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Commentary: When the coronavirus fades, will we find any trace of it at the movies?

April 30, 2020 at 9:10 a.m.

When crises and cataclysms strike, they do their damage and then enter the bloodstream of everything we watch. What we see, often, is popular culture running the other way. With...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Pickwick Theatre employee Emmett McDonagh (cq) delivers popcorn to motorists waiting in a curbside pick up line in Park Ridge on Saturday, April 25, 2020.

Chicago’s movie theaters: federal aid for some, others tough it out. Meantime there’s popcorn at the Pickwick.

September 21, 2020 at 4:08 p.m.

This story contains updated information. Chicago and suburban film exhibitors have never faced a starker challenge than the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Illinois shelter-at-home order extended through May 30, and...

To the tune of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," protesters calling for the end of California's stay-at-home orders pass near the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, April 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,)

Theme song for a pandemic — and it only sounds like a joke: ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’

April 21, 2020 at 5:33 p.m.

In Chicago last month, the sing-a-long of choice was Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer," proof that it felt great to make some noise together. In California this week, protesters...

Whitney Houston performs "I Will Always Love You" in the 1992 film "The Bodyguard."

Tribune Overdue Film Festival: ‘Destry Rides Again,’ when Marlene Dietrich met James Stewart way out west

April 20, 2020 at 11:43 a.m.

You've seen a few movies. You've missed your share, too. Catching up with the ones you've skipped, by choice or by chance, shouldn't only be a matter of scratching one...

Now streaming on Facets: ‘Earth,’ a stunning documentary about how we rough up our planet every day

April 17, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

There are sights in the calmly enraging documentary "Earth" — the furthest thing from an Earth Day-friendly Disney nature doc imaginable — so gorgeous yet so sobering, you may not...

‘Tiger King’ has nothing on the insane 1981 big-cat adventure ‘Roar,’ now streaming via Drafthouse Films

April 15, 2020 at 2:20 p.m.

Through April 22, a big-cat drama at least 22 times more nerve-wracking than the Netflix documentary "Tiger King" is streaming online in care of Drafthouse Films and the Music Box...

Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly in a scene from the miniseries "Mrs. America," an FX original series premiering April 15 on Hulu.

‘Mrs. America’ review: FX miniseries scores with the ’70s war of the women’s movements, plural

April 15, 2020 at 6:40 p.m.

Does the nine-part FX miniseries "Mrs. America," premiering Wednesday on Hulu, treat Phyllis Schlafly like a conservative downstate Illinois she-devil? No. It doesn't. It couldn't sustain nearly nine hours of...

On Chicago's northwest side, the Logan Theatre marquee promises a return to moviegoing.

Opening today, for a movie theater employee near you: the Chicago Cinema Workers Fund

April 14, 2020 at 8:44 a.m.

The popcorn guy is out of work. The woman in the projection booth is unemployed. With nonprofit and for-profit moviegoing operations alike on hold, along with so much of the...

The closed AMC theaters at Block Thirty Seven on State St., are partially border up, due to coronavirus, Friday, April 3, 2020.

Commentary: If AMC folds, are we done going to the movies?

April 5, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

In times of pandemic crisis and economic catastrophe, we look for words of encouragement. Here are seven words wholly unqualified for that job: "Default imminent, with little prospect for recovery."...

Kelly O'Sullivan and Ramona Edith-Williams in the Chicago-made film "Saint Frances."

Now streaming via Music Box: ‘Saint Frances,’ a Chicago story of sisterhood. Co-starring Evanston.

April 2, 2020 at 12:44 p.m.

In "Saint Frances," a warm, skillfully acted Chicago-made debut feature now streaming, the central character, Bridget (not the title character), spends an eventful summer as a nanny in Evanston. This...

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