In 2001, filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer released the well-received and hugely successful Rivers and Tides, his first collaboration with Andy Goldsworthy, an artist best known for not only using objects in […]
Almost as soon as we meet Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy, best know for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s “The Crown”), we notice things about her. She’s a hard […]
Something I noticed almost immediately about the five-years-in-the-making sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is how much of the film takes places during the daylight, with the sun shining […]
Time is running out to catch some of the best European films of the year at Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival. Now entering its third week (out of […]
If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to film or television in the past 25 years or so, you’ve likely seen actor Jason Isaacs in something. From early appearances […]
Documentaries about passionate people also find a way to move me deeply, and you would be hard pressed to find a more passionate group than families in the Republic of […]
A great deal of cinematic attention has been paid to the hijacking/hostage-taking/hostage-rescue mission that took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. In an almost unprecedented reaction, two […]
Directed by Greg Berlanti (the landmark The Broken Hearts Club as well as an executive producer on all of those CW network DC superhero shows and “Riverdale”), Love, Simon is […]
For a film based on a video game, the first thing you notice about Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t feel like a video game at all. Instead, director Roar […]
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival is in full swing, with the second week of films offering a few of the festival’s biggest highlights. Including films from Croatia, […]
A few times a year, a film is released that explores the sometimes challenging lives of those of us fortunate enough to age into our senior years. Said films can […]
Sometimes it’s more fun not to have heroes in your movie. Case in point: Gringo, the latest from Australian-born stuntman/coordinator Nash Edgerton, the brother of actor and sometime-filmmaker Joel Edgerton […]