has yielded multiple screen versions, this moody thriller casts Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) as a young woman whose fear of others in her village – who are wary of her troubled family history – has led her to place allegedly magical objects around her home to ward off evil. A cousin’s (Sebastian Stan) visit coincides with the disappearance of those items, also impacting the teenage girl’s sister (Alexandra Daddario), who has been a virtual recluse since being acquitted of their parents’ deaths. Expectedly, things only get more dangerous from that point. Filmed in Ireland, the melodrama also features Crispin Glover and Paula Malcomson (“Deadwood,” “Ray Donovan”). ››› (Not rated: AS, P, V) “A SUMMER TO REMEMBER” Seen recently in a reprise of her “JAG” role as “Mac” MacKenzie on “NCIS: Los Angeles,” Catherine Bell has been spending a lot of time on Hallmark Channel lately ... in her “Good Witch” series, and also in movies such as this one. Here, she plays a widowed doctor who takes a professional break by visiting Fiji with her daughter (Samantha MacGillivray). The owner of the resort where they stay happens to be an appealing hunk – gee, what are the odds? – played by Cameron Mathison, also a Hallmark fixture through moves and his co-hosting of the weekday show “Home & Family.” Their blossoming relationship make the medic have doubts about the major hospital promotion she’s up for back home. ››› (Not rated: AS)

PG-13, 3 hr 1 min Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

ANNA (2019) R, 1 hr 58 min Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller

“PET SEMATARY” (July 9)

CHILD’S PLAY (2019)

“GOTHAM: THE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON” (July 9)

R, 2 hr, Horror

“LITTLE” (July 9) “BREAKTHROUGH” (July 16)

ANNABELLE COMES HOME R, 1 hr 46 min Horror

“SHAZAM!” (July 16)

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“ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL” (July 23)

“Pet Sematary”

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Former Crestwood High School standout basketball player Ja Morant was selected second overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2019 NBA draft on Thursday, and nearly 100 of his closest friends and family members were on hand at Club Trends in Sumter to show their support.

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