Michael Wilmington

ARCHITECTURE BRUNETTI ON KINGREY Author and critic John Brunetti speaks on the pathbreaking Baldwin Kingrey store, which pioneered the sale of stylish but affordable European furniture in Chicago, at the...

"Assisted Living," an independent film that gets its Chicago premiere Friday at Facets Cinematheque, boasts two remarkable screen debuts: by first-time writer-director-producer Eliot Greenebaum (22 when the shooting began) and...

Some movie sequels--like the mediocre shark string that followed "Jaws" or the recent, appalling "Dumb and Dumberer"--probably should never have been made. "The Ring Two" isn't quite that bad, but...

"The banality of evil" was the phrase Hannah Arendt used to describe the mindset of Germany's death camp culture during World War II, and it perfectly fits the theme and...

Who's in it: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank What it's about: Boxing trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) is still trying to get over a painful estrangement from his daughter when...

Vin Diesel tries to follow in the "Kindergarten Cop" footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Pacifier," and the Governator has nothing to worry about--at least on the movie front. A...

Be forewarned: "Be Cool" ain't. Even if you enjoyed the mean, funny 1995 John Travolta-Elmore Leonard crime comedy "Get Shorty"--and many of us did--this forced sequel isn't likely to help...

"The Zeros" is a real movie lark, an enjoyable road picture about a dying young man and his search for the lost, elusive love of his life. Director-writer John Ryman...

If you want a little edge over the crowd, including the "experts," in the upcoming Oscar guessing race, you'd be smart to catch the Gene Siskel Film Center's world-premiere 2004...

"Imaginary Heroes" is a smart, new American independent film in which Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch and Jeff Daniels play a suburban clan falling apart after a death in the family....