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Best Bets: Hail and farewell to Schaumburg’s Laugh Out Loud

By Barbara Vitello
Apr 10, 2024 11:04 am - Laugh it up while you can as Schaumburg’s Laugh Out Loud Theater closes this weekend. Plus, pianist Wael Farouk returns to the MAC and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Chicago.
High Five: Baseball movies to watch in honor of the start of the season

By Kevin Schmit
Apr 10, 2024 6:00 am - Everyone has their own favorite baseball movies. Here’s one personal list for this week’s High Five.
Bug-a BOO! Fun, frights and feelings figure into a Charlotte’s web of terror in ‘Sting’

By Dann Gire
Apr 09, 2024 12:13 pm - Kiah Roache-Turner’s low-budget Australian creature feature “Sting” merges fun and thrills with a ton of kills in a breezy, cheesy salute to classic 1950s “it came from outer space” tales.
What to stream this week: Billy Joel sings, Dora explores and ‘Food, Inc. 2’ chows down

By The Associated Press
Apr 08, 2024 5:45 am - A Billy Joel concert special celebrating his residency at Madison Square Garden and Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal playing cowboys and former lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Godzilla x Kong’ maintains box-office dominion in second weekend

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 07, 2024 2:54 pm - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” easily swatted away a pair of challengers to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second week in a row, according to st...
How Dev Patel got ‘Monkey Man,’ his directorial debut beset by challenges, to the finish line

By LESLIE AMBRIZ and SIAN WATSON
Apr 07, 2024 11:26 am - “Faith can be such a beautiful, powerful thing. It can bring us together. At its best, it should make us fight for each other instead of fighting against each other,” says Dev Patel, who is making his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with the action thriller “Monkey Man.”
In ‘Girls State,’ Missouri teens start a mock government

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 04, 2024 1:28 pm - What would an all-female government look like in the U.S.? For the ambitious high school students in the Girls State program, given the spotlight in a new documentary arriving on Apple TV+ Friday, it’s something they can play at for at least a week.
Better than ‘Nun’: ‘Omen’ a watchable, sometimes silly political allegory

By Dann Gire
Apr 04, 2024 11:28 am - Aside from an adequate supply of gross commercial elements, the Catholic horror tale “The First Omen” issues an allegorical warning about our current political climate.
Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ is a political allegory bathed in blood

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 04, 2024 5:45 am - Has there been a more satisfying actor to watch mature on screen in recent years than Dev Patel? Bathed in blood and fury, “Monkey Man” is one gory coming out party for Patel, who also directed and co-wrote the film.
‘Wicked Little Letters’ achieves an all-time high of Low Comedy

By Dann Gire
Apr 03, 2024 10:56 am - Thea Sharrock’s bawdy “Wicked Little Letters,” starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, brilliantly tells the fact-based story of a friendship gone sour and an epidemic of poison-pen letters that became a public scandal in a quiet English village during the 1920s.

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