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‘Blink Twice’ is a stylish but strained thriller

By Ty Burr
Aug 22, 2024 5:30 am - Without giving away too much, the act of forgetting serves as a major plot pivot in “Blink Twice.” Ironically, that’s what Zoë Kravitz’s debut as a writer-director requires of an audience.
In ‘Between the Temples,’ Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane make beautiful music

By JAKE COYLE
Aug 22, 2024 5:30 am - In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving canter who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship with a much older widow (Carol Kane) seeking her bat mitzvah.
The Mustang Summit heads to Woodstock’s Soulful Prairies Aug. 25

Submitted by EQUUS Film Festival
Aug 21, 2024 10:25 am - The Mustang Summit is galloping into the Soulful Prairies sanctuary and healing center in Woodstock on Sunday, Aug. 25, as part of the initiative to expand mustang education to the horse-loving general public.
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane forge an unlikely friendship in ‘Between the Temples’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Aug 21, 2024 6:30 am - Carol Kane’s name came to filmmaker Nathan Silver in a fever dream. “Everyone was like, ‘of course it’s her,’” Silver said of who should play opposite Jason Schwartzman in the new movie “Between the Temples.”
‘Alien: Romulus’ bites off $41.5 million to top box office charts

By LINDSEY BAHR and KAITLYN HUAMANI
Aug 19, 2024 6:54 am - “Alien: Romulus,” the latest installment in the 45-year-old franchise, opened in first place at the North American box office. The 20th Century Studios release earned an estimated $41.5 million in its first weekend.
What to stream: ‘Furiosa’ fights, John Woo revisits ‘The Killer’ and Adam Sandler yucks it up

Aug 19, 2024 5:30 am - George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and Kevin Costner’s Western “Horizon: An American Saga” as well as John Woo revisiting his 1989 Hong Kong-set action movie “The Killer” are some of the new films headed to a device near you.
Fan Expo Chicago showcases comics and pop culture

By Joe Lewnard
Aug 17, 2024 5:02 pm - Comic and pop culture fans, many portraying a multitude of characters, packed the exhibition hall to obtain celebrity autographs, visit with comic artists and purchase me...
Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry lead a middling spy comedy in ‘The Union’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Aug 15, 2024 12:53 pm - “The Union,” an action comedy released Friday starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. But it’s lacking a certain charm that could help it be something more than the Netflix movie playing in the background.
Racing pacing, wince-inducing finale diminish flourishes of cinematic greatness in ‘Alien: Romulus’

By Dann Gire
Aug 15, 2024 8:42 am - An undisciplined, maddening, exhilarating grab-bag of goop, greatness and grateness, Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” should have qualified as the second-best sequel in the nine-feature “Alien” franchise, film critic Dann Gire says.
‘Jackpot!’ has a winning star in Awkwafina but never pays off

By JAKE COYLE
Aug 15, 2024 6:27 am - Finally, a movie for everyone who read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and wished it had been a comedy. Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is a farcical twist on an old story that will surely sound familiar to those who enjoyed “The Purge” and its sequels.

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