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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.
What to stream: ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Brandi Carlile, Demi Lovato and ‘Nobody Wants This’

By The Associated Press
Oct 20, 2025 11:32 am - Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear fallout thriller “A House of Dynamite” and albums from Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Horror sequel ‘Black Phone 2’ dials up a No. 1 opening

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 19, 2025 3:54 pm - The horror sequel “Black Phone 2” topped the North American box office charts this weekend with $26.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Century-old ‘Phantom of the Opera’ to be shown with live organ Oct. 24

Submitted by Jeff Neufeld
Oct 16, 2025 3:00 pm - On Oct. 24, First Congregational Church of Elgin is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Lon Chaney’s 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera" with a special screening accompanied on the pipe organ.
Palatine High School graduates bring cinematic vision to Chicago film festival

By Steve Zalusky
Oct 16, 2025 2:10 pm - Two Palatine High School graduates are living their cinematic dream with the screening of their short film at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Rose Byrne goes deep and dark as an overburdened mom in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 16, 2025 11:20 am - One senses that Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by a brave and committed Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” would freely expand on the question of how moms juggle it all — if anyone cared. But Linda is nobody’s priority.
Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young describes ‘dirty work’ of civil rights movement in new documentary

By DAVID BAUDER
Oct 16, 2025 11:03 am - Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. Now 93, Young narrates “Andrew Young: The Dirty Work,” a documentary that premieres at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, on MSNBC.
Aziz Ansari’s film-directing debut, ‘Good Fortune,’ is a barrel of hollow laughs

By Sonia Rao
Oct 16, 2025 9:24 am - Written by and starring comedian Aziz Ansari, “Good Fortune” is also his debut as a film director. The fantasy comedy cleverly diagnoses some of society’s greatest faults. All the world is a farce, Ansari seems to say, while suggesting that it can still be saved. But his big-screen creation doesn’t feel the need to offer solutions.

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