Movies
-
‘Civil War’ continues box-office campaign at No. 1Apr 21, 2024 2:50 pm - “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
-
‘Civil War’ and the elusiveness of the of-the-moment movieApr 18, 2024 3:59 pm - The movies are good at resurrecting the past and imagining the future, but pinning down the present can be tricky.
-
A heist movie gleefully collides with a monster movie in ‘Abigail’Apr 18, 2024 11:56 am - If you always thought your garden-variety heist movies could do with a bit more blood-sucking vampire, have we got a flick for you. “Abigail,” featuring a 12-year-old tutu-wearing member of the undead, is a gleeful genre-smashing romp through puddles of gore.
-
‘We Grown Now’ a lyrical portrait of childhood growing up in Cabrini-GreenApr 18, 2024 11:45 am - Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development.
-
‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ amps up a true-tale WWII heistApr 18, 2024 7:58 am - The latest Guy Ritchie flick, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush.
-
Love wins in triumphant ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’Apr 17, 2024 12:39 pm - In “Housekeeping for Beginners,” writer and director Goran Stolevski gives us an atypical family portrait that's brilliantly political without being preachy, loving without being maudlin and epic by being specifically tiny.
-
Should you watch ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ about a family of Bigfoots? Not yetiApr 17, 2024 12:20 pm - “Sasquatch Sunset,” from filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner, is a bewildering 90-minute, narrator-less and wordless experiment that's as audacious as it is infuriating.
-
After Hours Film Society to show ‘Common Ground’ on Earth Day April 22Apr 18, 2024 12:01 pm - On Earth Day, the After Hours Film Society will present Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s 2023 documentary “Common Ground” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.
-
‘Civil War’ declares victory at the box office, toppling ‘Godzilla x Kong’Apr 18, 2024 12:01 pm - Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse. The film also inspired audiences to go to the cinemas this weekend where it surpassed expectations and earned $25.7 million in ticket sales in North America.
-
What to stream this week: Conan O’Brien travels, ‘Migration’ soars and Taylor Swift will reignApr 12, 2024 4:46 pm - Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” album and Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver” landing on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.