Movies
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ wins Best Picture at Chicago Film Critics awardsDec 15, 2023 3:42 pm - The CFCA named “Killers of the Flower Moon” Best Picture of 2023 Tuesday night.
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AP names its 2023 class of Breakthrough EntertainersDec 15, 2023 3:09 pm - In this year of big entertainment, there are five streaking stars making their mark.
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Timothée Chalamet waltzes through whimsical 'Wonka' but Roald Dahl's daring is missingDec 13, 2023 5:14 pm - “Wonka” -- 2.5 stars The original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops....
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Heart of Stone: Courageous Emma rocks trippy, surrealistic coming-of-age feminist fantasyDec 12, 2023 4:11 pm - “Poor Things” -- 4 stars I have not witnessed a motion picture this robustly imaginative, this ferociously sexual, this optically explosive and this politically inc...
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What to stream this week: Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour,' a Cody Johnson TV special and 'Reacher' returns
Dec 11, 2023 5:00 am - The second season of Prime Video's "Reacher" starring Alan Ritchson and the stop-motion animation flick "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget" are some of the new television,...
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'Barbie' leads Golden Globe nominations with 9, followed closely by 'Oppenheimer'
Dec 11, 2023 12:00 am - Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting...
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Sara Bareilles dons her apron once more with 'Waitress' live-capture film
Dec 08, 2023 4:00 am - NEW YORK - She was an admired pop star with a voice like butter. But writing a musical about a woman who bakes pies? When Sara Bareilles was approached more than a decad...
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Wonderful novel about an 'invisible' young woman becomes the oddball film 'Eileen'
Dec 07, 2023 5:00 am - “Eileen” — ★ ★ Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don't just mean the plot of “Eileen.” The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's delicious...
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Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' is a master surveying his empire
Dec 07, 2023 4:00 am - “The Boy and the Heron” — ★ ★ ★ ½ When Hayao Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, filmmaker Guiller...
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'Fallen Leaves' is deadpan nirvana
Dec 06, 2023 10:00 pm - “Fallen Leaves” — ★ ★ ★ ★ In a movie year rife with grand, three-hour opuses from auteur filmmakers comes a slender 81-minute gem that outclasses them all. Aki Kaur...