A sour mashup of exhausted action film and sentimental crud, “Red One” delivers one of the year’s most grating packages. Surprise!
‘Red One’ review: Santa smackdown is everything that’s wrong with Hollywood moviemaking. Merry Christmas.
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John Krasinski named People magazine’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive
Let the office debates begin — John Krasinski is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2024.
Top 10 holiday shows for 2024: ‘Christmas Carol’ and ‘Wonderful Life’ make room for ‘Frozen’ and ‘Die Hard’
Christmas tunes with Jane Lynch at Steppenwolf, anyone? Or “Frozen” in Aurora might just be the perfect holiday pick for families.
Column: Hollywood loves a scammer. But is there an appetite for a movie about a convicted cryptocurrency fraudster?
Lena Dunham is set to adapt Michael Lewis’s book “Going Infinite” about Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud. Yet another scammer story.
Review: ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ on Broadway finds surprising charm in a musical love story between robots
The appeal of this particular piece is in its sweet, quirky score and in how well it keeps its own rules about what these bots can and cannot do.
Chicago dance is at a crossroads as Links Hall fights for survival
Another longtime creative force, Chicago Moving Company, is shutting down. Chicago’s dance institutions have faced practical and existential questions in the two years since recovery from the pandemic began in earnest.
‘St. Denis Medical’ review: New NBC sitcom is ‘The Office,’ but in a hospital
“St. Denis Medical” follows the overworked, sometimes incompetent staff of a small regional hospital in Oregon. It might take some time for the sitcom mockumentary to find its own voice and point of view.
Column: An exhibition and a book revisit the life and death of Emmett Till
On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.”
Review: ‘A Wonderful World’ on Broadway tries to sum up the whole of Louis Armstrong
James Monroe Iglehart stars as Satchmo in a new jukebox musical about the jazz great. But in this story, sometimes there’s too much to tell.
Tinley Park resident helps support documentary about Dick Biondi, which premieres in Beverly
Tinley Park resident Jack Dreznes helped support a documentary on DJ Dick Biondi that premiers Thursday at the Beverly Arts Center.