Movie

  • Chicago Humanities Festival to Present Ron and Clint Howard in Conversation with Chaz Ebert

    - Oct 5, 2021
    The 2021 Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), which kicked off on September 25th and runs through Thursday, December 9th, has plenty of unmissable events scheduled throughout the fall (click here for the full list of events). Academy Award-winning...
  • Death Stranding Returns in Flashy Director’s Cut

    - Oct 4, 2021
    Of course, it makes sense that one of the most cinematic games of all time would get a “director’s cut,” but designer Hideo Kojima has asserted that the new edition of “Death Stranding” that came out...
  • Everything You Need to Know About the 94th Academy Awards (So Far)

    - Oct 4, 2021
    Avid Oscarologists out there realize that history was made last year. Yes, the show went on, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hollywood’s glitziest night took place on April 25—making it the longest awards season in...
  • Coming Home in the Dark

    - Oct 2, 2021
    “Coming Home in the Dark” initially feels like another entry in that subcategory of horror films where soft pampered city folk go out into the country to be terrorized by the locals. But while it cleaves...
  • Welcome to the Blumhouse: Black as Night

    - Oct 2, 2021
    There’s something didactic, almost teenage, about Maritte Lee Go’s flawed but entertaining “Black as Night” that should draw a line with its viewers. That feels to be intentional—given that it’s about a high schooler discovering vampires...
  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage

    - Sep 30, 2021
    “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is many things: a blockbuster comic-book sequel, a mismatched-buddy comedy, an opportunity for some gloriously self-aware overacting. But at its core, beneath the wacky quips and gnashing teeth and gobs of...
  • It Was What It Was: David Chase on The Many Saints of Newark

    - Sep 30, 2021
    It’s been over a decade since the end of “The Sopranos,” but we’re returning to that world this week with the long-delayed arrival of “The Many Saints of Newark,” a film that’s being advertised as “A...
  • No One Gets Out Alive

    - Sep 29, 2021
    An undocumented immigrant is in her rundown apartment alone trying to call family back home. At least, she thinks she’s alone. She’s not. She’s the first on-screen in a long line of victims in Santiago Menghini’s...
  • No Time to Die

    - Sep 29, 2021
    After months of delays, the 25th official James Bond film is finally here in “No Time to Die,” an epic (163 minutes!) action film that presents 007 with one of his toughest missions: End the era...
  • Visionary Deathloop Plays with Gaming Structure and Expectations

    - Sep 28, 2021
    Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks’ “Deathloop,” exclusively available on the PlayStation 5 and PC, is a hard game to describe. In the run-up to its release, quick-hit commercials that seemed to feature little to no actual gameplay...