The second installment of the quarterly film series “Dinner & Docs @ The Davis” is happening Wednesday, Sept. 27 with a preview screening of the powerful new work No Man’s […]
It’s been a little over 12 years since Star Trek: Enterprise aired its final episode, which ended with a solemn farewell to all of the Trek that had come before […]
When producers Brian and Jan Heiggelke, who together publish New City, and Eugene Park were looking for a Chicago movie project to back, they had one condition: it had to […]
After sitting on the shelf since it completed shooting in 2014, the internet-based horror offering Friend Request has the further indignity of being released just two weeks after It, which […]
As disturbing or angst-ridden as they can get, I have a real affection for the works of Mike White, as both writer and director. His only previous time as a […]
I absolutely adore this movie and all of its dark corners. This is my first exposure to the works of writer-director Ingrid Jungermann, who stars in Women Who Kill as […]
For reasons I can’t quite explain, I have an affection for films about the fashion industry, whether they’re about specific designers or tastemakers who run magazines, take photos, or otherwise […]
Yes indeed, there was a 2001 ABC movie called (spoiler alert!) When Billie Beat Bobby, starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver as the battling tennis players Billie Jean King and Bobby […]
The two best films being released this week are based on high-profile true stories— ’70s tennis drama The Battle of the Sexes (see separate review) and the Boston Marathon bombing […]
An independent filmmaker committed to seeing their movie get made will likely, at some point, turn to crowdfunding to make it happen. Services like Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide a platform […]
When I say this is my least favorite of the three Lego animated films, I don’t mean that as an insult; I just mean that the The LEGO Movie and […]
Kingsman: The Secret Service, the 2014 British adaptation of the Mark Millar-Dave Gibbons comic book series, felt subversive because it didn’t feel like it was trying to be subversive. The […]