Column: About that ‘SNL’ student protest sketch — and a lousy time for political satire
Chicago comedy expert Anne Libera says that satire "is not a useful tool today." That's why last weekend's "SNL" opener came up empty.
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Column: An ode to failure: Some classic movies were flops when they first came out
Know that phrase "the numbers don't lie"? It's a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection...
Review: ‘Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ is a deadpan sex comedy now at the Film Center
In "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed," one woman's submissive relationships make for a bracingly harsh romcom.
‘The Fall Guy’ review: It has stunts, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. And almost a story.
It's a drag that this movie leans on bone-crunching mayhem that marginalizes its own headliners' wit and charm. Yet it's a pretty good time.
‘The Idea of You’ review: My daughter went to Coachella and all I got was this hunky pop star
Streaming on Prime Video, "The Idea of You" is a pretty-people-problems romance. Anne Hathaway authenticates the feeling in it, luckily.
Column: Will Sundance Institute x Chicago be good for the local film industry?
There’ll be more than one story to write about “Sundance Institute x Chicago,” coming to town June 28-30. Consider these to be some preliminary questions to be answered in a...
‘Challengers’ review: Tennis, everyone? Zendaya keeps a juicy romantic triangle spinning
With Zendaya playing a ferociously competitive tennis coach, torn between two lobbers, the super-ripe romantic drama "Challengers" delivers.
Column: AI moviemaking software ‘so easy an alien could do it.’ But where do visual effects go from here?
Wonder Dynamics is selling a special-effects tool to budding filmmakers at a low price. Are movies better for it?
‘We Grown Now’ review: Coming of age in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green projects, in a movie of true distinction
In 1992 Chicago, near the end of the Cabrini-Green housing projects, two boys navigate a world changing fast in Minhal Baig's beguiling film.
‘The Beast’ review: In 2044, AI takes care of business, while Léa Seydoux takes care of the movie
Léa Seydoux and George MacKay play yearning, reincarnated lovers across three eras. MacKay is good; Seydoux excels.