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Tom Hardy’s double act can’t save ‘Venom: The Last Dance’

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 23, 2024 4:41 pm - For three films now, Tom Hardy has smushed Jekyll and Hyde into one strange and slimy double act. If “The Last Dance” is the swan song for this spun-off, half-formed franchise, it confirms that the “Venom” films never quite figured themselves out.
Highbrow drama: Smart, savvy Vatican thriller presciently parallels U.S. politics in ‘Conclave’

By Dann Gire
Oct 23, 2024 2:52 pm - If the Academy Awards ever created a special Oscar for “Best Performance by a Furrowed Brow,” Ralph Fiennes would handily win for his lively and versatile forehead wrinkles in Edward Berger’s elegantly staged, unpredictable and extremely timely drama “Conclave.”
A fairy tale gone sideways, ‘Anora’ is a wild ride

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 23, 2024 2:52 pm - Things are going a little too well in “Anora” until a call from Russia and a knock at the door changes the trajectory of the movie. This sequence, deeply stressful and riotously funny at the same time, is reason enough to see Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner.
Downers Grove church to show ‘The Philadelphia Eleven’ about the first 11 women priests

Submitted by Deacon Tara Osborne
Oct 22, 2024 8:08 pm - Women in many parts of the Christian church continue a struggle for full inclusion in the sacraments and leadership of the church, a struggle that some women started 50 years ago.
Tears for Fears returns with a concert film in suburban theaters Thursday

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 22, 2024 1:09 pm - When Tears for Fears hit the stage in Franklin, Tennessee, in July 2023, there were no tears but some fears. For the first time, a Tears for Fears concert was destined for the big screen. “Tears For Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film)” premieres in suburban theaters Thursday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 26.
Cate Blanchett wants you to laugh at politics in ‘Rumours’

By KAITLYN HUAMANI
Oct 21, 2024 2:52 pm - You’d be hard pressed to find a film weirder than “Rumours.” The biting commentary on the emptiness of political statements and the performances politicians put on starts off as a straight political satire focusing on the G7 world leaders, but then slips into a world of slow-yet-terrifying zombies and more.
‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box office

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 21, 2024 9:06 am - Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts this weekend. “Smile 2,” in its first weekend, and “Terrifier 3” in its second proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences.
What to stream: Bruce Springsteen doc, Halsey album, Billy Crystal on TV and the thriller ‘Trap’

Oct 21, 2024 5:30 am - The Boss shining in the documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” and Billy Crystal starring in a new series for Apple TV+ called “Before” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
For his biggest role yet, former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris is once again ‘the Black dude’

Helena Andrews-Dyer
Oct 18, 2024 10:29 am - It hit him at odd times. Former Glen Ellyn resident Lamorne Morris would be walking the set of “Saturday Night,” the frantic new comedy of errors about the inaugural episode of SNL, and shake his head. He often wondered: What am I doing here?
Lake Park film society to show the iconic psychological thriller ‘The Manchurian Candidate’

Submitted by Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society
Oct 17, 2024 7:54 pm - Fans have voted for this year's political themed film! Lake Park High School's Film Appreciation Society hosts its next screening on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

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