Happening September 5-15, the Toronto International Film Festival provides a fairly decent forecast for the forthcoming awards season. Though both Venice and Telluride film festivals premiere films that will also screen in […]
The kids are back in school, summer is winding down and before long, we’ll all be hibernating again through another Chicago winter. In the meantime, more than a few great cinema events […]
I just got home from a run. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. But it’s true. After my jog today, I’ve completed week four of Couch to 5k, an eight-week […]
A film like After the Wedding offers so much promise. An English-language remake of the 2007 Academy Award nominee of the same name (that one written and directed by Susanne Bier), this version […]
The Amazon is burning and the polar ice caps are melting. Immigrants seeking a better life are being separated from their children and detained like animals. Wars are being raged in lands […]
In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater celebrating 90 years in business is a wonder. When that theater is […]
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale may just be the hardest film of the year to watch. It is brutal and intense, devastating and unflinching. It is also essential, and features perhaps one of the […]
In her first appearance since winning the Oscar for her starring role in The Favourite, where her memorable performance as Queen Anne was only elevated by co-stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss, […]
Particularly compelling documentaries are at their most captivating when they expose audiences to worlds, people, customs, traditions, issues and politics foreign from our own, expanding our understanding of the world (and sometimes […]
Like last year’s triumphant Roma, a film by Alfonso Cuarón set in Mexico City, Lila Avilés’s debut feature film, The Chambermaid, follows the life of a servant. In Roma, it was a live-in caretaker whose […]
The generation obsessed with social media and information that’s instantly available may not even know who Mike Wallace was (and they’re the worse off for it). Though 60 Minutes, the show he helped […]
One of the first things you’ll notice about Luz, the debut feature film from writer/director Tilman Singer, is its grit, both literally and figuratively. Shot on 16mm film, there’s the signature tremble […]
