We're among the happiest people to learn that CIMMFest and former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael Phillips has a new monthly program called Shock Theater at the Wicker Park Arts Center. more ›

Chicago is getting its first D-Box equipped cinema this weekend, as the Muvico Rosemont 18 joins the ranks of technologically advanced locales such as South Jordan, Utah and the Mall of America on the forefront of movie exhibition gimmickry. For a mere $8 surcharge per ticket, you can watch Fast Five in one of the 36 D-Box seats (certainly never to be confused with "the d-bag seats"), which will lurch, shake, pitch, and heave you into entertainment bliss according to a precise set of cues felt by a Burbank, California-based team of motion designers to most enhance your enjoyment of Justin Lin's orgy of car chases and gunplay. more ›

Need more evidence that wintertime in these parts is enough to make Chicagoans feel homicidal? Here you go: our city has two festivals of horror movies occurring more or less simultaneously. Horrorfest III runs at Piper's Alley through Wednesday, and next weekend the Horror Society presents B-Movie Madness at the Portage Theater. The lineup boasts four horror flicks that definitely fall on the wacky, schlocky end of the spectrum. more ›