Christian Bale is right–his Batman isn’t as good as the movies
For the record: I think Christopher Nolan did a really good job with his Batman trilogy, with the fantastic "The Dark Knight" surrounded by two good movies: "Batman Begins" and...
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See ‘Mean Girls’ on the big screen at ArcLight’s Second City Wednesdays
Not that you needed another reason to go to the excellent new ArcLight Cinemas in Lincoln Park (seriously, if you haven't been over to the NewCity complex and all its...
At what point do movies become bad foreign policy?
"Tell them to go back to Fuckheadistan or wherever they come from." Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), the hero of what is now a two-movie franchise crassly transforming...
Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, many more appearing at Onion/A.V. Club comedy fest
If you ever think, "Man, I wish more big-name comedians would come to Chicago in some sort of festival-esque setting," you're both right and in for a treat. Today the...
3 notable election-related movies you can stream now on Netflix
The drama, the competition, the colorful personalities, the controversy. Elections have "turn me into a movie" written all over them. Rather than try to round up all the ones that...
10 Instagram posts that show Brie Larson is a winner at more than the Oscars
Thanks to her Oscar-winning performance in "Room," Brie Larson is now the huge international star that she long has deserved to be. What also is going to help in her...
Survey: Do you want escapist movies about terrorism right now?
No, terrorism isn't new, and words can't express how terrible it is that sometimes it feels more and more dangerous to be an innocent person in public in 2016. With...
‘Making a Murderer’ defense attorneys appearing June 3 at Chicago Theatre
Unless you are the one person who still hasn't watched the Netflix hit show, you definitely binge-watched "Making a Murderer," and you definitely had strong feelings about it. Because there's...
10 good things and 10 bad things at the Oscars
Overall, Sunday night's Oscars show actually was pretty good—at least in the sense that some deserving nominees actually won, including a Best Picture victory that make me extremely happy. Of...
Oscars monologue review: Chris Rock mostly focuses on race, and mostly nails it
Before the Oscars people wondered to what degree Chris Rock would discuss the #OscarsSoWhite issue, as if the comedian would do anything other than fearlessly address the most talked-about element...