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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ review: Amid the banging and Optimus Priming, a pretty zippy...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou know what’s not bad? “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” Dumber than a box of lug nuts, but...
Riffing on Rossini, Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’ started as a South Side Chicago comic opera. But its...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired ...
Find Out Where the 'School of Rock' Cast Is Today
Parade via Yahoo News· 9 months agoJack Black in 'School of Rock.' School of Rock is one of those movies that you can’t help but watch if you happen to catch it on TV some Saturday...
The English ending explained – did Cornelia get her revenge?
Digital Spy via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe English ending – did Cornelia get her revenge?Diego Lopez Calvin/Drama Republic/BBC/Amazon...
Review: ‘Plane,’ the tale of a plane that gets struck by lightning, crash-lands into an island of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the pitch meeting stage, “Plane” carried the title “The Plane,” and now it doesn’t. All excess cargo, even if it’s three letters — out the window! There’s too much to handle with this thing ...
More fireworks than Oppenheimer: How All About Eve stormed the Oscars
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAs the great, the good and the giddy gather for the 96th Oscar presentations this weekend, the...
How the FBI Worked With Hollywood to Build the Crime Genre’s Early Years In Film and TV
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMartin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest turn in a...
Opinion: A completely new take on ‘1984’
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAt a time when George Orwell’s ’1984’ feels more relevant than ever, Sandra Newman’s novel ‘Julia’ critiques Orwell’s misogyny in ‘1984’ while joining a...
James Bond's creator lived a life to rival the spy's
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His ...
Best Chicago theater of 2023: From ‘Tommy’ to a soul opera, our top 10 shows chosen from many
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 months agoArtistic excellence abounded in Chicago theater even as 2023 proved fiscally and structurally challenging for many companies and artists. Here’s my annual top-10 list of the year, along with ...