Spoilers ahead for Dark Matter Season 2, Episode 8, “The Basic Oneness of Everything.” After weeks of chasing alternate worlds, dead brothers, fractured marriages and incre...
One of the most interesting ideas running through Dark Matter is that identity is shaped as much by circumstance as by character. The Jasons are the clearest example.
They m...
Calvin’s is reopening for business. Prime Video has set Feb. 10, 2027, as the premiere date for Barbershop, the new comedy series inspired by the film franchise. All eight ep...
Prime Video is keeping Frances Neagley on the case. The Reacher spinoff Neagley, starring Maria Sten as the Chicago-based private investigator and former member of the Army’s...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead. If last week’s Dark Matter explored the cost of never fully escaping the box, Episode 5, “Love and Be Loved,” takes a quieter, more surprising ro...
Emmy Rossum says playing Fiona Gallagher on Shameless came with an unexpected downside off-screen: men she dated sometimes assumed they already knew something about her sexuali...
One of the more persistent frustrations with Dark Matter has been what the series has done - or hasn’t done - with Jennifer Connelly.
For much of the story, Daniela has be...
Chicago has a new private investigator. And she hits considerably harder than most. Prime Video has expanded the world of Reacher with Neagley, the first spinoff built around M...
Chicago has another reason to pay attention to DTF St. Louis. The HBO Max limited series entered this year’s Emmy race with 13 nominations and has already converted six of th...
The Oak Park IL Film Festival has announced its 2026 film lineup, with two days of screenings and events set for September 19 and 20 at the Madison Street Theater in Oak Park.
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Chicagoans, we need to talk about Dark Matter. If you somehow missed the first season of Apple TV’s wildly ambitious science-fiction thriller, now is the time to catch up, be...
For five seasons, The Bear made Chicago's restaurant world a character all its own. The kitchens felt real. The food looked real. The cooks moved like people who had spent ye...
Forty years ago, Ferris Bueller called in sick and took Chicago along for the ride.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit the theaters in the summer of 1986 and became one of ...
Chicago-based Sparkly Productions has announced that its latest short film, CHOKE, has been selected for the 2026 Oscar qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival. The film will...
Congratulations go out to Chicago actor Ashlyn Lozano, who won Best Actress for her performance in the short film Tame at the 2026 Best of the Midwest Awards.
Presented July...
Even Hollywood stars get mistaken for other Hollywood stars. During Apple TV+'s Dark Matter press events at San Diego Comic-Con, Joel Edgerton shared one of the funniest fan en...
Mind blown. If there was one trailer at San Diego Comic-Con that left Hall H collectively questioning reality, it was Apple TV+'s Dark Matter.
The streaming service kicked o...
SPOILERS FOR THE CHI, 'THE LAST DANCE' AHEAD.
For eight seasons, The Chi has been one of television's most authentic love letters to Chicago's South Side. It has never shied...
Chicago filmmaker George Ellzey Jr. is bringing his deeply personal first feature one step closer to the big screen.
The Bronzeville writer-director will begin production o...
The Chi concludes its eight-season run after filming entirely in Chicago, leaving behind a lasting legacy for the city's film community.
When Lena Waithe created The Chi, s...
