The Islanders scored three times in the third period to beat the Blackhawks 4-0. | Getty

The Hawks remained winless through games after a 4-1 loss spoiled what, through the first two periods, looked like a better effort.

Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton walked out to a chorus of boos during coach and player introductions Tuesday. Based on his expression, he seemed to know it was coming.

The result that later sent fans heading for the exits well before the final horn — a 4-1 loss to the Islanders, dealing the Hawks their fourth straight defeat to open the season — won’t help his reputation.

The Hawks saw countless great looks denied by Isles goalie Ilya Sorokin before unraveling in the third period, watching a narrow 1-0 deficit devolve into a rout thanks to three Isles goals in an 11-minute span.

The Hawks did make it through not only the game’s first 20 seconds but the entire first period unscathed, actually dominating the Isles to the tune of an 18-9 advantage in shots on goal in the frame.

A new, seemingly nonsensical line concocted in some strange depths of Colliton’s brain — Alex DeBrincat with Henrik Borgstrom and Mike Hardman — actually clicked immediately. Borgstrom fed DeBrincat for two Grade-A chances within the game’s opening minutes.

But even that silver lining didn’t last long; Mike Hardman left the game in the third period looking wobbly and disoriented after a high hit.

When Patrick Kane complained Saturday about the NHL’s schedule-making disadvantaging the Hawks by making them the opponent for three consecutive home openers to start the season, he made it imperative the Hawks win their own home opener to support his argument. And they did not.

The Hawks have now trailed for 193 minutes so far this season and led for exactly zero. They’ve been outscored 15-3 during five-on-five play. Their emphasis entering Tuesday on playing more “boring” hockey lasted only part of the game.

Last season, too, the Hawks lost their first four games — then actually rallied to get above .500 after 21 games.

But relatively few teams have started 0-3-1 and gone on to make the playoffs — including last season’s Hawks, of course — and the playoffs were an explicit expectation of general manager Stan Bowman entering this season.

Notes

The Hawks sent young defenseman Ian Mitchell down to the AHL simultaneously with their Hardman recall Monday.
The late Tony Esposito, the Hawks’ all-time winningest goaltender who died in August at age 78, was honored with a pregame tribute.
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It was only four games, but the Bulls finished with the top defense in the preseason. Does that carry weight when the games matter?

It was a nice badge to earn, but the Bulls know it doesn’t mean squat when the ball is tossed up Wednesday in Detroit.

That doesn’t mean they were completely discounting finishing with the best defense in the league throughout the preseason.

“Just a stepping stone,” guard Lonzo Ball said, when that point was made to him on Tuesday. “We’ve just got to build on it every day. Defense is more about effort to me, and just playing for one another.”

If they can play with that mentality when the games matter, both the Bulls players and coaches know that if the defense is top rated, there will be enough offensive firepower to make the roster lethal on both ends of the floor.

That’s what Ball and Alex Caruso have been stressing to their new teammates.

“Defense is just a lot of effort at the forefront,” Caruso said. “You’ve got to care, the care factor has to be high, and after that be disciplined in the stuff that you do and put us in good schemes, good protections for us to execute, and if we go out there and play hard a lot of that takes care of itself.”

What will be interesting to watch – starting against the Pistons – is yes, the Bulls will be undersized against most teams overall, but they also have a lot of wing and backcourt players the same size and with athletic ability. That should allow the Bulls to easily switch.

The key, however, will be playing physical, especially against those taller teams.

“I think for us it’s just going to be being physical,” Ball said. “It’s just about getting into the ball and playing with that pride.”

Minute man

Second-year forward Patrick Williams is scheduled to get the start in Detroit on Wednesday, but like he did in the preseason finale, there will be close eyes on his minutes.

Williams severely sprained his left ankle before the start of camp, and was sidelined for weeks. His conditioning did look a bit iffy against Memphis, but that was to be expected.

“I think it’s something that the medical will want to evaluate,” coach Billy Donovan said. “I think coming into the first Memphis game there was a feeling of maybe 18 to 24 minutes, somewhere in there.

“We’ll probably talk on our way to Detroit about what that would probably look like minute-wise, if there is a minute restriction.”

