In the nearly 20 years I’ve been a part of Ain’t It Cool News, I’ve been very fortunate to be a part of some truly great events. But never in my time […]
A Complete Guide to the 5th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival
Steve Prokopy
Film Review: The Dinner, A Junk Movie with Garbage Characters
Oh, how I loathed this movie. And it’s not just that I hated the characters in the film—I’m certainly capable of liking a work with bad people at its center—I just really […]
Film Review – Risk: An Astonishing Look into the Worldview of Julian Assange
If I’ve got my timelines correct, when Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (CitizenFour), was holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room with Edward Snowden and a pair of journalists, she was […]
Film Review – My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea: A Perfect Blend of Sly, Cynical, and Silly
I feel that John Hughes would approve. From noted graphic novelist Dash Shaw (“New School,” “Cosplayers”) comes an animation experience that combines a high school comedy with a disaster movie and a […]
Film Review – David Lynch: The Art Life, A Portrait of a Cinematic Mastermind
In this strangely organic and homey approach to a biography documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life concentrates exclusively on the filmmaker’s early years, leading up to and concluding with the making of […]
Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Marvel’s Latest Cosmic Adventure is a Blast
Just when I think I have figured out what writer-director James Gunn is capable of, he goes and makes Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and shows me he’s capable of so […]
Film Review: Voice from the Stone, Frequently Frustrating
This odd but sometimes captivating bit of Gothic psychological drama with a hint of a ghost story sprinkled in for added flavor is sneaking out into the world this week courtesy of […]
Film Review – Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, The Trials and Tribulations of a Master Chef
If the films were actually bad, I’d consider this onslaught of documentaries about world-renowned chefs and restaurants an epidemic. But so far at least, each one has had a unique spin on […]
Restored in Glorious 4K, Ugetsu is a Stellar Japanese Ghost Story
Deemed “one of the greatest of all films” by Roger Ebert, director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 signature film (made only three years before his untimely passing) is the story of two couples whose […]
Film Review – How to Be a Latin Lover: An Uneven, Juvenile Mess
Until recently, Mexican-born actor-director-producer Eugenio Derbez was mostly unknown to those outside of his massive Latino fanbase. I suspect though that the 54-year-old comedic giant is at the beginning of a campaign […]
Get Surreal at Music Box’s Massive David Lynch Retrospective
With the much-anticipated relaunch of “Twin Peaks” coming to Showtime next month (May 21), the Music Box Theatre is embarking on what might be its most ambitious film series ever. Featuring everything […]
Film Review: Pelle the Conqueror – A Masterful, Almost Otherworldly Work of Art
On the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (as well as its Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or win), Pelle the Conqueror has been given a stellar 2K restoration and […]
