Browsing: Weekend

Chicago will host its first-ever “Cinema Weekend” celebrating independent and local film and the art house venues that screen such movies, organizers announced Monday.

Directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known collectively as Los Javis on the set of La Bola Negra. Carla Oset/Netflixhide caption

Penn Alumni hosted its triennial weekend of programming to celebrate careers in the arts and media. 

There are much worse movies to not screen for critics than Other Mommy. Universal may have done the film a disservice in planting the seed of disaster into their minds, because between that and Rob Savage’s promise of “50 jump scares,” some reviews just write themselves. As a critic myself, to say I disagree with…

There was a winner at the box office this weekend and its top-of-the-line star is capping off one helluva year. But it is not the film getting the headlines this weekend, as more attention is being focused on the loser. It’s one for the ages, we must say. Maybe that’s why the star of that…

It took a pair of witches and the brew of nostalgia to finally knock Spider-Man out of his six-week run at the top of the box office. And to the top of the box office it actually goes, which is the big story this weekend. But it is not the only film to break a…

Piers McGrail is an IFTA-winning Irish cinematographer whose work spans film and television, with credits including Calm With Horses, Ordinary Loveand It Is In Us All, for which he won the IFTA for Best Cinematography.

Spider-Man made more money. Ho-hum. That was kind of the attitude behind the headlines this week in box office news as all eyes were on the unbelievable backstory of Coyote vs. Acme and how wonderful it was finally getting its day in theaters. The company that rescued it set a new record for themselves (not…

This year’s summer box office has already well passed last year’s. After this weekend, it has surpassed $4 billion, passing the 2023 “Barbenheimer” year ($4.039 billion), and August just started. Thanks to Spider-Man, The Odyssey, Toy Story 5, and many other successes, the 2026 summer box office is going to be comparable to the pre-pandemic…