First look at ‘No Time to Die’: 7 thoughts on the new James Bond 007 movie
Our full review of "No Time to Die" (in theaters only, on Oct. 8) will publish later this week. For now, seven thoughts on Daniel Craig's promised final go at...
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‘The Many Saints of Newark’ aims to be more than a ‘Sopranos’ prequel — writer and stars meet in Bucktown to talk about their creation
It's a sunny weekday morning before opening time at Bucktown's Club Lucky. A couple of large black SUVs appear to be guarding the intersection of Wabansia and Honore, engines off,...
Chicago-born filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles made his feature debut outside America. He had to.
We can thank France, not America, for the flowering of Melvin Van Peebles' feature film career. The Chicago native, who grew up in suburban Phoenix about 20 miles south of...
Nashville homophobia and lost Hollywood pipe dreams are among our top picks for ‘Reeling’ LGBTQ+ film festival
"What if?" Two words; one question. The movies love that question. It fulfills the weirdest daydreams, unearths long-buried treasure, imagines what might've been and might be still. Three of the...
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ review: A Broadway hit misses on screen. Tony winner Ben Platt’s age? It’s not the real problem.
So much storytelling in popular culture, musical theater included, relies on the narrative usefulness and emotional exploitation of the delayed secret. And "Dear Evan Hansen" would be nothing without it....
‘Dune,’ ‘French Dispatch,’ world premieres about ‘Mayor Pete’ and Harold Washington add to the Chicago Film Fest lineup
This year's Oct. 13-24 Chicago International Film Festival, revealed more or less in full Monday after the drip-drip-drip of earlier partial announcements, lets audiences have it every which way. It'll...
Column: Why Michaela Coel’s Emmy win means more than ‘Ted Lasso’s’ waves of love
It is so unfair to compare one work of art or commerce, or streaming entity, against another. Yet here we are, the morning after the Emmy Awards. Best of luck...
Facets reopens in Chicago, a year after the sky fell on independent cinema — and also the roof caved in on Fullerton
This weekend, the Chicago nonprofit cinema mainstay Facets, located in a large, needy, late 19th century building on West Fullerton, reopens after 18 months of enforced downtime. The pause, like...
Top 10 movies for fall 2021: Our hopes for streams and the cineplex, from Bond on down
While spring can really hang you up the most, as a great old song put it, autumn 2021 feels like an honorary spring in the making. Suspended cultural animation. Uncertain...
ChiTown Movies in Pilsen is still open, still serving good food, still saving the movie drive-in experience for Chicago as we head into fall
Bryce Bowman is a West Point graduate, U.S. veteran and accidental outdoor movie theater operator. He specializes in property management and real estate. In 2019, the year before COVID-19, he...