Sky high

Veteran guard DeMar DeRozan has a friendship with Candace Parker, so of course he was thrilled to see her win the WNBA Championship with the Sky.

“It’s incredible,” DeRozan said. “Especially for Candace, having a relationship, friendship with Candace, seeing her go from LA to Chicago, you come back home and win a championship. Her story has definitely been incredible. I’ve been following her whole career. To be able to witness that, that’s incredible. That’s what it’s all about, supporting women’s basketball and especially Chicago Sky in a city I’ve just come to, to witness that was awesome.”

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot reacts to a question about Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, who told FOP members to ignore the city’s vaccine reporting mandate, during a press conference on Friday. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

A disinclination to adhere to city vaccine policy is putting Chicago in danger, even as COVID-19 has killed one in 500 Illinoisans.

If crime trended in a new direction and the mayor called for action, we wouldn’t expect police to refuse.

If fires were suddenly getting worse, we wouldn’t expect firefighters to ignore alarms because they were offended by a mayoral decree.

We would think that — no matter what fine print some lawyers thought they found in a union contract suggesting that first responders can slough off mayoral orders.

Yet a similar disinclination to adhere to city vaccine policy is putting Chicago in danger, even as COVID-19 has killed one in 500 Illinoisans. John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, earlier told police officers to ignore Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s order that city employees report their vaccination status by last Friday.

As reporters Fran Spielman and Mitch Dudek wrote in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times, the police department registered the lowest compliance rate among all city departments, with only 64.4% reporting their vaccination status to the city. The fire department was second lowest, at 72%.

The word “irresponsible” is just not strong enough to describe what is going on here.

Let’s make it clear: No one is insisting on vaccinations. Employees can opt for twice-weekly testing through the end of the year. And we understand unions by their nature don’t like their employers mandating things.

But allowing first responders, who deal with the public every day, to remain unvaccinated and untested puts city residents at risk. The virus spreads easily. Those with compromised immune systems can die, as just happened to Colin Powell, the late retired general and former secretary of state. Children are vulnerable because they have not yet been vaccinated.

First responders are people who put their lives on the line every day. They run into danger, not from it. As Chicago’s gun violence rages, police officers get shot.

Yet the virus is more deadly than bullets. Across the country, COVID-19 has killed more than 230 police officers this year, more than four times as many as who have been killed by guns, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Both this year and last year, more law enforcement officers have died from COVID-19 than from other causes.

First responders should be getting vaccinated, if only to protect their own health and lives. If they refuse, they put the entire community at risk.

On Friday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Catanzara from publicly encouraging members not to report their COVID-19 vaccine status to the city. It’s time for the FOP to move from an advocacy role to an educational one, telling members who don’t comply that they could lose pay and eventually their jobs. For those who did not report their vaccination status, the disciplinary process has begun at police headquarters.

On Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a fourth union agreement with state workers to get them vaccinated, although the largest union, AFSME, has not yet come to terms. Among other measures, workers who catch the coronavirus get time off to recover without using up sick days.

Here’s the thing about COVID-19: Every time elected officials think they know where the virus is headed, they are surprised. They are caught flat-footed by unexpected downturns, sudden spikes, breakouts in some areas, declines in others. The numbers of sick and dying people have been down in Illinois lately, but no one can say with certainty they will continue to trend downward, even with three effective vaccines. Colder weather is coming. There might be another surge, or another variant.

That means everyone needs to be pulling together to stop the spread of COVID-19. How does refusing to even report one’s vaccination status help?

Pretty much every time Pritzker gives a news conference, someone asks when we can all stop wearing masks, and Pritzker replies when the science shows it is safe. On Monday, he said he’d like to get rid of some mandates in time for the holidays. That’s understandable. People are tired of wearing masks.

As you look around, you see people around the city and county abiding by the rules. They are wearing masks indoors, even though they wish they didn’t have to. They do it to keep themselves and others safe, which is the very idea of community.

First responders should be doing the same thing. They should prioritize their own safety and the safety of the communities they serve.

They should report their vaccine status and help the city move on.

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CNN anchor John King speaks at a March 5, 2020, event in New York City. | Getty Images for WarnerMedia

Anchor reveals the MS diagnosis during an on-air discussion of COVID-19 vaccine manndates.

