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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1964, file photo, Japan's players celebrate with their gold medals following an award ceremony after defeating the Soviet Union in their women's volleyball gold medal match at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics are being remembered fondly following the postponement until 2021 of the Tokyo 2020 Games. The '64 Olympics were the first to be televised internationally using communication satellites. (AP Photo/N.Masaki, File)

Before the Tokyo Olympics, watch these 5 revealing movies set at the 1964 games

July 21, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

Like many Hollywood blockbusters delayed by the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics open this week with the expectation of greatly diminished returns. Delayed for a year by the COVID-19 outbreak but...

This image released by Netflix shows Millie Bobby Brown in a scene from "Enola Holmes." (Netflix via AP)

Review: Sherlock who? Millie Bobby Brown is terrific in the clever ‘Enola Holmes’

September 23, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.

Amy March, Scout Finch, Lisa Simpson ... you never know what you're going to get in a younger sister, and Enola Holmes is as surprising as any of them. Bursting...

Sophia Hammons in a scene from "The Social Dilemma."

‘The Social Dilemma’ review: A call to digital arms demands change

September 10, 2020 at 8:32 a.m.

Jeff Orlowski's "The Social Dilemma" may be the most important documentary you see this year. An indictment of the tech industry, the film succinctly lays out the damage being done...

In this Sept. 14, 2016, file photo, Matt Stutzman, of United States, holds the bow with his foot as he competes in the individual compound-open, during the Paralympic Games at the Sambadrome, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Stutzman is among several Paralympic athletes who are profiled in the Nexflix documentary "Rising Phoenix."

‘Rising Phoenix’ review: Spotlighting athletes of the Paralympics while the Olympics are postponed

August 27, 2020 at 8:34 a.m.

Days before the close of the 2012 London Olympics, banners appeared around the city bearing the logo of the soon-to-follow Paralympic Games and proclaiming, "Thanks for the warm-up." That cheeky,...

"Grisha" with his boyfriend "Bodgan" in the documentary "Welcome to Chechnya."

Review: When Chechnya came for its LGBTQ citizens, these brave activists stepped up

July 1, 2020 at 8:28 a.m.

With 2020 such a nightmare (and we're still in the first act), it's sometimes a challenge to wrap our brains around the world's many pre-existing crises. David France's daring new...

‘7500’ review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt excels in the tense hijacking thriller

June 18, 2020 at 8:40 a.m.

If you're apprehensive about flying in the age of COVID-19, the tense airborne terrorism thriller "7500" will not make it any easier to return to the skies. Set in pre-coronavirus...

‘The Half of It’ review: Netflix has another rom-com winner in high school story

April 30, 2020 at 10:43 a.m.

For filmmaker Alice Wu, romance is a gantlet to be run, a portal through which we experience the pain and embarrassment necessary to teach us what love is. Wu's second...

What’s ahead for the cast and director following the mega-success of ‘Black Panther’

December 14, 2018 at 10:30 p.m.

The blockbuster success of Marvel’s “Black Panther” figures to up the already in-demand status of director Ryan Coogler and his stars, many of whom continue their roles in “Avengers: Infinity...

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>

‘The Commitments’ turns 25: How it became Alan Parker’s most enjoyable film to make

December 17, 2018 at 5:39 p.m.

In summer 1991, a small movie about a group of young Dubliners who form a band to play American soul music opened with little fanfare. "The Commitments," directed by Alan...

‘Endgame’ review: Predictable chess drama

June 16, 2018 at 2:23 p.m.

The latest in what seems like a recent spate of chess movies, "Endgame" stars Rico Rodriguez (Manny on TV's "Modern Family") as José Perez, a Texas middle-schooler with age-old problems....

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