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A prickly treat: Prepare yourself for stylish, synthy tennis drama ‘Challengers’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 24, 2024 10:18 am - “Challengers” — 3.5 stars “Challengers” is a bit of a tease. That’s what makes it fun. There is plenty of skin, sweat, close-ups of muscly thighs and smoldering ...
What to stream this week: A Bon Jovi documentary, Idris Elba in ‘Knuckles’ and ‘Anyone But You’

By The Associated Press
Apr 23, 2024 6:14 am - The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell romantic comedy “Anyone But You” hitting Netflix and an album by Brazil superstar Anitta are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Civil War’ continues box-office campaign at No. 1

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 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 movie

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 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’

By MARK KENNEDY
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-Green

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 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 heist

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 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’

By MARK KENNEDY
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 yeti

By MARK KENNEDY
Apr 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 22

Submitted by After Hours Film Society
Apr 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.

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