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Movie review: Film adaptation of ‘Klara and the Sun’ lacks novel’s poignancy

By Moira Macdonald | The Seattle Times
Oct 22, 2026 11:57 am - Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling 2021 novel “Klara and the Sun” is a gentle, lovely book, and it needed to come to screen with the lightest of touches. Unfortunately, the new version directed by Taika Waititi never quite finds that delicacy.
Movie review: In ‘Wildwood,’ tons of stop-start work build a world the story can’t match

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 22, 2026 8:36 am - Everything about “Wildwood” is ambitious. It's a stop-motion animated movie that stretches over two hours, with 230 hand-controlled puppets across 132 sets, shot frame by frame by frame by frame. It sounds exhausting to make and that’s also sometimes what it feels like to watch it.
Movie review: ‘Wicker’ weaves a feisty feminist fable

By Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service
Oct 22, 2026 8:20 am - Alexander Skarsgård, always up for any kind of particularly sexy challenge, plays the titular husband in “Wicker,” woven by a skilled Basket Maker (Peter Dinklage), at the behest of a lonely Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman), who lives in a terribly strange little village in a sort of vaguely medieval era.
Movie review: ‘Clayface’ a doomed romance with body horror trappings

By Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service
Oct 21, 2026 3:08 pm - In order to find the best comparison to “Clayface” — the new Warner Bros. DC Universe installment — we have to go back to 1990, to Sam Raimi’s “Darkman,” starring Liam Neeson. Both films are about men who are attacked by mobsters and brutally disfigured. They both engage in risky treatment in hopes of recovering, but embark on quests of vengeance that turn them into monsters.
Alley Art Fest hosts free screening of horror classic ‘Carrie’ at The Venue

Submitted by Marissa Amoni
Oct 20, 2026 5:29 pm - On Oct. 25, The Venue in Aurora and the Alley Art Festival are hosting a free screening of Stephen King’s “Carrie.” Come in costume, and enjoy candy and popcorn.
Elgin’s oldest church goes Gothic for Halloween with ‘Nosferatu’ screening by acclaimed organist

By Jeff Neufeld, First Congregational
Oct 19, 2026 10:25 am - On Oct. 23, First Congregational Church of Elgin will show the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu" with organist Ben Model performing live accompaniment on the church's historic pipe organ. The classic German Expressionist film tells the story of Count Orlok, a vampire who brings plague to a German town before being destroyed by sunlight.
Box office: Elizabeth Holmes movie ‘You Can See Everything’ is now a hit in theaters too

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 19, 2026 6:44 am - While Paramount’s “Street Fighter” took the first-place spot, earning $31 million from 3,575 theaters according to studio estimates on Sunday, most of the attention and cultural discourse was elsewhere: On the nearly three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary, “You Can See Everything.”
What to stream: ‘Moana,’ ‘Modern Warfare 4,’ Dolly Parton tribute, ‘Lupin’ and John Legend

By The Associated Press
Oct 19, 2026 5:15 am - A new album from John Legend and the streaming debut of the live-action “Moana” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Can DC blend horror with a superhero movie? ‘Clayface’ wants to blur genres.

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 17, 2026 9:50 am - “Clayface” is a darker detour for DC. And, if it proves successful, it just might open up a darker frontier for comic book movies.
Movie shot last year in downtown Naperville to be shown at two film festivals

By Carolyn Stein | cstein@chicagotribune.com | Naperville Sun
Oct 16, 2026 10:48 am - An indie feature film that was shot in Naperville last year will make its world premiere Oct. 23-24 at the Naples International Film Festival in Naples, Florida.

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