“Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, significantly down from the alien symbiote franchise’s previous entries.
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Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at 84
Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84.
Review: Remy Bumppo’s ‘Dear Elizabeth’ fits a world of human connection between pages of letters
Sarah Ruhl’s enthralling play is about the decades-long friendship between the 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
‘Anora’ review: This improbable fairy tale is a ‘Pretty Woman’ for our time
As the Brooklyn sex worker who meets a guileless young Russian on the job, Mikey Madison is superb in writer-director Sean Baker’s latest.
What to do in Chicago: Usher, Will Ferrell with Swedish House Mafia and plenty to do for Halloween
Around town this weekend, Ben Schwartz at the Chicago Theatre and Manual Cinema’s distinctive take on “Frankenstein.”
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ review: The trilogy’s closer has its moments
The wildly successful Marvel series from Sony is a trio of comic book movies featuring Tom Hardy’s take on journalist Eddie Brock and his sassy symbiote sidekick.
Column: Where have all the TV theme songs gone?
“Matlock” creator Dean Hargrove and composer Mike Post (“Law & Order,” “Hill Street Blues”) weigh in on what we lose when TV theme songs are no longer parts of the show.
‘Conclave’ review: A deluxe Vatican mystery, with Ralph Fiennes monitoring a shifty-eyed flock of cardinals
Sleek, confident and peppered with delicious portraits in pursuit, deceit and evasion, the carnival of papal intrigue known as “Conclave” works like gangbusters. It’s the best recent Agatha Christie adaptation not based on an Agatha Christie mystery, because it’s from a book by Robert Harris. I describe it that way not to mess with logic […]
Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, ‘Milo Imagines the World’ has a young audience right there with him
Oh, the pleasures of watching a kid’s show accompanied by a school group. I was reminded at this musical how much I missed the experience.
Review: ‘Left on Tenth’ on Broadway is a simple story about late-in-life romance
As penned by Delia Ephron from her memoir, it stars Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher in a play that’s first about loss and grief.