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Frances McDormand in a scene from the film "Nomadland" by Chloe Zhao.

Some Fall 2020 movie highlights, highly dependent on how much ends up getting shoved into 2021

September 15, 2020 at 9:51 a.m.

This story contains corrected material. There is so much up for grabs this fall, including the pandemic state of actual, physical moviegoing. How many films' release dates will turn to...

Netflix ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ trailer just dropped. In the worst way, it’s right on time.

September 14, 2020 at 8:07 a.m.

It's a film about Chicago's notorious summer of 1968, but it speaks directly to Chicago's 2020. Chicago police, bearing rifles, staring down protesters bearing signs that say "An Attack Against...

‘Devil All the Time’ review: Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson wrestle with their sins in a bloody Southern Gothic

September 11, 2020 at 4:00 a.m.

If you can get over the grisly familiarity of the material, and a convenient lack of moral complication surrounding the avenging angel played by Tom "Spider-Man" Holland, the Netflix feature...

Carrie Coon at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, where she is starring as Agnes in "Bug," written by husband Tracy Letts in the 1990s.

Carrie Coon interview: ‘Art is like love. There’s nothing finite about it.’

September 9, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

To become an actor is to become a risk management specialist without really trying. To remain an actor in the middle of a pandemic, one that has left all but...

John Belushi documentary to open Chicago Film Festival, online and at the Pilsen drive-in

September 9, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.

Fifteen years in development, the new Showtime documentary "Belushi," a portrait of comic whirlwind and legendary Second City and "Saturday Night Live" alum John Belushi, opens this year's hybrid edition...

HBO ‘Coastal Elites’ review: Dispatches from the hell of early 2020, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Paulson and Issa Rae

September 8, 2020 at 1:48 p.m.

The five monologues making up Paul Rudnick's "Coastal Elites" were originally planned for an early 2020 New York staging, to be taped for a later HBO special. The COVID-19 pandemic...

A combination of book covers for "Give Us the Ballot" by Ari Berman, "Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty" by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt and "Nothing to See Here" by Kevin Wilson

2020 is winding down, but the drama isn’t: Read these books now to make sense of it

September 7, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

Trainwreck. Demented. A dumpster fire of a year. We've all seen the social media memes, and most of us are ready to be done with 2020. But it isn't over...

Chris Johnson, CEO of Classic Cinemas and National Association of Theater owners Illinois, stands outside his theater Tivoli and his bowling alley in Downers Grove, Friday Aug. 28, 2020.

Chris Johnson, Classic Cinemas CEO: representing Illinois movie theaters, while working through his own reopening timeline

September 4, 2020 at 7:33 a.m.

Chris Johnson runs the family business, and in his business, being an ingrained optimist stands out when pessimism is so much easier. The 53-year-old Johnson runs the much-loved Classic Cinemas...

‘Mulan’ review: Disney’s live-action remake of the 1998 animated feature succeeds, handsomely

September 3, 2020 at 11:38 a.m.

That's more like it! Director Niki Caro's stirring live-action spin on the animated 1998 Disney "Mulan" looks, works and breathes like a real movie, not a corporate recycling project. Disney...

John David Washington in a scene from "Tenet."

‘Tenet’ review: Saving the world, backwards, makes for an uneven Christopher Nolan thriller

September 3, 2020 at 9:47 a.m.

"Tenet" is about saving the world, backward and in heels. Off-screen, Christopher Nolan's quarter-billion-dollar palindrome shoulders a ridiculous load of COVID-defying, multiplex-rescuing, world-saving expectations. A few days ago Warner Brothers...

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