NEW YORK — CNN anchor John King revealed during an on-air discussion of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Tuesday that he has multiple sclerosis.

“I’m going to share a secret I’ve never spoken before,” King said while leading a panel discussion on his “Inside Politics” show. “I’m immunocompromised. I have multiple sclerosis. So, I’m grateful you’re all vaccinated.”

King and his guests were talking about mandates in the context of the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died Monday of COVID complications despite being vaccinated because he had cancer that compromised his immune system.

CNN mandates that all of its employees who come to work in an office or are out in the field with other people be vaccinated, and fired three employees this summer when they came to work unvaccinated.

King, 58, said his 10-year-old son can’t be vaccinated yet, and he’s concerned about bringing the virus home to him.

“I don’t like the government telling me what to do,” King said. “I don’t like my boss telling me what to do. In this case, it’s important.”

King has worked as a political reporter, White House correspondent and national correspondent for CNN after joining the network from The Associated Press in 1997.

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A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded Tuesday afternoon on the Far South Side. | Sun-Times file photo

The teen was on the sidewalk about 4 p.m. in the 10900 block of South Halsted Street when someone approached him and opened fire, striking him in the left foot, police said.

A 17-year-old was shot and wounded Tuesday afternoon in Morgan Park on the Far South Side.

The teen was on the sidewalk about 4 p.m. in the 10900 block of South Halsted Street when someone approached him and opened fire, striking him in the left foot, Chicago police said.

He was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was in good condition, police said.

No one was in custody.

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Chicago Police Supt. David Brown | Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times

Of the 67.7% of police officers and civilians entered into the city’s online health portal, 82% are vaccinated, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Tuesday.

Twenty-one sworn Chicago police officers are in a no-pay status for refusing to report their vaccination status on the city’s online portal, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said at a news conference Tuesday.

Of the 12,770 employees in the Chicago Police Department, 67.7% have filled out the portal verifying they have either been vaccinated or submitting to twice-weekly testing, up from 64.4% Monday. Of those reporting, 82% have been vaccinated, Brown said. The police department has the lowest compliance rate with the vaccine mandate of any city department.

Over the past several days, police leadership has met individually with each employee not entered into the portal, Brown said, first counseling them on what the city’s vaccine mandate requires, then sending them to human resources to enter no-pay status and finally facing a direct order to report to the portal from the bureau of internal affairs. Of the “several hundred” workers the police department has met with, only 21 refused to put their vaccine information into the portal, even after all three steps of the process, Brown said. Leadership has yet to speak with several hundred or even a thousand more employees not entered into the portal, he said.

“This process has been obviously very emotional,” Brown said. “We have given them the time and given them the explanation as best we can on the serious nature of violating the vaccine mandate.”

But at any point, even those 21 officers in no-pay status can choose to comply and return to work, Brown said.

“We want them to come back,” Brown said.

Brown blamed “misinformation” for why many employees, both civilians and sworn officers, did not initially enter their status into the portal and said officers “should be able to rely on some of their union leadership for accurate information.”

John Catanzara — president of Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police — has posted multiple videos online urging union members not to report their vaccination status. Catanzara has ardently opposed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate, though the mayor has stood her ground and refused to push back the Oct. 15 deadline for city employees to report their status.

Getting all police department employees into compliance, either by being vaccinated or being tested twice a week, is a matter of saving lives of officers, their families and the “people who we are sworn to protect in this community,” Brown said.

“This virus is no different than the gunfire we take as cops,” Brown said. “I will do everything I can, and I will say anything I need to, to convince officers to” comply.

Four CPD officers died in the line of duty in 2020 — all from COVID-19.

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A screenshot from body-camera video of a police raid in 2019 at the home of social worker Anjanette Young. The police were in the wrong home. | CBS 2 Chicago

Ferguson said his investigators interviewed “almost three dozen people” and reviewed “tens of thousands of pages of emails and other government records.” But with so much information kept from him, he said, he couldn’t recommend any disciplinary action.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to hire a private law firm to investigate the police raid on the home of Anjanette Young — and use attorney-client privilege to conceal details of that probe — stymied efforts by the inspector general’s office to find out what happened, Joe Ferguson, the city’s now-retired inspector general, said Tuesday.

