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EU Film Festival Ends: Two Docs Plus Other Films We Watched for You

The European Union Film Festival wraps up this week with another round of fine films to be screened through March 30 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Most of them […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 23, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: The Belko Experiment, An Astonishingly Violent Take on Workplace Politics

    Although I was aware that the premise of The Belko Experiment involved a great deal of death and other bad behaviors, I wasn’t quite prepared for just how vicious and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 17, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Beauty and the Beast – A Murky, Mirror Image of Something Wonderful

    It’s one thing to take a familiar cinematic fairy tale and reinvent it or tell it from different perspective (such as Maleficent’s take on Sleeping Beauty, the more action-oriented Snow […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 17, 2017
    • Film & TV , Film fest

    EU Film Festival, Week 3: Lost Lottery Tickets and an Olive Tree in a Spooky Forest

    Some of the best films you’ll have a chance to see all year are being screened this month at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Most of them are screened only […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 16, 2017
    • Film & TV , Film fest

    EU Film Festival: Films We Love (Mostly) for Week 2, March 10-16

    It’s week two of the European Union Film Festival, which continues through March 30 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. For week two, we have recaps […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 9, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: My Life as a Zucchini, Exceptionally Heartfelt

    The last of the Oscar-nominated Best Animated Films titles to be released in the United States is the French work My Life as a Zucchini, from first-time feature director Claude […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 9, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: The Last Word, Held Together By A Nuanced Performance by Shirley MacLaine

    Judging a film based on a its trailer is something I’m quite vocal about avoiding. I live by the rule that trailers always get it wrong; even when they don’t, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 9, 2017
    • Film & TV , Review

    Kong: Skull Island. Not Like Any Version of the Kong Story We’ve Seen

    There are two things I’m very leary of these days in big-budget studio films. One is handing over a giant franchise or otherwise familiar property (like King Kong, for example) […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 8, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Table 19, An Unfocused Mess

    Why does Anna Kendrick have such a difficult time finding material as good as she is? Of late, her best work seems to only be in films that allow her […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Logan, An Epic Western Set in a Hopeless Future

    Through something like eight films leading up to Logan, Hugh Jackman has given us a few different versions of Wolverine, but they’ve all been rooted in the inherent threat that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Before I Fall, A Better Concept Than Execution

    With a concept that is better than the execution, Before I Fall tells the story of Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch), a high school girl who is forced to relive the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Land of Mine, A Positively Terrifying Untold Tale of Retribution From World War II

    One of the four films that lost to The Salesman at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film came from Denmark, a positively terrifying post-World War II suspense work […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
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