If your taste for a love triangle set against a horrific war hasn’t really been satiated since Doctor Zhivago, then there’s a chance you’ll enjoy The Promise. From director Terry […]
The details don’t really matter, but if you can keep up with who is where in this giant Boston warehouse and who is shooting at who, well that only makes […]
Director James Gray has always made movies about perpetual outsiders, people who are living and existing in places far away from where they were born and grew up. He’s dealt […]
Like most of the DisneyNature films released once a year around Earth Day, there isn’t much to say about them beyond the fact that they are visually stunning efforts in […]
With the breezy 80 degree afternoons we had this past weekend, it’s becoming clear that spring is finally here and summer is just around the corner. If you’re looking for yet […]
According to the Chicago Film Office, there are more than 30 film festivals that call Chicago home. Now in its 33rd year, the Chicago Latino Film Festival, presented by the International […]
A bit on the dry side and a darling at the recently ended European Union Film Festival, Cézanne et Moi, the latest work from writer-director Danièle Thompson (La bûche, Avenue […]
I will never fully understand films that contribute to the deification of golf or other sports. In certain books but especially in cinema, golf is treated as if its players […]
Directed and edited by veteran British documentary editor David Fairhead, this exceedingly thorough, educational, and often quite nerve wracking documentary about NASA’s Houston-based Mission Control goes into a great deal […]
In many ways, it doesn’t seem fair to confront a man deep in his 60s about a something he did when he was just 19 years old. But not everyone […]
Celebrated French director François Ozon (The New Girlfriend, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) turns his attention briefly away from France, toward a small town in post-World War I Germany, focusing […]
A great companion piece to the recently released Netflix doc series Five Came Back, about American filmmakers’ role during World War II, Their Finest takes a look at how the […]