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Zazu (left, voiced by John Oliver) and young Simba (voiced by JD McCrary) have a heart-to-heart chat in "The Lion King."

‘The Lion King’ review: I cannot feel the love tonight

July 18, 2019 at 12:41 p.m.

I don't know how they did it. But Disney's pristine, photorealistic rendering of the animated smash "The Lion King" trades one style of animation for another, marking a simultaneous advance...

‘Werewolf Ninja Philosopher’ review: When your private eye’s extra-hairy, and someone’s killing the indie filmmakers in New York

July 18, 2019 at 12:39 p.m.

Who is killing the indie filmmakers of New York City? Opening Friday for a weeklong run at Facets, the deadpan film noir riff "Werewolf Ninja Philosopher" frames its concerns around...

"Sword of Trust" writer-director Lynn Shelton and star Marc Maron, photographed at a July 11, 2019 event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Marc Maron interview: On Lou Malnati’s, ‘Sword of Trust’ and ‘the trickiest part of acting’

July 18, 2019 at 12:40 p.m.

Marc Maron, actor, comic, "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast host, has come through Chicago a lot in recent years. A few days on the Joe Swanberg Netflix series "Easy" (now...

‘Sword of Trust’ review: Marc Maron’s pawn shop owner takes on Civil War conspiracy theorists

July 16, 2019 at 11:42 a.m.

A glass three-fifths full, writer-director Lynn Shelton's affable comedy "Sword of Trust"gets by on the improvisational wiles of its cast. For those looking for it, there's also a glimmer or...

‘The Farewell’ review: Playing a delicate game of Chinese family charades

July 18, 2019 at 12:40 p.m.

"The Farewell" sustains a mood, tone and strategy of clean lines, orderly framing and emotional containment. But that doesn't mean writer-director Lulu Wang's second feature lacks what you might call...

Kaya Scodelario refuses to give in to a gator in "Crawl."

‘Crawl’ review: Chicago, your alligator movie has arrived. Capture that Humboldt Park lagoon creature NOW!!!

July 12, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

At one point in "Crawl," a grim yet snappy little thriller about killer alligators bringing an estranged daughter and father closer together, the actress Kaya Scodelario emerges from the floodwaters...

Robert Redford and Paul Newman starred in the 1969 smash "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," whose sardonic Oscar-winning William Goldman script influenced a half-century of imitators.

‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ at 50: Is it a relic or a classic?

August 3, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.

A lot of huge movies never become cultural reference points the way "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" has, in the near-half-century since its fall 1969 premiere. Butch and Sundance...

‘The Juniper Tree’ review: When the Brothers Grimm traveled to Iceland, with Bjork

July 10, 2019 at 7:58 p.m.

A hushed and enveloping 1990 fairy tale, "The Juniper Tree" marked the feature film debut of the American writer-director Nietzchka Keene, who died in 2004 at the age of 52....

Chicago police officers, including Charley Henson, second from right, carry the body of Marie Brown, who died of heat-related causes from her apartment on July 17, 1995.

‘Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code’ review: A withering look at the 1995 Chicago heat wave

July 10, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

If handled by our elected officials with some urgency, money and political sense, the monumental natural disasters that afflict us every year should be an easy, nonpartisan win inside a...

Milos Stehlik, who died July 6, 2019 of complications from lung cancer, founded Facets Multimedia in 1975. In this 2009 photograph he is pictured inside the Facets video rental shop, one of several services housed in the nonprofit organization's home at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave.

Milos Stehlik, longtime force and eloquent voice in Chicago and international film, dies at 70

July 7, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

Facets Multimedia founder Milos Stehlik, a key figure in the development, sophistication and global reach of Chicago's film culture, died Saturday. He was 70. Program director Charles Coleman, reached Sunday,...

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