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M. Night Shyamalan’s latest plot twist? Teaming with Nicholas Sparks on a novel and upcoming film

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Oct 24, 2025 7:32 am - Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan found an interesting opportunity to collaborate on a new supernatural romance novel called “Remain” with Nicholas Sparks. Yes, that Nicholas Sparks — king of romantic dramas.
Some tragedy, some romance, and a regretful helping of corn in ‘Regretting You’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 23, 2025 6:15 am - Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You,” a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the tears give way to smiles, quips and then full-on rom-com corniness feels a little awkward — and then just weird and annoying.
Guillermo del Toro builds a handsome, grand ‘Frankenstein’ that is all his own

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 23, 2025 6:00 am - Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. His version of “Frankenstein” is a story about stories, about fathers and sons, innocents and monsters, and the madness of creation.
‘Bugonia’ is a darkly comic gut punch

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 23, 2025 5:30 am - The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His latest, “Bugonia,” starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, is thrillingly, if tragically, tied to our reality. It might even be his best film.
Josh O’Connor plays an artless thief in the artful ‘Mastermind’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - Not far into Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” a very different kind of art heist film starring Josh O’Connor, the title’s irony becomes painfully clear. This onetime art student, now a family man and unemployed carpenter, is the furthest thing from a mastermind.
‘Blue Moon’ is a poignant, funny valentine, and Ethan Hawke has never been better

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” about lyricist Lorenz Hart as portrayed by Ethan Hawke, is a joyous celebration of a brilliant, stubbornly uncompromising creative visionary and a grand time at the movies.
Jeremy Allen White is a tortured Boss in ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - The first authorized biopic of his life — “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — delves deep into the inner turmoil The Boss was dealing with during the recording of “Nebraska,” with the soulful Jeremy Allen White giving an endearing, humbling portrait of the icon.
Best Bets: Halloween events, Frank Caliendo at Paramount, Ailey II at The MAC

By Barbara Vitello
Oct 22, 2025 8:10 am - It’s a jam-packed weekend, with Howlin’ at the Moon in Naperville, master impressionist and comedian Frank Caliendo at the Paramount, Sons of the Never Wrong in Evanston and Ailey II at The Mac.
Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss are on fire in Nia DaCosta’s ‘Hedda’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 21, 2025 9:52 am - Hedda Gabler, one of the theater’s great schemers, is transported to 1950s England in Nia DaCosta’s deliriously fun, intelligent and impassioned spin on the classic Henrik Ibsen drama.
Lights, camera, construction: Cinergy Cinemas gets Wheeling grant

By Russell Lissau
Oct 20, 2025 7:40 pm - Wheeling’s Cinergy Cinemas will receive a $91,300 grant from the village to help pay for building improvements.

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