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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ shows war through one child’s extraordinary eyes

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Jul 17, 2025 2:04 pm - “Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified mother. It feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an extraordinary first-time actor who gives one of the more compelling child performances in recent memory in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.”
Embeth Davidtz drew on her childhood in South Africa to adapt memoir for film

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jul 17, 2025 12:53 pm - In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz’s family was going back. And it’s where she’d return decades later to direct her first film, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” an adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up during the Bush War in Zimbabwe.
Movie review: ‘Smurfs’ has Rihanna but not much else

By JAKE COYLE
Jul 17, 2025 10:44 am - “Smurfs” gets as much mileage as it can from its pop singer-voice actor Rihanna, who supplies a new song, giving a half-hearted injection of star power to an otherwise uninspired, modestly scaled, kiddo-friendly cartoon feature.
‘Eddington’ is a satire about our broken brains that might re-break your brain

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jul 17, 2025 5:30 am - You might need to lie down for a bit after “Eddington.” Ari Aster’s latest nightmare vision is sure to divide (along which lines, I can’t fathom), but there is one thing I think everyone will be able to agree on: It is an experience that will leave you asking “WHAT?”
Movie review: Nostalgia, gore collide in new ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 16, 2025 11:42 am - The new “I Know What You Did Last Summer” pretty much follows the plot of the 1997 film of the same name: A bunch of well-to-do young people get stalked and killed by a vengeful killer in a rain slicker with an ice hook. By aping the structure of the original, the new version is too reliant on the past to fully break free of that gravitational pull.
Best Bets: Comedian shares his life’s stories, Cantigny fetes French culture

By Barbara Vitello
Jul 14, 2025 12:48 pm - Comedian Steve Solomon shares his life stories in Skokie, Cantigny celebrates French culture in Wheaton and Chicago’s iO Theater welcomes sketch-comedy troupes from around the country.
What to stream: Dragons, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Roddy Ricch and ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’

Jul 14, 2025 5:30 am - The live-action remake of the animated film “How to Train Your Dragon” and a two-part, five-hour documentary on Billy Joel are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Superman’ and DC Studios fly to a $122 million opening

By JAKE COYLE
Jul 13, 2025 3:51 pm - NEW YORK — In a bid to kickoff a new era for DC Studios, James Gunn’s “Superman” opened with $122 million in U.S. and Canada ticket sales over the weekend, according to s...
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ for its 50th anniversary

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jul 10, 2025 4:56 pm - Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a re-release in suburban theaters on Sunday, July 13, and Wednesday, July 16. The film would go on to sweep the “big five” Oscars, including actor.
Want to know Rachel Brosnahan’s secret? First share yours.

By Thomas Floyd
Jul 10, 2025 3:41 pm - Rachel Brosnahan, who grew up in Highland Park, embraces the character of ambitious reporter Lois Lane in the new “Superman” movie.

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