Allison Benedikt

Navy Pier: What it is: A five-block-long entertainment zone, and the city's top tourist destination. What we found: It was a beautiful day to spend a few hours at Navy...

The long-awaited sequel "The Matrix Reloaded" opened this week, and the Friday staff was eager to explore its many dimensions. (Stop action. New paragraph. Read on.) 1. SCIENCE FICTION "Reloaded"...

Here's a joke: What do you get when a Chicago lawyer, a Miami cocktail waitress and a Manhattan socialite -- all Latinas -- pretend to be a beauty queen, her...

When three Latino women find out they've been dating the same man, they predictably team up to teach the Lothario a lesson and end up becoming friends. It's a thin...

Jeff Daniels plays Fred Barlow, a down-on-his-luck door-to-door vacuum salesman in a losing battle with archrival Winslow Schnaebelt (Harve Presnell). Things finally start looking up when Barlow comes home to...

On Guard (star)(star) Phillipe de Broca's "On Guard" is the story of Legardere (Daniel Auteuil), a man of no stature in late 17th Century France who goes on a great...

Cheap is such an ugly word, we prefer to say value-priced. In this grand, gritty world of entertainment, everybody wants value. It's easy enough to pony up for the most...