Before ending his 12-year run as Chicago’s top watchdog on Friday, Ferguson delivered a 163-page report on the botched raid on the wrong home that humiliated Young. The social worker was left handcuffed and naked for 40 minutes in a room full of male police officers.

Ferguson said he did the best he could under the circumstances. His investigators interviewed “almost three dozen people” and reviewed “tens of thousands of pages of emails and other government records.”

But he was unable to recommend disciplinary action against any city employees. That’s because Lightfoot asked former federal judge Ann Claire Williams and her Jones Day law firm to launch a “simultaneous” investigation that included interviews with 20 of those same city employees. Lightfoot’s administration then claimed “attorney-client privilege” to shield that information from him, Ferguson said.

“What that means is there are other statements that constitute possible evidence that, maybe is exculpatory, maybe is aggravating. But you can’t make a responsible determination about disciplinary findings when you know, in fact, that there is evidence other than what you’re able to collect yourself,” Ferguson said.

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Police body camera video shows the raid on the home of Anjanette Young.

“And so we characterize what we believe to be indicated by the evidence we gather. But, we say affirmatively the mayor’s inter-position of an outside law firm makes it impossible for us to responsibly draw a final bottom-line conclusion about whether or not there were full-blown violations because the administration claimed attorney-client privilege and would not share that separately-gained evidence.”

Lightfoot has been under fire for her changing story about what she knew and when she knew it about the botched raid.

A sobbing Young was captured on bodycam video telling officers more than 40 times that they had the wrong house; eventually, one officer finally gave her a blanket to cover up.

Lightfoot has met with Young and personally apologized to her for having been “denied her basic dignity as a human being.”

The mayor initially insisted she knew nothing about the raid until WBBM-TV (Channel 2) aired the video in December.

But after reviewing internal emails, the mayor was forced to admit she learned about the raid in November 2019, when a top aide warned Lightfoot about a “pretty bad wrongful raid” by Chicago police.

“I have a lot of questions about this one,” she wrote at the time to top aides.

The mayor has emphatically denied knowing anything about her Law Department’s efforts to block CBS2 from airing bodycam video of the raid. To underscore the point, she forced the resignation of corporation counsel Mark Flessner, a longtime friend who served together with Lightfoot in the U.S. attorney’s office.

Although the inspector general’s final report includes no recommendation of disciplinary action, Ferguson said Young was victimized by the initial raid and then “re-victimized” after-the-fact by every level of government.

“She was treated poorly in the context of her FOIA request. She was treated poorly in the context of her litigation. She was just treated poorly and, in some ways, unprofessionally by people who are supposed to be serving the greater public good and approached this in a transactional, litigated way, forgetting the fact that this woman is a victim of government conduct and misconduct and should be treated with respect and as a victim throughout,” he said.

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Anjanette Young, who was a victim of a botched raid by the Chicago Police Department in 2019, speaks to reporters outside CPD headquarters last year.

Lightfoot is a former Police Board president who, along with Ferguson, co-chaired the Task Force on Police Accountability in the furor that followed the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel was ordered to release the video of convicted Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald sixteen times after the video was concealed until Emanuel had been safely re-elected in 2015.

The task force drafted the policy that requires the city to release, within 60 days, video from body- and dashboard-mounted cameras of police shootings and other incidents involving police shooting.

That’s why the accusation that she somehow played a role in the Law Department’s efforts to conceal the video hit so close to home.

“There’s a lot of trust that’s been breached. And I know that there is a lot of trust in me that’s been breached. We will do better. We will win back the trust that we have lost,” the mayor said in December.

On Tuesday, Ferguson characterized the Lightfoot administration’s handling of the Anjanette Young video as a “remarkable, troubling closing of a circle.”

“It brings us back where we were five or six years ago and where her career got its jump-start. Yet the city is engaged in similar activity — and in this instance, with respect to a living victim,” he said.

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Chicago Sky players celebrate their WNBA Championship title Tuesday at Pritzker Pavilion. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Since 2006 the Sky have fought to gain a foothold in the hearts and minds of Chicago basketball fans, but largely to no avail. Tuesday, Chicago celebrated its first professional basketball championship since 1998, marking a huge leap for the franchise and for women’s sports in the city.

