My worst moment: Patricia Arquette, the temporary hair dye and a sweaty audition"It was like ‘Carrie’ but it was hair dye instead of pig’s blood," Patricia Arquette said, describing a memorably cringey audition. June 06, 2023
New adventures in 70mm at the Music Box? Yep! And ‘Nope.’ And ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Oppenheimer.’Next month's Music Box Theatre "Adventures in 70MM" will offer "the finest quality you can get with a projected image, in terms of light, and color, and sharpness," says technical director Julian Antos. "The depth of the image has this wonderful texture and weight to it." June 05, 2023
Young Chicago filmmakers get a trip to Cannes Film Festival with Chaz EbertIsis Gullette, Unique Moore and Christal Westmoreland are CHA residents that have been studying filmmaking at DePaul's "Become a Filmmaker" program for years. This Memorial Day weekend they came back from their first Cannes Film Festival experience thanks to Chaz Ebert. June 02, 2023
‘Joe Pickett’ Season 2 review: A rustic wasteland of murder that benefits from the long tail of ‘Yellowstone’s’ popularityThe new season of the Paramount+ series starring Michael Dornan as a Wyoming game warden is perfectly fine, a tick-above-mediocre TV viewing. June 01, 2023
‘Burn It Down’ author Maureen Ryan has a suggestion for the Hollywood power structure. It’s right there in the title."Burn It Down" author Maureen Ryan: “Opportunities to paint on the big canvases and scream at the little people are not distributed equally.” June 01, 2023
‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 finale: What a long, strange, uneventful season it’s beenThe Apple TV+ series starring Jason Sudeikis says goodbye after three seasons, hinting at how it might reboot without Sudeikis. May 31, 2023
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ review: Embracing all the right comic book traditions in a dazzling sequelIt’s like reading a dozen different Spidey comic books, in between glugs of Mountain Dew and Dots. May 31, 2023
My worst moment: William Fichtner didn’t know how to ride a horse. Then he was asked to do a horse-riding stunt.A moving train. An open door. And a horse galloping outside with an empty saddle William Fichtner was meant to jump onto and ride away. May 30, 2023
Column: ‘Succession’ series finale: The Roys’ desires and anxieties always outweighed critiques of their influencePour one out for the Roy siblings, who take their leave of the TV landscape as unhappy and misguided as they were when “Succession” premiered on HBO in 2018. May 29, 2023
‘You Hurt My Feelings’ review: Can a marriage survive an overheard insult? Julia Louis-Dreyfus answers that in a deft new comedyJulia Louis-Dreyfus’ unerring comic-dramatic inflections really are the best in the business. She's the linchpin of "You Hurt My Feelings." May 26, 2023
‘The Little Mermaid’ review: Compared with the average live-action Disney cash grab, this one’s actually worth your cash"The Little Mermaid" is a lot less suffocating and a lot better than the (below) average Disney IP recycling job. May 25, 2023
‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ review: Who can turn the world on with her smile?Mary Tyler Moore was pioneering and funny. But woe to the person who underestimated her steely intelligence. May 25, 2023
Netflix to charge $8 per shared account in USTo combat password sharing, Netflix said it will limit U.S. viewership of its programming to people living in the same household. May 23, 2023
Column: Why has the HBO name disappeared from the HBO Max streaming platform?Warner Bros. Discovery is betting we’ll keep watching (and paying) regardless of what the app is called. They’re probably right. May 23, 2023
My worst moment: ‘Ted Lasso’ star Jeremy Swift missed his cue for a nude entranceThe cringiest moments in an actor’s career, said "Ted Lasso" star Jeremy Swift, “are the things that happen in live theater.” May 23, 2023
‘SmartLess: On the Road’ review: Three men and a podcast — Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on tourThe docuseries doesn't encourage the trio shed their veneer so much as document their first-class travels and conversational jabs. May 22, 2023
‘White Men Can’t Jump’ review: Hustling and hoop dreams, remadeHollywood loves a reboot. Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow play a pair of streetballers in need of fast cash. And so the hustle begins. May 19, 2023
‘Wakanda Forever’ to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ in this summer’s Millennium Park Film SeriesThe 2023 series kicks off in July and runs through the recent Academy Award winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in August. May 19, 2023
‘It Ain’t Over’ review: The wit, heart and soul of Yogi Berra, baseball giantBaseball legend Lawrence “Yogi” Berra (1925-2015) had a genius for phrasemaking, which had a nagging tendency to outshine his considerable baseball skills. May 19, 2023
TV for summer 2023: Despite the Hollywood writers strike, the season continues with new premieres. Our list of 15. A mix of new and returning shows, here’s a look at what’s on tap in the first few weeks of summer 2023. May 18, 2023