Michael Wilmington

ARCHITECTURE MEMBERS ONLY The Chicago Architectural Club is showing the work of 35 of its members at the I space gallery, 230 W. Superior St., second floor. The projects range...

In the heart-stabbing, weirdly lyrical gem "Vodka Lemon," we meet an unforgettable old widower named Hamo (Romen Avinian). Resident of an isolated, snowy Armenian Kurdish village, Hamo lives a bleak...

Perhaps amiable maverick documentarian Ron Mann ("Comic Book Confidential") is in the midst of a grass trilogy. His current movie, "Go Further," is an amusingly laid back, sometimes rousingly idealistic...

Khyentse Norbu, the Tibetan director of "Travellers & Magicians," is both a member of Tibet's Buddhist monk aristocracy and a devoted film buff/cineaste whose debut feature, "The Cup," put Tibetan...

Will Smith looks great in the previews for "Hitch." But in life or romance, you can't judge books by their covers or movies by their trailers. In the seemingly ubiquitous...

Weddings may make for dubious marriages, but they often inspire entertaining movies--as any number of examples, from Robert Altman's "A Wedding" to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" to "My Big...

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...

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN INNOVATIONS The Field Museum on Friday opens a new exhibition, "Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing," which showcases designs for prefabricated housing. The show, which appears through Jan. 16,...

Robert De Niro, one of our greatest living movie actors, needn't spend the rest of his career sitting on most of his talent while getting huge salaries for wringing broad...

In the movies, stardom can be ephemeral. So, of course, can superstardom--especially as the term applies to that flashy, trashy, sometimes doom-ridden constellation of Manhattan sex symbols and instant celebrities...