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Tom Cruise is finally getting an Oscar — as will Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen and Wynn Thomas

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 17, 2025 1:41 pm - Twenty-five years after Tom Cruise received his first Oscar nomination, he’s finally getting a trophy. It’s not for his death-defying stunts, either. At least, not exclusively.
Best Bets: Swingin’ at Cantigny, ‘Wicked’ sing-along at Paramount, The Wiggles at Rosemont Theatre

By Barbara Vitello
Jun 17, 2025 12:36 pm - Cantigny debuts musical swings, Wheaton welcomes craft beer lovers, The Wiggles return to Rosemont and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art hosts a daylong Japan fest to coincide with its exhibit “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World.”
Illinois Holocaust Museum to show ‘First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler’

Submitted by Suzan Ayscough
Jun 16, 2025 10:11 pm - The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will host a film screening and discussion on "First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler" on June 26.
After Hours Film Society to show ‘John & Yoko’ film

Submitted by After Hours Film Society
Jun 16, 2025 5:32 pm - On June 16, the After Hours Film Society will host a screening of "One to One: John & Yoko" at Tivoli Theatre, providing an immersive cinematic experience with never-before-seen footage and remastered audio of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
What to stream: ‘The Gilded Age,’ Benson Boone, astronaut Sally Ride and digital dinosaurs

Jun 16, 2025 5:30 am - Lifelike digital Triceratops and Spinosaurus lumbering through a reimagined “Walking with Dinosaurs” and Benson Boone's sophomore album “American Heart” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ soars in box office debut with $83.7 million, beating ‘Lilo & Stitch’

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
Jun 15, 2025 3:06 pm - “How to Train Your Dragon” took flight at the box office this weekend, proving that some remakes still have teeth.
‘Prime Minister’ reveals private side of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern

By Ty Burr
Jun 14, 2025 1:59 pm - As sympathetic — and therefore potentially biased — as “Prime Minister” is to its subject, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, it’s also one of the most arrestingly intimate political documentaries you’ll see.
‘The Unholy Trinity’ is far from the best of the West

By Ty Burr
Jun 13, 2025 8:42 am - “The Unholy Trinity” is a reminder that they don’t make ’em like they used to — and maybe that’s a good thing. A pokey, low-budget Western enlivened by a couple of aging stars happily hamming it up, it’s the kind of B movie they used to program before the feature and after the cartoon in the old days.
Stephen King on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the end of the world and, yes, joy

By JAKE COYLE
Jun 13, 2025 6:40 am - For half a century, since Brian De Palma’s 1976 film “Carrie,” Hollywood has turned, and turned again, to Stephen King’s books for their richness of character, nightmare and sheer entertainment.
Dakota Johnson, Celine Song on love, dating and ‘Materialists’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 12, 2025 9:33 pm - Filmmaker Celine Song and actress Dakota Johnson discuss how the dating scene works in real life and in movies in the modern day love story “Materialists.”

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