Mitzi Gaynor, who died Oct. 17 in Los Angeles, put the “viva! in “vivacious.” May she rest in peace, and in dazzle, and in razzle.
Mitzi Gaynor’s interview (‘Hi, darling! It’s Mitzi!’) with the Tribune in 2013
Category: Movies
Column: Everyone’s piling on ‘Megalopolis’ and ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’ They’re not the flops I worry about.
Set aside for a moment what movies have made or lost money so far in 2024. Some big-budget sequels like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” did well at the box office but were failures in my book.
‘Smile 2’ review: A pop star’s lot is not a happy one
This sequel goes in a newish direction. This time, the anguished center of the narrative is a musician about to launch a massive world tour.
‘Terrifier 3’ slashes ‘Joker’ to take No. 1 at the box office, Trump film ‘The Apprentice’ fizzles
“Terrifier 3,” a gory, low-budget slasher from the small distributor Cineverse, topped the weekend box office with $18.3 million.
‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ review: A moving story of an actor’s heroism, onscreen and off
His spinal cord injury brought on the toughest role of his life. This occasionally slick but genuinely moving new documentary was made with the cooperation of Reeve’s family.
Plotting his future in film: Columbia College student from Monterrey, Mexico, is sharing his short stories one film festival at a time
Carlos Lerma is finding success at film festivals locally and nationally, while helping plan the Chicago International Film Festival, which starts Wednesday.
‘Piece by Piece’ review: Pharrell Williams’ life gets Lego treatment in lively biopic
Williams is worthy of the outside-the-box treatment, as his innovative productions have helped redefine hip hop and stretched the genre’s boundaries.
Column: Encouraging signs for the 2024 Chicago International Film Festival — and 10 movies to get you started
The more uncertainty the business of film must weather, the more necessary a city’s film festivals become. To me, anyway. Maybe not to you, at least not yet, or not anymore. You may have eased out of the habit of moviegoing sometime around March 2020 and made your peace and your pandemic adjustment with streaming. […]
Review: ‘The Apprentice’ has Sebastian Stan as a young Trump on the rise, mentored by Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn
Is it just my imagination, or is “The Apprentice” a pretty interesting movie? Less than a month before a U.S. presidential election, you’d expect an 11th-hour Trump biopic (which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival) to settle for cheap smears and a bunch of propaganda. Such stuff is hardly restricted to the […]
Gary International Black Film Festival returns for its 14th year
When Karen Toering started a local film festival, she never expected it to be as successful as it is now. “It just blew us away,” said Toering, founder and director of the Gary International Black Festival. “The first year, and almost every year since, there’s a filmmaker that comes to the festival and ends up doing great things. The Gary International Black Film Festival returns to Indiana University Northwest Thursday through Sunday and features more than 50 films. The festival celebrates Black filmmakers and aims to enhance Gary’s cultural community, Toering said. People can watch films in-person or online. Tickets […]