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‘Ad Astra’ review: Brad Pitt soars to Neptune and beyond for some family therapy and introspection

September 20, 2019 at 10:17 a.m.

However expansive its interplanetary horizons, "Ad Astra" sets its course for one star above all. The film is Brad Pitt in close-up, a lot. Now: Can audiences who like the...

Keir Dullea as astronaut Dave Bowman in director Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Dullea will introduce a screening Wednesday at the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge. (Warner Bros. via AP)

Wednesday at the Pickwick Theatre: 10 things you don’t know about Keir Dullea, “2001: A Space Odyssey”

September 16, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

"Come join the festivities!" That was the come-on, misleadingly chipper considering the movie, ballyhooed in the newspaper ads for the gala world premiere of "2001: A Space Odyssey." The first...

‘Downton Abbey’ review: The servants are revolting

September 19, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

Into our disheveled modern world, run by politically, morally and sartorially sloppy leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, the feature film version of "Downton Abbey" arrives just in time...

A composer’s chilling “Get Out” score highlights Chicago’s fall movie season

September 13, 2019 at 9:10 a.m.

The composer Michael Abels, creator of the fantastically eerie music for Jordan Peele's "Get Out," remembers three things in particular about growing up with adoptive grandparents on a farm outside...

Joe Pesci, left, and Robert De Niro in a scene from Martin Scorses's "The Irishman," which will be released in theaters shortly before streaming on Netflix.

Fall preview: Forget ‘Joker.’ Here’s 10 better movies to see.

September 13, 2019 at 9:03 a.m.

Look at the poster of "Gemini Man," and there's the future of movies, coming to kill you. In director Ang Lee's thriller, a hotshot assassin must elude the only pursuer...

‘Hustlers’ review: J-Lo, Constance Wu and Cardi B strip Wall Street boys of their assets

September 12, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

"Hustlers" offers a shiny, enjoyable, montage-intensive lesson in transactional economics. It's about Manhattan strip club employees who make their money, on stage and off, backed by a soundtrack featuring "Shake...

A stunt car drives off the parking garage at Marina City during the filming of "Hunter," starring Steve McQueen on Sept. 21, 1979, in Chicago. The car crashed into the Chicago River below. It was McQueen's last movie before his death in 1980.

Flashback: The stunt that made Marina City immortal, even if Steve McQueen’s final movie isn’t

September 12, 2019 at 8:22 a.m.

From the sidewalk on Dearborn Street, it was 15 floors up. Seventeen, from the river level. Some accounts split the difference, and had the Pontiac Grand Prix, with a mannequin...

See Harriet Tubman biopic, movies starring Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig and Jamie Foxx early at Chicago Film Fest

September 11, 2019 at 5:10 p.m.

The full lineup of the 55th Chicago International Film Festival will be unveiled Sept. 18. But festival artistic director Mimi Plauché announced titles for the gala and special presentation programs...

A scene from Roman Polanski's movie 'J'accuse (An Officer and a Spy).'?(Venice International Film Festival/TNS) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS **

Venice film festival: One of the world’s great film gatherings gives us a sneak peek at what’s coming to Chicago’s film fest in October

September 5, 2019 at 2:08 p.m.

For a couple of days there, the 76th Venice film festival concluding this Sunday had all the nice Adriatic Sea air sucked out of its lungs by "Joker," thanks to...

Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman walk the red carpet ahead of the "The Laundromat" screening during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 01, 2019 in Venice, Italy.

Venice review: ‘The Laundromat’ with Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas and a whole lot of dirty, dirty money

September 2, 2019 at 10:23 a.m.

"The Laundromat" is a deliberately drab metaphor of a title, duller than director Steven Soderbergh's nimble, sardonic movie deserves. It skips along as a black comedy about fishy offshore companies...

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