What awards will these fall movies win?
It’s no secret that most movies jockeying for awards attention arrive during the last few months of the year, either because it’s assumed that voters have short memories or because...
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7 quick weekend trips near Chicago
Don't waste another three-day weekend on your couch surrounded by Two Buck Chuck empties and takeout cartons (not that we're judging or anything). Instead, hit the road on a quick...
Lily Tomlin and Sam Elliott light up ‘Grandma’
Many years ago, when I was old enough to know I cared about movies but too young to actually know anything, it used to drive me crazy when people earned...
‘We Are Your Friends’ puts something real into artificial sounds
How easy it would be glance quickly at Lolla's Perry's Stage and classify EDM solely as the vomit-laced, tear-filled soundtrack to 16-year-olds' mistakes. Sometimes that's accurate, but you know the...
Will the next Taylor Swift please stand up?
That's a loaded headline, I know. And yes, yes, there is only one Taylor Swift, aka T-Swift, aka Tay-Tay, aka T-Swizzle, aka Social Center of Hollywood, age 18-29 category. But...
‘Zipper’ is pretty painful
Patrick Wilson has made some really good movies ("Hard Candy," "Little Children") about guys who can't keep it in their pants. And then there's "Zipper," a pathetic excuse for a...
Sam Elliott talks ‘Grandma’: ‘I felt like I did what I went there to do’
Sam Elliott emerges from the bedroom in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, having just finished lunch taken out from Giordano’s (deep-dish loaded with vegetables and pepperoni). “Fuckin’ unbelievable,”...
Watch Sam Elliott’s dramatic reading of Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’
Sam Elliott is great in “Grandma,” opening Friday, and he’s a great sport, too. During last week’s interview, I mentioned James Earl Jones previously doing a dramatic reading of Justin...
No thought went into ‘No Escape’
To save his kids from homicidal maniacs, Jack (Owen Wilson?!) throws each of his daughters from the roof of one building into the arms of his wife, Annie (Lake Bell,...
Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski, Max Joseph of ‘We Are Your Friends’ play ‘Real or fake DJ?’
The morning of his interview with RedEye, Zac Efron was in a rush to pack and get to the airport. He usually turns on music to wake himself up. Today,...