Chicago Film Office Director Richard Moskal confirmed with Crain's that filming on the Zack Snyder-directed Superman film will begin in Chicago August 7. more ›

More than a few blockbuster movies that have been filmed in Chicago. Last summer, Transformers invaded the Loop, but the new Superman movie will stay largely in the burbs when filming starts later this summer in and around the Chicago area. more ›

Let's all channel our inner grandfather and take a look at the still-functioning website for Space Jam. It's still as it was in 1996, when AOL, Geocities and 28.8 dial-up was king. We're still trying to see if the site accepts Prodigy keywords, though. more ›

Chicagoist has a new fun game. It’s called “get people all riled up”. All we do is sit down over a beer, coffee or fifteen Jamison shots and say the two most electrified words in the English language, “The Secret”. It's way fun to watch proponents of “The Secret” battle it out with the militant disbelievers and just sit back and let ‘er rip. more ›

Apparently, size doesn’t matter…when it comes to music and movies. Though Oscar nominations won’t be announced until the end of the month, the Tribune’s Mark Caro is already proclaiming this the biggest year for indie films “since four of the five 1996 best picture nominees were non-studio offerings.” But what is indie anymore? The examples cited by Caro include Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, and Capote, which are all films that come from... more ›