Silver anniversaries deserve sterling silver hardware and the Sky understood that assignment.

In the WNBA’s 25th anniversary season, the Sky made a playoff push that had them knocking on their first WNBA Finals door since 2014. They busted that door down, winning the franchise’s first-ever title on Sunday.

The celebration Tuesday fit the historic moment.

When the team met the thousands of fans who awaited them at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion after a championship parade up Michigan Avenue, Sky coach/general manager James Wade had a message.

“Remember the seat you’re sitting in,” Wade said standing at center stage. “We’re gonna make sure you’re sitting in the same one next year.”

Courtney Vandersloot walked into Wintrust Arena Tuesday morning wearing black sunglasses and a boot on her left foot. The sunglasses were maybe a style choice or maybe part of a hangover cure. The boot she wore as a precaution for her plantar fascia.

She looked tired but joyful from celebrating and the Sky’s first-ever WNBA Championship clinching win over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday evening.

Candace Parker walked in side by side with her daughter, Lailaa, and WNBA Finals MVP Kahleah Copper was right behind them.

Two short days ago, Wintrust Arena was getting prepped to welcome 10,378 fans who would bear witness to the Sky’s 80-74, come-from-behind win over the Mercury.

“It still hasn’t set in that we won a championship,” Copper said.

When Parker won her first title with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2016, the team held a massive celebration at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. There was no parade.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that the Sky would not only have a rally but would parade up Michigan Avenue in a five-bus championship motorcade similar to the city’s previous sports champions — all won by men’s teams.

Parker’s parents, Sara and Larry, said it isn’t special the team is being celebrated with a parade; it’s what should be expected.

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Candace Parker and Kahleah Copper cheer as Chicago Sky players celebrate their WNBA Championship title Tuesday at Pritzker Pavilion.

Lightfoot, a Sky season ticket holder with her wife, Amy Eshleman, since the franchise’s inaugural season, said she feels lucky to be Chicago’s mayor at this moment.

Chicago has long been viewed as a basketball city with a rich history in the sport that includes elite high school competition and the Bulls’ two three-peats for six NBA titles.

Since 2006 the Sky have fought to gain a foothold in the hearts and minds of Chicago basketball fans, but largely to no avail. Tuesday, Chicago celebrated its first professional basketball championship since 1998, marking a turning point for the franchise and for women’s sports in the city.

“It’s been our dream all along to see this city embrace this team as they’ve embraced all those men’s teams forever,” Sky majority owner Michael Alter said. “We’re here to stay, and Chicago has fallen in love with this team.”

As the Sky walked out of Wintrust Arena’s loading dock and boarded buses bound for Millennium Park, different chants erupted from the hundreds of fans who lined the street.

“Sky in four!”

“C-P-3!”

“Let’s go Sky!”

One fan threw his Bulls hat up to Parker on the double-decker bus for her signature. With an ear-to-ear grin, she signed it in permanent marker.

As the buses loaded up, the chants grew.

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Thousands cheered as Chicago Sky players celebrated their WNBA Championship title at Pritzker Pavilion.

Parker squeezed by passengers and made her way to the front where the cooler was.

“I need to sneak past you to get my point guard some alcohol,” Parker said. “Yo, Sloot, you want an Angry Orchard?”

Vandersloot and Quigley played a significant role in Parker’s decision to play for the Sky.

Texts were sent, Portillo’s was mailed to Los Angeles and conversations were had about this exact championship moment. When the buses finally departed Wintrust Arena all three of them were wide-eyed, taking in the fans along the route.

Vandersloot stood facing east on bus No. 2. She was hunched over the rail, staring out, waving at the people who lined Michigan Avenue when she let out a deep sigh.

“I truly can’t believe this,” Vandersloot said.

There were few breaks in fans that lined the street and as the team drove by, they connected with as many as they could.

They noticed jerseys, posters and even recognized some fans from the team’s early days.

“From the beginning,” Quigley yelled to them.

When they finally arrived at Pritzker Pavilion the welcome was captivating. Fans from those early days were mixed with new ones.

