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A scene from "In the Heights" and a steak jibarito from Jibaritos y Mas ($7.85)

Watch this. Eat that: Need a Mother’s Day treat? Pair ‘An American in Paris’ with tasty crepes

May 7, 2021 at 9:20 p.m.

Watch this: 'An American in Paris' For a Mother's Day column, I talked to my mom about her favorite movie experience: seeing director Vincente Minnelli's "An American in Paris" in...

Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died at age 98 on Dec. 5, 2021.

Olympia Dukakis remembered: A life in the theater, and then ‘Moonstruck’ made her famous

May 3, 2021 at 11:26 a.m.

We forget how people say things, exactly. We forget, even if we remember who said "Your life's going down the toilet!" Olympia Dukakis said it in "Moonstruck." She won the...

It's impossible not to love "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," starring Brandy in the title role and Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother. This production by Disney and ABC (also produced by Houston) originally premiered in 1997 and quickly became a culturally significant performance due to the groundbreaking casting. The film has had such an inter-generational impact that Disney+ only recently added the musical to the streaming site after fans and Brandy made many urging requests over social media. "Cinderella" stars Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, Victor Garber, Natalie Desselle-Reid and Paolo Montalban. (Disney+) — Hannah Herrera Greenspan

With capacity limit raised, Music Box Theatre books Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’

April 30, 2021 at 12:50 p.m.

With Chicago's new indoor venue capacity limits, movie theaters squeaking by amid the COVID-19 pandemic have a fighting chance, according to Music Box Theatre general manager Ryan Oestreich, to "actually...

What to watch: Try something old with ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ or something new with Anna Kendrick in Netflix’s ‘Stowaway’

April 30, 2021 at 8:31 a.m.

Wondering what to watch this week? Check out our weekly film and TV recommendations. We want to know what you're streaming, too. Click here to share your picks with us....

‘Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse’ review: According to Michael B. Jordan, the time is payback o’clock and counting

April 30, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

"Not for honor. Not for country. For his wife and child." Along with Harrison Ford's scowl, those words dominated the poster for the 1992 film "Patriot Games," the first of...

‘Limbo’ movie review: A disarming Syrian refugee story with a Scottish burr

April 29, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

The phone booth sits in the middle of nowhere, beside a thin, forlorn stretch of road, somewhere on an unnamed island off Scotland. The landscape, gorgeous and forbidding, suggests dsytopia,...

Watch this. Eat that: Head to Bridgeview before streaming new seriocomedy ‘Limbo’

April 29, 2021 at 8:13 a.m.

Watch this: 'Limbo' Those with warm memories of Bill Forsyth's "Local Hero" should take note. Opening Friday, the wry Scottish seriocomedy "Limbo" concerns a young Syrian refugee (Amir El-Masry) awaiting...

Orson Welles takes the lead role in his film 'Citizen Kane', directed by himself for RKO.

Rotten Tomatoes downgrades ‘Citizen Kane’ to a 99; critic responsible missing, presumed nonexistent

April 28, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

Tough week for "Citizen Kane"! Let's hope its reputation can survive it. On Sunday's lowest-rated Academy Awards ceremony ever, "Mank" — director David Fincher's Netflix project about Herman J. Mankiewicz,...

Maria Bakalova attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, Calif.

Commentary: Oscar night ends with the Chadwick Boseman triumph that wasn’t, and valentines to ‘movie love’

April 26, 2021 at 12:41 p.m.

Aside from the Chadwick Boseman Oscar triumph that wasn't, what can we say about Sunday's train-station Academy Awards? We can say a few things out of chronological order, because our...

‘Mare of Easttown’ review: Kate Winslet and Eastern Pennsylvania, lending truth to pulp fiction

April 25, 2021 at 9:00 p.m.

HBO's darkly engaging crime story "Mare of Easttown" finds executive producer and star Kate Winslet playing two roles, though not in the Mark Ruffalo "This Much I Know is True"...

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