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Summer movie preview: Emma Thompson wants to start a conversation

By JAKE COYLE
May 14, 2022 7:20 AM - The summer movie season has not, traditionally speaking, been known for its nuanced attention to female sexuality. But smack in the middle of Hollywood's high season is "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande," a compassionate comedy in which Emma Thompson stars as a widow seeking romantic excitement with a suave sex worker, played by newcomer Daryl McCormack.
'Firestarter' remake fails to ignite

By Lindsey Bahr
May 13, 2022 10:19 AM - For a movie about a girl with pyrokinetic powers, "Firestarter" is lacking a certain spark. This new adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 novel is not scary or thrilling.
A Victorian widow searches for 'The Essex Serpent' in dark Apple TV+ drama

By George Dickie
May 13, 2022 6:00 AM - Cora Seaborne is a woman who escaped one monster and is pursuing another. As played by Claire Danes in the six-episode drama "The Essex Serpent," premiering Friday, May 13, on Apple TV+, she's a 19th-century socialite who departs London following the death of her abusive husband to investigate reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town of Essex.
Acting chemistry boosts (very) dark 'Count of Three'

By Jocelyn Noveck
May 13, 2022 7:27 AM - "On the Count of Three" is marketed as a "darkly comic" movie. Well, there's dark comedy and then there's comedy like this -- so dark that you wonder if the two words can realistically co-exist in one sentence. The film is about best friends on what might be the last day of their lives.
Weeklong Chicago Critics Film Fest includes appearance by Patton Oswalt, revival of 'Boogie Nights'

By Sean Stangland
May 12, 2022 8:36 AM - The 2022 Chicago Critics Film Festival, featuring seven days of movies starting Friday, May 13, at Chicago's Music Box Theatre, also includes an appearance by Patton Oswalt and revival screenings of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Boogie Nights."
In 'Happening,' a riveting abortion drama

By Jake Coyle
May 12, 2022 6:17 AM - "Happening," Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion-winner at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in 1963 France, but the period detail isn't prominent. Instead, it's an abortion tale that feels as though it could take place in many places, long ago or today.
New to streaming this week: Rebel Wilson, The Black Keys, 'Firestarter'

Associated Press
May 12, 2022 12:09 PM - Netflix's new comedy "Senior Year" starring Rebel Wilson debuts Friday, May 13, and a reboot of Stephen King's "Firestarter" comes to theaters and Peacock on Friday.
Banana! The Minions expand their empire

By JAKE COYLE
May 8, 2022 7:20 AM - This summer, the Minions, the goggle-wearing yellow ones, will return yet again to further expand their sizable empire in "Minions: Rise of Gru" (in theaters July 1).
Movies love a comeback story. This summer, it's their turn.

By LINDSEY BAHR
May 6, 2022 11:39 AM - Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disney's "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" and runs through the end of August.
Q&A: Sam Raimi on 'Doctor Strange' and his superhero return

By Jake Coyle
May 6, 2022 6:00 AM - Marvel's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" heralds director Sam Raimi's career coming full circle, after his "Spider-Man" films with Tobey Maguire helped pave the way for the superhero movie era.

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