Due to print availability issues, Doc Film's scheduled screening of The Go-Between on Sunday has been replaced with Secret Ceremony. more ›

We’ve been hearing a lot about Andrew Bird lately in anticipation of his new album release in a few weeks (March 6 to be exact), and now he is in the midst of taking another medium by storm: film. more ›

Receiving two Academy Awards nominations last week seems to have put some wind in the sails of arguably the past year, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation: the best film out right now will be around for a few more weeks. more ›

Accepting an award from the Chicago Film Critics Association, Jason Segal reminds us that awards speeches are often more memorable than who won what. more ›

The DNA of Robert Bresson's 13 films can be found in the mitochondria of practically every European director of the past four decades and, thanks to vectors such as Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch, nestled in the guts of U.S. filmmakers far and wide. more ›

A round trip to "Madchester" can be had this Thursday night, as Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot bring Sound Opinions at the Movies back to the Music Box. more ›

The underground, radical feminist, and still-invigorating Born in Flames should be required viewing for anybody suggesting that any single political event, be it an election or a revolution, is the answer to all our problems. more ›

Judging by 2011's box office, it was a terrible year for movies. Just because theater chains and studios had a bad year doesn't mean you have to. Get the most out of film in 2012. more ›

The Northwest Chicago Film Society and portoluz will screen the 1941 Preston Sturges Depression-era screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Portage Theater in a newly restored 35 mm print from Universal Pictures. more ›

Let's be honest: there is a lot that can go wrong on New Year's Eve. You can be stuck at a terrible party. You can be stuck at an amazing party, but be the designated driver. You can find yourself at a party which seems so much like previous year's party that only the festive paraphernalia marked "2012" clue you in that this is déjà vu and not Groundhog Day. So we won't second guess you at all if you decide to ring in the new year watching other people endure a New Year's Eve where everything that could go wrong literally does, which is to say watching The Poseidon Adventure at the Music Box. more ›

My favorite movies are the ones that give me new eyes. I mean the ones where, if only for a few minutes, the world I encounter when I leave the theater seems different from the one left to go in. This feeling of heightened awareness to the textures of the world, of its variety of soundtrack, at the great fortune we are all sharing it together, is like a drug. more ›

In Part 1, Rob recounts the best films he watched this year--which includes several from years gone by. more ›

As far as we can tell, out of about 200 celebrities immortalized in the cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 13 were born in these parts. more ›

Pity the careless moviegoer who sees "Santa" on the Portage Theater marquee this Saturday and somehow finds his or herself in the aisles as the the first images of Santa Sangre flash onto the screen. Awakenings probably do not come much ruder. more ›

Tickets to Wingfest are now on sale. A reminder that Andy Warhol's "Empire" will be projected onto Aon Tower tonight. more ›

They were a perfect couple. Intelligent, cool, sophisticated, romantic, bringing the party with them wherever they went, never taking themselves too seriously, and (almost by accident) solving crimes. The husband and wife team portrayed by Myrna Loy and William Powell in 1934's The Thin Man endures as one our favorite cinematic creations. Nick (played by Powell) is a sometime-detective who pleasantly idles away his early retirement with his wealthy firecracker of a wife, Nora (Loy). Tapping on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cocktails and wit, the two flirt and tease their way through any situation with aplomb, watched over by their wire-haired fox terrier Asta. It cannot be denied: when we grow up, we want to be Nick and Nora Charles. more ›

Give the most banal moving image enough time, and it will become fascinating. Just offering a peek into a long-lost world is enough to hold our interest, which is why we were excited to see that the Chicago Film Archives is joining the collections of moving images at the Internet Archive, where they can be either streamed or downloaded and where they are sure to find a wider audience. more ›

Andy Warhol's film Empire will be projected on the side of the Aon Building this Friday night. more ›

From high-profile releases to film sales to schlock, we've got you covered. more ›

If you dig movies with super corny dialog, exquisitely bad acting, sub-par special effects and sets that fall over as actors move through the scenery, then boy do we have the film festival for you. more ›

Much like a business motto, a tagline is a short, catchy phrase used by studios to sell feature-length films. more ›

Proper Thanksgiving movies may be few and far between, but that doesn't mean that Hollywood doesn't provide us with some notions on how to get through its signature event: the large family meal. more ›

Prescreen tries to carve out a niche for the movie-hungry and tech-savvy in that overlapping part of a Venn diagram including social networks and daily deal sites. more ›

The Music Box is the only place in the Country where audiences can enjoy this classic's in its sparkling, rejuvenated form. With a week-long run starting today and multiple showings each day, Raiders will surely make a good cinematic excursion for the holiday week. more ›

Movie trailers can be an enjoyable appetizer before the main feature, an infuriating obstacle when you pop in a Blu-ray or a montage of spoilers in the shape of an advertisement. They can also be just plain inexplicable. Last month we were reminded at how deceptive movie trailers can be when a woman filed a lawsuit because the Drive trailer misled her into expecting more of a Vin Diesel action spectacle. more ›

We have a special code for you for tickets to this weekend's Chicago Food Film Fest. more ›

Here's a festival that combines two of our favorite hobbies: bicycling and film. more ›

Next Sunday, the Northwest Chicago Film Society presents an evening of 16mm film liberated from Midwestern television stations showcasing some amazing artifacts of this period. more ›

The Portage Theater screens Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage tonight. more ›

A Michigan woman sued FilmDistrict and Emagine Theaters in Novi, MI earlier this month, claiming she suffered "damages" from viewing Drive and that the film's trailer was misleading. We can't imagine how. more ›