Michael Wilmington

ART `ALONG THE DES PLAINES RIVER' Photographs and digital images by artists from Chicago and the suburbs; through Aug. 26; William A. Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf...

With his jock good looks, diffident air and squinty-eyed intensity, Matt Damon is an unlikely looking movie hero. But maybe that's why he's so good as ex-CIA hit man Jason...

ART `DISRUPTING THE IMAGE' Paintings and sculpture by Nick Black, Mark Ottens, David Reninger and John Santoro, Chicago natives and friends with a highly personal vocabulary; through Aug. 29; Ukrainian...

Midway through the Isaac Asimov-inspired "I, Robot"-- in a chase scene with Will Smith as future Chicago cop Del Spooner, surrounded and attacked by vans full of menacing robots--we get...

CLASSICAL CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Ravinia's former music director conducts his first Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts of the Ravinia season next weekend. His program at 8 p.m. Friday holds the Brahms Double...

A violent, revisionist look at King Arthur's knights from director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day"), writer David Franzoni ("Gladiator") and producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Bad Boys"); they make the Middle Ages look...

In "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," writer-star Will Ferrell and co-writer-director Adam McKay make fun of three subjects ripe for the comic slaughter: TV news-casting, male chauvinism and '70s...

Marlon Brando may have been the most admired movie actor of his generation, but he was also one of the most oft-knocked and severely criticized. His fellow actors may have...

Marlon Brando and his reputation were the mountains almost every later movie actor wanted to climb, the models of offhand excellence they all wanted to equal or surpass. He was...

ART `ON WITH THE SHOW!' With photographers Victor Skrebneski, Tom Maday and Michael Voltattorni, nearly 40 black-and-white images of the support staff of Chicago theaters opens Friday; City Gallery, Water...