Parker took the stage and addressed her home crowd, talking about the grit, grind and blue-collar values that she admires about the city.

In one season, she accomplished what she had set out to when she signed in February.

“Hey, guess what?” Parker asked the audience. “Sky in four!”

Cheers and applause rang out.

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Spooky season isn’t complete without a scare on the big screen—whether it’s from a masked serial killer, the creatures of Raccoon City, or Jared Leto as a vampire. In the spirit of Halloween and longer nights, we’ve rounded up the best new horror movies coming to theaters…and your nightmares.

October 29, 2021

“Antlers” follows a small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother, the local sheriff (Jesse Plemons) as they discover a dangerous secret in a young student’s house.

The movie is based on screenwriter Nick Antosca’s short story “The Quiet Boy,” originally published in January 2019. Additionally, “Antlers” is directed by Scott Cooper of “Black Mass” and “Hostiles” and produced by Guillermo del Toro of “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Shape of Water” fame.

See it here:

AMC River East 21 (322 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611)
AMC DINE-IN Block 37 (108 N State St, Chicago, IL 60602)
Regal Webster Place (1471 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614)
Regal City North IMAX & 4DX (2600 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647)

October 29, 2021

Prepare yourself for a mind-bending psychological thriller in acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s “Last Night In Soho.” The film follows Eloise (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), a passionate fashion designer who can mysteriously enter the 1960s. However, it’s only all glitz and glamour until She encounters wannabe singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy).

Staring Ex-Doctor Who Matt Smith and Thomasin McKenzie, movie director Wright, notable for “Baby Driver” and “Shaun of the Dead,” brings us on a wild time jump with dark twists and turns. Are you ready?

See it here:

AMC River East 21 (322 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611)
AMC DINE-IN Block 37 (108 N State St, Chicago, IL 60602)
AMC DINE-IN 600 North Michigan 9 (600 North Michigan, Chicago, IL 60611)
Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema (2828 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657)

November 24, 2021

Fans of the Resident Evil franchise are in for a treat with this reboot as the film follows a small band of survivors whom fans of the video game franchise would recognize instantly. The group, including siblings Claire (Kaya Scodelario) and Chris Redfield (Robbie Amell), Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen), and Leon S. Kennedy (Avan Jogia), must work together to make it through the night and uncover Umbrella Corporation’s secrets. 

Furthermore, the film also stars Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker and Lily Gao as Ada Wong. As you’d expect from anything Resident Evil, the group encounters plenty of twisted and gnarly creatures made of nightmares. So if you love creature-and-action-based horror films, the new Resident Evil will be quite a treat.

See it here:

Marcus Orland Park Cinema (16350 South La Grange Road, Orland Park, IL 60467)

January 14, 2022

We’re not sick of “Scream” just yet. In the fifth installment of the franchise, a new Ghostface targets a group of teenagers 25 years after the streak of brutal murders in small-town Woodsboro, California. Additionally, the new Scream sees the return of original cast members Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette reprising their roles as our favorite characters. Jack Quaid, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, and Dylan Minnette will join the slasher as well. 

January 28, 2022

“Morbius” follows award-winning biochemist Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), who suffers from a rare blood disease. Instead of curing his condition, however, his search for a cure leads him to become a living vampire, complete with superhuman strength and speed, accelerated healing, and bloodlust. 

This story of the villain is the latest addition to Sony’s Spider-Man universe. Matt Smith, Tyrese Gibson, Adria Arjona, and Michael Keaton will also appear in the film. Therefore, for those of you who have been following the Spider-Man universe, Morbius will surely stand up to your expectations.

February 4, 2022

Directed by Scott Derrickson and produced by Jason Blum, “The Black Phone” is based on the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill. In this film, a string of missing children plagues a small suburban Colorado town in the 1970s. Soon enough, we found out that 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) became the latest kidnapping of the serial killer known as The Grabber (Ethan Hawke).

Meanwhile, in a soundproof basement, Shaw discovers a disconnected phone that transmits the voices of the killer’s previous victims. What awaits Shaw? Would he survive, or would he follow the doomed fate of these fellow victims?

And hear us out: we have a phone in a horror movie that’s actually helpful and not sinister! 

Featured Image Credit: Sony Pictures

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