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‘The Sandlot’ hits 25: Director David Mickey Evans talks about the cult film’s effect

December 14, 2018 at 9:42 a.m.

Amazingly, it’s been 25 years since the deeply nostalgic, 1962-set coming-of-age comedy “The Sandlot,” with its memorable band of baseball-centric tween boys and a fearsome English mastiff, first hit theater...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Churchill’ review: Brian Cox’s towering performance in ‘Churchill’ is worthy of the great man himself

June 4, 2018 at 3:43 p.m.

Brian Cox, in a towering, Oscar-caliber performance, proves the literal beating heart of "Churchill," a superb look at iconic statesman Winston Churchill's torturous days leading up to the pivotal D-Day...

‘In Search of Israeli Cuisine’ review: The subject’s very existence is open to debate

June 5, 2018 at 7:52 a.m.

Writer-director Roger Sherman's enjoyable documentary "In Search of Israeli Cuisine" explores the seemingly contradictory question: Is there really such a thing as Israeli food? What we learn, as award-winning Israeli...

‘Antarctica: Ice and Sky’ review: Documentary more like ‘March of the Glaciologist’

June 6, 2018 at 5:25 a.m.

For French explorer, scientist and glaciologist Claude Lorius, his work studying drilled polar ice as a groundbreaking way to chart temperature history was a lifelong thrill ride of wonder and...

‘Beauty and the Beast’ review: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel star in a very fractured fairy tale

June 9, 2018 at 7:58 a.m.

"I use antlers in all of my decorating," sang Gaston, the lunkish villain of Disney's 1991 "Beauty and the Beast," in a self-titled ode to macho excess. He'd no doubt...

‘Last Cab to Darwin’ review: An Aussie cabbie makes his exit plan

June 10, 2018 at 11:35 a.m.

The Australian import "Last Cab to Darwin" provides an emotionally textured look at one older gent's decision to take his waning life into his own resolute hands. Although this stirring,...

‘Do I Sound Gay?’ review: Doesn’t say enough about speech issues

June 15, 2018 at 1:38 p.m.

For a film largely about speech, the provocatively titled documentary "Do I Sound Gay?" has little of great significance to say. Writer-director-star David Thorpe attempts to probe the whys and...

‘Alleluia’ review: Gruesome love story

June 16, 2018 at 4:35 p.m.

The Belgian-French import "Alleluia" is inspired by the late-1940s case of American criminals Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, a.k.a. the Lonely Hearts Killers. Although stylish and unsettling, the film can't...

Review: ‘Marfa Girl’

June 15, 2018 at 8:37 p.m.

Funny thing about "Marfa Girl," the 2012 ensemble drama from idiosyncratic writer-director Larry Clark ("Kids," "Bully"): For all its meanderings and indulgences — verbal and visual — this free-form snapshot...

Review: ‘Swearnet: The Movie’ ★★ 1/2

June 17, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

Comic actors Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells portrayed the rude-and-lewd troika known as the Trailer Park Boys in the eponymous hit Canadian TV series as well as...

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