Contagion (movie)

In "Gimme the Loot," a loose, disarming bit of larceny — and one of the bright offerings of the 48th Chicago International Film Festival — director Adam Leon's Bronx-bred characters live to tag. Teenage graffiti artists on the run, the friends...

A sly one, "Side Effects" is a movie in which the main character's pharmacological state of mind is never entirely certain. In such a role it's critical to have someone who can keep an audience guessing as to the state of that mind, moment to moment....

Is it really a big surprise to discover that while America is enduring its worst economic downturn in 70 years and experiencing a paroxysm of partisan political infighting that the No. 1 movie last weekend was “Contagion,” which depicts a........

At the box office this weekend, "Contagion" is expected to be the No. 1 film. "Warrior," about MMA fighting, will have a soft opening while "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" and "Creature" are expected to flop....

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"Contagion" knocked "The Help" out of the No. 1 spot at the box office this weekend. "Warrior," "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" and "Creature," the three other new films that opened this weekend, only sold a modest number of tickets....

Jude Law gets the Robbie Conal treatment in 'Contagion'...

I haven't seen the new Steven Soderbergh movie, "Contagion," although I must say the commercials are pretty effective. It is fiction; we're all clear on that. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (whose headquarters were employed in the...

When he's on a film set, Ken Gold sees himself as the sole advocate for the health and welfare of one part of the cast that can't speak for itself: the animals. Gold, who is based in Chicago, has worked for the past 11 years as an American Humane...

In "Snitch," a thriller set in the dangerous drug world, Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes to work as a drug informant to free his jailed son. The PG-13 film from Participant Media features a street fight, a car chase and a gun battle — high-...

A determined group of middle school students in Berwyn is working to end the use of disposable plastic "sporks" in the cafeteria, and the message has carried into an award-winning short film. The Heritage Earth Action Team, or H.E.A.T., at Heritage...