https://shotonwhat.com/region/illinois The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:48:10 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:05:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:16:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980
Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: John Bailey
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-accountant-2-2016 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:49:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-accountant-2-2016
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:21:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cats-2019 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:33:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cats-2019
Director: Tom Hooper
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/home-alone-3-1997 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:56:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/home-alone-3-1997
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cinematographer: Julio Macat
Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fends off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/minding-the-gap-2018 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:31:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minding-the-gap-2018
Director: Bing Liu
Cinematographer: Bing Liu
Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-best-friends-wedding-1997 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:57:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-best-friends-wedding-1997
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cinematographer: László Kovács
When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/primal-fear-1996 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:33:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/primal-fear-1996
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-2-2004 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:28:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-2-2004
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-in-room-6-2022 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-in-room-6-2022
Director: Trevor Juenger
Cinematographer: Dylan Schnitker, Joe Tello, Rexx Villotti
Carrie (Jackie Kelly) is a socially-troubled young woman trying to mend a strained relationship with her mother. After her grandfather dies in a nursing home, Carrie finds herself attracted to William (Bill Oberst Jr.), an elderly... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/operator-2016 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:07:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/operator-2016
Director: Logan Kibens
Cinematographer: Steeven Petitteville
Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Emily, a budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one another in their work. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-battlefield-1972 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:51:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-battlefield-1972
Director: Peter Biskind
Cinematographer: Peter Biskind
In 1971, African- American protesters seeking economic justice and voting rights are met with armed violence by white vigilantes in the Mississippi River town of Cairo, Illinois. They fight back. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/incredibles-2-2018 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 23:03:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/incredibles-2-2018
Director: Brad Bird
Cinematographer: Mahyar Abousaeedi, Erik Smitt
The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/natural-born-killers-1994 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:43:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/natural-born-killers-1994
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:00:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/empire-2-2015 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:13:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/empire-2-2015
Director: Sanaa Hamri, Craig Brewer, Mario Van Peebles, Millicent Shelton, Paul McCrane, Danny Strong, Lee Daniels, Howard Deutch, Bille Woodruff, Dianne Houston, Kevin Bray, Michael Engler, Cherien Dabis, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Clement Virgo, Jussie Smollett, Debbie Allen, Rob Hardy, Anthony Hemingway, Dee Rees, Rosemary Rodriguez, John Singleton, Sylvain White, Paris Barclay, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Dennie Gordon, Benny Boom, Tricia Brock, Karen Gaviola, Tamra Davis, Eric Haywood, John Krokidas, Michael Goi, Darren Grant, Gabourey Sidibe, Dawn Wilkinson
Cinematographer: Paul M. Sommers, Joe 'Jody' Williams, Sidney Sidell, Andrew Dunn
A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-wife-2016 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:37:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-wife-2016
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez, Michael Zinberg, Brooke Kennedy, James Whitmore Jr., Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Jim McKay, Frederick E.O. Toye, Robert King, Matt Shakman, Nelson McCormick, Rod Holcomb, Roxann Dawson, Griffin Dunne, Josh Charles, Paris Barclay, Charles McDougall, Christopher Misiano, Dean Parisot, Kevin Hooks, David Dworetzky, Scott Ellis, Daniel Minahan, Gloria Muzio, John Polson, John Gallagher, Lesli Linka Glatter, Julie Hébert, Peter O'Fallon, Steve Shill, Alex Zakrzewski, Phil Abraham, Tom DiCillo, Joshua Marston, David Platt, Ted Humphrey, Craig Zisk, Phil Alden Robinson
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy, Tim Guinness, M. David Mullen
Alicia has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/southside-with-you-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:05:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/southside-with-you-2016
Director: Richard Tanne
Cinematographer: Patrick Scola
The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lo-and-behold-reveries-of-the-connected-world-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:04:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lo-and-behold-reveries-of-the-connected-world-2016
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Peter Zeitlinger
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/suicide-squad-2016 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:08:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/suicide-squad-2016
Director: David Ayer
Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/trust-2010 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:04:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/trust-2010
Director: David Schwimmer
Cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/barbershop-the-next-cut-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:19:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/barbershop-the-next-cut-2016
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
As their surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, the crew at Calvin's Barbershop come together to bring some much needed change to their neighborhood. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-boss-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:18:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-boss-2016
Director: Ben Falcone
Cinematographer: Julio Macat
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-note-of-triumph-the-golden-age-of-norman-corwin-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:49:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-note-of-triumph-the-golden-age-of-norman-corwin-2005
Director: Eric Simonson
A biography of Poet Norman Corwin, and the events surrounding his powerful radio broadcast commemorating VE Day on May 8, 1945. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/in-the-heat-of-the-night-1967 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:05:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/in-the-heat-of-the-night-1967
Director: Norman Jewison
Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler
An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:26:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-2016
Director: Zack Snyder
Cinematographer: Larry Fong
Fearing that the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-weather-underground-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:06:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-weather-underground-2002
