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A new Netflix film features a hurtling Japanese bullet train with a ticking bomb

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Apr 25, 2025 2:31 pm - The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premiered on Netflix Wednesday.
Got grief? David Cronenberg has an app for that in ‘The Shrouds.’

By Jen Yamato
Apr 25, 2025 11:09 am - We can expect a few constants from a David Cronenberg film. His latest “Cronenbergian” entry is “The Shrouds,” a cerebral thriller that certainly fits the morbid, bone-cracking bill.
So you saw ‘Conclave’ the movie. Here’s what it got right — and wrong — about real-life conclaves

By HOLLY MEYER
Apr 25, 2025 10:16 am - “Conclave” the film, a moody 2024 political thriller, introduced many laypeople to the ancient selection process of a new pope. While the film accurately portrays many rituals and contemporary problems facing today’s Catholic Church, Vatican experts warn the movie doesn’t get everything right.
An immersive, panoramic view coming soon to a theater near you in Addison

By Dave Oberhelman
Apr 24, 2025 5:29 pm - Marcus Addison Cinema will be the first movie theater in Illinois to offer the 270-degree SCREENX technology.
10 movies that defined the Vietnam War on the big screen

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 24, 2025 1:38 pm - The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking. These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance.
‘The Legend of Ochi’ a tactile, retro-coded fantasy

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 23, 2025 10:10 pm - “The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid.
Secret-lives drama ‘On Swift Horses’ trots when it should gallop

By Dann Gire
Apr 23, 2025 1:54 pm - Daniel Minahan’s sincere and sympathetic period drama “On Swift Horses” hosts a solid cast, richly composed cinematography, and highly detailed 1950s production designs. So why does its enticing beginning slowly succumb to narrative inertia during its second hour?
Film made by Hersey High librarian to hit Chicago Horror Film Fest

Submitted by Stephanie Imago
Apr 23, 2025 10:15 am - A librarian by day and filmmaker by night, Bruce Janu’s short horror film is heading to the Chicago Horror Film Festival next month.
‘The Accountant 2,’ with Ben Affleck, isn’t quite a write-off

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 23, 2025 7:44 am - On the heels of tax season comes “The Accountant 2,” Gavin O’Connor’s sequel to the 2016 film that did not, exactly, leave audiences clamoring for another. But in a movie world where anything successful immediately gets a second one, “The Accountant 2” has the benefit of not having much to live up to. Just balancing the books a little would count as a win.
The Oscars mandate voters watch all nominated movies

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 21, 2025 1:58 pm - The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday announced that members will from now on be required to watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round of Oscar voting.

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