Monica Eng

Week 2 of the 34th Chicago International Film Festival isn't as strong as Week 1, but there are still gems to be scooped up. And there is still the anticipation...

The Rankin & Bass TV version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is such a holiday classic that it's hard to think that anyone would have the gumption to challenge its...

As grunge and hip-hop took over the airwaves in the early '90s, many parents found themselves at a loss for "decent" records by "safe" bands to which their young kids...

Here are capsule reviews for Wednesday films, listed in chronological order, that critics were able to view in advance for the 34th Chicago International Film Festival (a complete schedule is...

While traveling through the former Yugoslavia in the last year before the war, we grew fat on mass quantities of grilled sausages, gelato-like ice cream and burek. For the uninitiated,...

Cab drivers are the most experienced radio critics in Chicago. They know the dial as well as they know the streets. Like impatient commuters, some cabbies punch buttons until they...

Jazz. "And we don't mean `smooth jazz.' " Great vocalists. "And we don't mean Michael Bolton." World music. "From rara and reels to soukous and samba." '70s. "Miss the old...

It was quite a year for radio ridiculousness in 1985, as these excerpts from columns by former radio writer Eric Zorn demonstrate: May 23: Radio talk show host Warren Freiberg...

Q. What are the most effective ways to win radio station contests, where they give prizes to the seventh or 12th or 47th caller? A. Radio stations confirm that some...

`A Night at the Roxbury" may just be the thinnest "Saturday Night Live" skit ever to have undergone movie treatment. Even in its three-minute version on TV, the skit's one-note...