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‘Futurama’ review: The animated comedy will not be quashed! It’s back for Season 11 on a new home: Hulu

Too many live-action TV comedies these days aren’t even really comedies. Animated TV comedies are where you'll find gags upon gags.

My worst moment: ‘Swagger’ star Orlando Jones on being unceremoniously dumped from a show

“It was odd because I did my job to the best of my ability, and everybody said it was incredible — but that wasn’t good enough."

Tony Bennett appreciation: Decade after decade, he left his heart in every fan’s memories

Tony Bennett toured all the way into his 90s. He went public with his Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2021. Music, his third wife said, kept him as present in his life as humanly possible.

Column: What’s next for the beloved Pickwick Theatre — and what they shouldn’t ignore (hint: it’s the movies)

The Pickwick Theatre is something more than a symbol of the past, or a nostalgia novelty for Park Ridge. The venue may be unfashionably scaled, and a little ungainly. But it’s special.

‘Minx’ review: In Season 2, the perils of success from a feminist mag with male centerfolds

No longer a start-up story, this year the show examines the moral compromises of a feminist magazine featuring male nudes centerfolds.

10 movies for summer 2023: From ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Barbie’ to some smaller gems

The summer '23 movies may rely on a slew of name brands--from Indy to missions: impossible--but if a film as lovely and near-perfect as Celine Song’s debut feature “Past Lives” also qualifies as a summer picture, then summer looks pretty good to me.

‘Oppenheimer’ review: Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy dissect the tortured conscience behind our atomic age

A filmmaker cannot treat the sight, and the fallout, of the dawn of our catastrophic nuclear age as mere spectacle. Well, they can. But it’d be a mistake. This movie isn't perfect but it's Nolan's gravest achievement.

Column: The actors strike and the dystopian potential of AI, now on screen

What if studios hope to own and profit from a person’s image and likeness for the rest of eternity?

‘Barbie’ review: A doll’s life is richly, unexpectedly imagined by Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie

Director Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" has lots going on, a lot of it terrifically imaginative.

Column: Chicago mainstay Amy Morton on the actors’ strike: ‘We’re mad. And we’re fed up.’

"In the old days, around contract negotiation time, at least the actors were paid lip service.'”

My worst moment: When ‘Justified: City Primeval’ star Aunjanue Ellis saw Sean Combs walk out during her monologue

Aunjanue Ellis was on Broadway but never felt good about her career in theater — and finally realized she wasn't cut out for the stage.

‘Theater Camp’ review: Hello muddah, hello faddah, camp is pretty entertaining

This one stretches itself a little thin, for reasons more to do with wit than plot. But those feeling a little roughed up by “No Hard Feelings” this summer now have a PG-13 comedy option.

Column: Hollywood actors are on strike — here’s what you need to know

A strike means no TV or film work from actors for the foreseeable future. But also no promotional appearances and interviews.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ — his provocative 1963 movie about a marriage — screens in a 4k restoration at Siskel Center

It remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago.

‘Project Greenlight’ review: In Season 5, Issa Rae and friends take over for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Past seasons resulted in unwatchable movies and careers that never flourished. Maybe that’s why "Project Greenlight" has been moribund for nearly a decade.

Siskel Film Center executive director Emily Long: ‘How do we overcome the convenience that exists on the couch?’

Gene Siskel Film Center executive director Emily Long: "When we all quarantined, I think a lot of us realized the value of shared cultural experience."

‘Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake’ review: Two ‘Real Housewives of New York’ are dropped into small town Illinois

Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan, the Frick and Frack of Bravolebrities, star in this "The Simple Life" meets "Schitt's Creek" ripoff.

‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ review: I choose to accept the year’s most satisfying action movie

"Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" is the one franchise action blowout this year that knows what it's doing.

My worst moment: ‘The Bear’ star Liza Colón-Zayas and the bloody stage mishap

Sometimes on stage actors momentarily lose place of where they are in the story. Here's what happens when you're covered in blood.

‘Revoir Paris’ review: After a terrorist attack, a survivor searches for closure but the movie stays on the surface

In "Revoir Paris" Virginie Efira is as economical and effective as ever. But the movie uses tragic events for its protagonist’s personal growth and well-being dubiously.

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