Movies
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'Wild Things' faithfully adapts classic children's storyOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - The problem with filmmakers taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film is that they're taking an extremely short childre...
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Documentary focuses on classic ballparksOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - "America's Classic Ballparks: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition" With the baseball playoffs in full swing and the World Series right around the corner, this terrific...
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Borgnine in Naperville for double featureOct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Ernest Borgnine won the Oscar for playing the lead character in 1956's "Marty," but people remember him mostly as the cop married to Stella Stevens in the pivotal 1972 d...
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Sendak: 'Wild Things' adaptation 'spectacular'
Oct 12, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- About the hoopla surrounding the film adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak is characteristically gruff. "I kind of want it over," he sai...
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'Couples Retreat' tops box office with $35.3 mil
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Director: Another 'X-Men' movie sounds interesting
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'Couples' a marriage of the inane and the triteOct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Hollywood must really have it in for Buffalo Grove. How else to explain why the Northwest suburb has been used as the setting for two inane and intelligence-abusing roma...
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Pardon the trailer trashing, but a commercial before a commercial?Oct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - So where's the outrage? OK, outrage may be a little strong, but come on people. Look what's happening. I recently went online and called up a theatrical trailer to the n...
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Burns new documentary a tribute to national park systemOct 06, 2009 11:00 pm - "Ken Burns: National Parks - America's Best Idea" - Ken Burns' great documentary has been playing on PBS, but if you've missed it, here comes this six-disc set. It t...
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Suburban filmmaker realizes his (scary) dreamOct 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Hawthorn Woods filmmaker and horror buff Marc Selz might not enjoy the name recognition that John Carpenter and Wes Craven have, but his work ranks with theirs in one ke...