Lisanne Skyler weaves memoir with pop art in the quirky, whimsical and affectionate documentary short, Brillo Box (3¢ Off). Skyler’s middle-class parents, Martin and Rita, collected pop art in New […]
Deliberately so, I’m guessing, this year’s Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a screening of a new documentary about the continuing impact of global warming and the efforts that have […]
Just to be clear, the title character of this film actually spells and pronounces its name “Popeye,” like the famous, spinach-eating cartoon sailor, but because there’s already a movie called […]
The best way to phrase my reaction to the long-awaited/delayed adaptation of Stephen King’s multi-novel “The Dark Tower” series is to put it into words fans of the books will […]
Rebecca Fons, the former Education Director of Cinema/Chicago, has a pressing question. “What changes when you’re watching a film you know you’ll never be able to see again?” To find […]
In a single film, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Near Dark) has captured the history and the present of both the resilient city of Detroit […]
Gather around, children, and let me tell you a tale of a time before smartphones and social media. Sure, there were home computers, but most people didn’t really know how […]
This is actually a tougher film to review than you might think. Allow me to explain. First and foremost, Atomic Blonde has a handful of tremendous action sequences, including one […]
Based on Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (and adapted by Alice Birch), Lady Macbeth confirms something that probably wasn’t that difficult to figure out: Things were pretty awful […]
In a setup that sounds remarkably familiar, four women (known collectively as the Flossy Posse) who have been friends since high school decide to take a much needed trip together […]
This is a very silly movie, and if you are someone who prefers your science-fiction stories more on the serious side, you’re probably going to dislike it immensely. But if you appreciate […]
For all the talk of critics showing up to this movie or that one with “knives sharpened,” I think there are a handful of filmmakers for whom critics show up […]