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Review: ‘Grizzly II: Revenge,’ in which a young George Clooney (and his mullet) are killed by a bear. In the first five minutes.

October 20, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.

Tonight only at 9:30 p.m., the monthlong Music Box of Horrors drive-in festival presents a terrible movie of legitimate historical interest, if only for George Clooney, Laura Dern, George Clooney's...

Jacqueline Stewart, a University of Chicago professor will head LA's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opening April 2021.

Chicago’s Jacqueline Stewart to head LA’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

October 27, 2020 at 7:17 a.m.

Scheduled for an April 30, 2021 opening, the newly restored and expanded Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has tapped Chicago's Jacqueline Stewart as Chief Artistic and Programming...

Responding to COVID, the Chicago International Film Festival trailer makes lemonade out of viral lemons

October 16, 2020 at 5:52 p.m.

Sometimes it takes a pandemic to get creative minds thinking a new way about an old Chicago cultural institution. To wit, and we do mean wit: Check out this delightful...

‘Rebecca’ review: A series of flat tires, on the road to Manderley

October 15, 2020 at 7:26 a.m.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again, and all you got was this lousy Netflix remake. The pretty, empty, emotionally frictionless and touch-free new "Rebecca" adaptation, starring Lily...

Kate Walsh, left, and Liam Neeson in a scene from "Honest Thief." (Open Road Films via AP)

‘Honest Thief’ review: Liam Neeson, with heart. And more homemade explosives.

October 13, 2020 at 10:52 a.m.

In "Honest Thief," in theaters this Friday if you're good with that, Liam Neeson portrays a softer, PG-13-rated side of the morally righteous lone wolves running through his 21st Century...

5 hot tips for the Chicago International Film Festival, starting Wednesday

October 12, 2020 at 2:31 p.m.

Here we are. Another October, not like all the others, and another Chicago International Film Festival, also not like the others — yet fully in sync with the virtual/in-person hyrbid...

‘Spontaneous’ review: When ‘Heathers’ met ‘Scanners,’ with a side order of ‘Fault in Our Stars’

October 6, 2020 at 1:04 p.m.

Snark with heart, and scads of exploding high school seniors, "Spontaneous" (now on demand, as in "I demand to see the bodies explode") will likely hold some interest for those...

Alex Baldwin (left) as President Trump and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden in the Oct. 3, 2020 season opener of "Saturday Night Live."

‘SNL’ review: With Trump in the hospital, a nervous season opener finds itself between a 30 Rock and a hard place

October 4, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

Saturday night, once again, Donald Trump — longtime hater (and host) of "Saturday Night Live," COVID-19 patient and current U.S. president — sucked all the air out of the room,...

‘Possessor’ review: Brandon Cronenberg delivers eerie mind-control thriller

October 1, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

A clever, crazy-gory second feature from writer-director Brandon Cronenberg, "Possessor" points to a young filmmaker indebted to the work of his famous father: "Scanners," "Dead Ringers" and "A History of...

Bill Murray and Rashida Jones in Sofia Coppola's "On the Rocks." (Courtesy of A24/Apple+)

‘On the Rocks’ review: When ‘low-keyed’ becomes ‘low interest,’ despite Bill Murray and Rashida Jones

September 29, 2020 at 2:15 p.m.

In 2003, writer-director Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray collaborated on "Lost in Translation," which did a lot for both careers. Now Coppola and Murray have teamed up again for a...

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