Director: Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Cinematographer: Andrew Black, Federico Salsano
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-sting-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:44:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-sting-1973
Director: George Roy Hill
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/angry-video-game-nerd-the-movie-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:38:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/angry-video-game-nerd-the-movie-2014
Director: Kevin Finn, James Rolfe
Cinematographer: Jason Brewer
The AVGN must overcome his phobia of the worst video game in the world to save his fans. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/grand-piano-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:21:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/grand-piano-2013
Director: Eugenio Mira
Cinematographer: Unax Mendia
A pianist with stage fright endures a performance under the eyes of a mysterious sniper, who will shoot and kill him if a wrong note is played. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/glen-campbell-ill-be-me-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:55:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/glen-campbell-ill-be-me-2014
Director: James Keach
Cinematographer: Alex Exline
As he struggles with Alzheimer's disease, country-music legend Glen Campbell embarks on his farewell tour in the U.S., Australia, and Europe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/finding-vivian-maier-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:51:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/finding-vivian-maier-2013
Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Cinematographer: John Maloof
A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kill-game-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:36:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kill-game-2015
Director: Robert Mearns
Cinematographer: Andrew Strahorn
In the fictional town of Grace Arbor the answers are never clear.Who is underneath the mask? PRANK'd is the story of a group of high school kids who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlie-countryman-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:25:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlie-countryman-2013
Director: Fredrik Bond
Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
While travelling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shameless-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:25:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shameless-2011
Director: Mark Mylod, Christopher Chulack, Iain B. MacDonald, John Wells, Anthony Hemingway, Mimi Leder, David Nutter, Sanaa Hamri, Peter Segal, Zetna Fuentes, John Dahl, Alex Graves, Gary B. Goldman, William H. Macy, Wendey Stanzler, Allison Liddi-Brown, Emmy Rossum, Adam Bernstein, Scott Frank, Todd Holland, Stephen Hopkins, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Craig Zisk, Danny Cannon, Randall Einhorn, James M. Muro, Steve Shill, James Ponsoldt, Richie Keen, Michael Uppendahl, Nisha Ganatra, Ruben Garcia, Rob Hardy, Jake Schreier, Lynn Shelton, John M. Valerio, Regina King, Michael Morris, Kat Coiro, Erin Feeley, Anna Mastro, Jeffrey Reiner, Silver Tree, Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, Roberto Sneider, Loren S. Yaconelli
Cinematographer: Kevin McKnight, Rodney Charters, Anthony Hardwick, Loren S. Yaconelli, James M. Muro
A scrappy, fiercely loyal Chicago family makes no apologies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/boss-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:24:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/boss-2012
Director: Jean de Segonzac, Mario Van Peebles, Jim McKay, Gus Van Sant, Phil Abraham, Lesli Linka Glatter, Nelson McCormick
Cinematographer: Richard Rutkowski, Kasper Tuxen
Mayor Tom Kane, diagnosed with a dementia disorder, struggles to keep his grip on power in Chicago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/divergent-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:22:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/divergent-2014
Director: Neil Burger
Cinematographer: Alwin H. Küchler
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-age-of-extinction-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:22:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-age-of-extinction-2014
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Amir Mokri
When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chicago-fire-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:22:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chicago-fire-2012
Director: Joe Chappelle, Reza Tabrizi, Sanford Bookstaver, Jann Turner, Jean de Segonzac, Tom DiCillo, Steve Shill, Michael Brandt, Alex Chapple, Michael Slovis, Holly Dale, Eric Laneuville, Leslie Libman, Arthur W. Forney, Dan Lerner, Karen Gaviola, Alik Sakharov, Haze J.F. Bergeron III, Dru Anne Carlson, Jono Oliver, Matt Earl Beesley, Stephen Cragg, Olivia Newman, Bill Johnson, Constantine Makris, Gloria Muzio, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Darnell Martin, Daniel Sackheim, Rod Holcomb, Karyn Kusama, Fred Berner, Jeffrey G. Hunt, John Hyams, David Rodriguez, James Hanlon, Lin Oeding, Batan Silva, Mark Tinker, Milena Govich, Paul McCrane, Carl Seaton
Cinematographer: Lisa Wiegand, Jayson Crothers, William R. Nielsen Jr., Marc Ritzema, Anthony J. Lullo
The story of firefighters in Chicago, both on a personal and professional level. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mob-doctor-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:21:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mob-doctor-2013
Director: Michael Dinner, Ken Olin, Adam Arkin, Thomas Carter, David Grossman, Daniel Sackheim, Peter Weller, Randy Zisk, Michael W. Watkins, Kate Woods
Cinematographer: Arthur Albert
A young thoracic surgeon becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia and is forced to moonlight as a mob doctor, while also working full time at Chicago's most prominent hospital. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/drinking-buddies-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:09:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/drinking-buddies-2013
Director: Joe Swanberg
Cinematographer: Ben Richardson
Luke and Kate are coworkers at a brewery who spend their nights drinking and flirting heavily. One weekend away together with their significant others proves who really belongs together and who doesn't. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-chicago-code-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:46:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-chicago-code-2011
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, Clark Johnson, Michael Offer, Adam Arkin, Paris Barclay, Jean de Segonzac, Guy Ferland, Billy Gierhart, Charles McDougall, Terrence O'Hara
Cinematographer: Rohn Schmidt, M. David Mullen
Detective Jarek Wysocki, one of Chicago's toughest cops, struggles to clean up the town's violence and corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/officer-down-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:36:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/officer-down-2013
Director: Richard Bakewell
Cinematographer: Chun Ming Huang
Becky Rooks, a young female rookie cop, experiences a loss of control during a routine traffic stop where she is assaulted and her life is spared because instead of fighting back she decided to play possum. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ray-2004 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:28:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ray-2004
Director: Taylor Hackford
Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/poltergeist-iii-1988 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:06:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poltergeist-iii-1988
Director: Gary Sherman
Cinematographer: Alex Nepomniaschy
Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-robot-2004 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:59:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-robot-2004
Director: Alex Proyas
Cinematographer: Simon Duggan
In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/road-to-perdition-2002 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:29:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/road-to-perdition-2002
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge. ]]>