What to Watch on the Small Screen: June 2018
June marks the beginning of summer—a perfect excuse, in other words, to put off work and catch up on some good movies. Here are our recommendations for what to stream […]
June marks the beginning of summer—a perfect excuse, in other words, to put off work and catch up on some good movies. Here are our recommendations for what to stream […]
This weekend, Chicago is celebrating science fiction and fantasy film with the Juggernaut Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre. Now in its sixth year, this festival is being put […]
Considering it starts out a little shaky, Feral, the latest from director/co-writer Mark H. Young (The Killing Jar), actually turns into something rather interesting, albeit predictable and not especially scary. […]
From writer-director Matthew Newton (From Nowhere) comes a story of people who struggle to keep at bay the things that have gotten them into trouble in the past. Who We […]
I believe I was first made aware of fashion journalism and all-around expert André Leon Talley when I saw the Vogue magazine documentary The September Issue. It was clear then […]
Documentarian Tony Zierra has been fascinated with those who have been so close to fame, they could almost taste it. His first doc, 2001’s acclaimed Carving Out Our Name, profiled […]
Based on the true-life story of Tami Oldham (played here by Shailene Woodley), Adrift re-creates what happened to her and her boyfriend Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) after the high-end sailboat […]
In something of a throwback to the more violent science-fiction outings of filmmakers like Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg, writer/director Leigh Whannell (the writer/co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises, […]
The Australian-born Leigh Whannell is one of the most successful writers of horror/genre films currently working. He wrote the first three Saw films, all four Insidious movies (he even directed the third […]
Although technically a prequel of sorts to the Maysles brothers’ landmark documentary Grey Gardens—about Jackie Kennedy’s eccentric, stuck-in-a-dream-world family members Big Edie and Little Edie Beale—That Summer feels more a like […]
It’s rare that a wartime-set film focuses primarily on the struggles of those left back home, but in The Guardians, the latest work from director Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and […]
Saoirse Ronan arrived in Joe Wright’s 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan’s heartbreaking novel Atonement. Now, she returns a decade later to a McEwan work in On Chesil Beach, adapted for the screen […]