After reducing the Windy City to rubble in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (with the help of movie magic, not actual carnage), filming for the fourth...

From mega blockbusters like "The Dark Knight" to scores of romantic hits, Chicago is well-represented on the silver screen. Though Chicagoans prefer t...

After the inaugural Englewood Film Festival last year, founder Mark Harris wasn't sure there'd be another one. Ticket sales were so low for the in...

A-List actor Shia LaBeouf is reportedly back in Chicago filming a new movie. And no, this time he hasn't been arrested. (Yet, at least.) According ...

A classic Kenilworth Colonial recently re-listed as a rental blocks from Lake Michigan has a claim to fame beyond its turn-of-the-century grandeur: it...

A local filmmaker's latest documentary project is the subject of a swanky fundraiser to be held next Tuesday in Chicago. Ky Dickens, award-winning ...

Think of it sort as an updated take on "Hoop Dreams," except that its basketball-playing dreamers use wheelchairs. And they live in Afghanistan, not t...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is slated to make a different sort of silver-screen appearance when he plays himself in a television pilot that NBC may pickup as p...

Chicago's Logan Theatre has announced its "soft" reopening, with $1 admission, $1 popcorn and $1 fountain drinks. The reopening is slated for Satur...

For self-professed "movie addict" and long-time Chicago-based film critic Richard Knight, Jr., it was probably only a matter of time until he put down...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 forever impacted the lives of every American -- but for Muslim Americans, their lives changed more than th...

Will they be forever immortalized like The Dark Knight, or will they be instantly forgotten like the epic tale of an infant versus kidnappers in 1994's Baby's Day Out? Only time will tell.

Despite the city's reputation for brutally cold winters, deep-seated political corruption and deep-dish pizza bellies, Chicago has also been home to s...

May Tchao wasn't always an aspiring filmmaker, but after working in the advertising industry for years, the Chinese-American Evanston, Ill. resident k...

In the summer of 2009, three gravediggers and a cemetery manager in Alsip, Ill., 12 miles south of Chicago, were exposed in an elaborate money-grubbin...

Chicago filmmaker Cyrus Dowlatshahi appears to approach his craft a bit differently than most, at least based on the footage he has released thus far ...

CHICAGO -- Striding quickly through the streets he learned as a boy, Mark Harris handed out fliers hoping to entice people to spend a weekend in Chica...

When Chicago filmmaker Jeremy Tubbs hit the road with his friends, punk band The Downtown Struts, he likely didn't expect their first U.S. tour would ...

In 2009, Chicago filmmaker Marc Buhmann, frustrated with the lack of a one-stop-shop news outlet for fans of genre (horror, sci-fi, fantasy), got toge...

The 47th Chicago International Film Festival begins this Thursday, Oct. 6 with the Chicago premiere of the locally produced The Last Rites of Joe May,...

Perhaps it can be chalked up to a renewed sense of nostalgia for the now deceased film director John Hughes, or perhaps we're in the midst of a collec...

As our stubborn winter weather leaves us a bit reluctant to spend time outdoors, why not check out some great films being shown at our local theaters?...

"Transformers 3" -- the sci-fi action thriller filming in Chicago this summer -- will pump $20 million into the local economy and create 200 jobs, inc...

While the Tony Awards were were going on in New York this weekend, Chicago was having its own party, honoring producer, director and actor Ron Howard ...