“Scenes from a Marriage” meets the pandemic in “Together,” a two-character drama from director Stephen Daldry (“Billy Elliott”) and writer Dennis Kelly (“Black Sea,” “Utopia”). Filmed, like pretty much everything at the time of this writing, under lockdown or semi-lockdown conditions, it’s the story of a couple whose disintegrating relationship is rekindled, reconsidered, and mercilessly dissected…

Dear Ebertfest Audience, As we get closer to the date for the Roger Ebert Film Festival (Ebertfest), we are receiving many messages expressing concern about the Delta Variant of COVID-19. Transmission numbers are picking up again across the country and are predicted to rise and peak in Illinois right when the festival is scheduled. As a…

Resetting a show is hard. “The Good Fight” has done it well, twice. A spin-off of the Julianna Margulies CBS vehicle “The Good Wife,” the Christine Baranski edition was commissioned when we all thought Hillary Clinton was going to be President. It was going to be a show about Baranski’s Diane Lockhart flourishing in a world…

The good news about Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is that it’s just about as funny and charming as one would expect from a murder mystery involving Steve Martin, Martin Short, and an inspired addition to the duo’s renowned comic chemistry, Selena Gomez. And there’s little bad news, really, because the show has figured…

There’s something wrong with Wall Street analyst Richard Boca (Beau Knapp), the main character in the underwhelming horror drama “Mosquito State.” Not “wrong” like the puffy welts that eventually overwhelm Richard’s face, after he gets bitten, and then plays host to, a swarm of mosquitos. Those angry blemishes are at least metaphorically understandable since they…

Director Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” is being sold as a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 horror classic starring Virginia Madsen and Vanessa Williams. This iteration ignores the two actual sequels to writer/director Bernard Rose’s adaptation of a Clive Barker short story, instead picking up in present day Chicago. The Cabrini Green where Madsen’s Helen Lyle character…