Category: Movies

There’ll be more than one story to write about “Sundance Institute x Chicago,” coming to town June 28-30. Consider these to be some preliminary questions to be answered in a couple of months. A sort of pop-up import, sponsored by the Chicago Film Office and Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism bureau, “Sundance Institute x Chicago” is the power of branding incarnate. The event will consist of a modest four-screening package of titles that premiered in January at the annual Sundance Film Festival of Park City, Utah fame. The off-screen activity’s the apparent bigger deal: panels, discussions, filmmaker-centric meetups, patterned after […]

With Zendaya playing a ferociously competitive tennis coach, torn between two lobbers, the super-ripe romantic drama “Challengers” delivers.

In 1992 Chicago, near the end of the Cabrini-Green housing projects, two boys navigate a world changing fast in Minhal Baig’s beguiling film.

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay play yearning, reincarnated lovers across three eras. MacKay is good; Seydoux excels.

The hazards of remaking a beloved film are well known. While the 1991 comedy original starring Christina Applegate didn’t exactly thrill critics 30 years ago, it’s become a cult classic.

In this tradition, Japanese narrators and musicians transform the silent movie experience. A tour is coming to Chicago’s Siskel Center.