Bleak, bittersweet and tough: I miss 1970s movies, the ones for grown-ups before ‘Star Wars’
This column started with a quote-tweet, or whatever we're calling them now. Earlier this week,...
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In appreciation: From director Norman Jewison, 10 to watch from ‘In the Heat of the Night’ to ‘The Hurricane’
There is no quintessential Norman Jewison movie. There are only wide-ranging examples of the Canadian-born...
Column: The ‘Barbie’ Oscar snubs aren’t about genre bias — unless you’re misspelling the word ‘gender’
Last year was an unusually strong year for the movies, and the Academy Award nominations...
‘Lincoln Is Crying’ movie takes a comedic look at the corruption that stains Illinois … and Chicago
John Davies has been a television producer for most of his adult life, Tom Weinberg...
Norman Jewison, director of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘Moonstruck,’ dead at 97
NEW YORK — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris...
Review: ‘Last Things,’ from a true Chicago poet of experimentalism, now at the Film Center
Fifty minutes: so many ways you can spend that amount of time. Reading. Running. Cooking....
‘Mean Girls’ fetches $11.7M in second weekend to stay No. 1 at box office
NEW YORK — On a quiet weekend in movie theaters, "Mean Girls" repeated atop the box office...
Alec Baldwin indicted on manslaughter charge in ‘Rust’ shooting
Alec Baldwin has been indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, as prosecutors once again seek...
‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ review: Nerve-wracking school drama is a cinch for next week’s Oscar nominations
You can read it online, or — better — you can sweat it out in...
To make science more approachable, ‘Curiosity’ series takes viewers behind the scenes of scientists’ lives
Stepping inside Erin Adams' lab at the University of Chicago is a bit overstimulating. Adams'...