A Bloody Good Time – A Look At Classic Horror Movies
Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees. For some movie fans these are the ultimate names in film horror and with Halloween approaching movie fans may want to rewatch their favorite […]
Music Box of Horrors Returns For Another Year of 35mm Grainy Evil
Every October, for an exhausting but enriching 24 hours, the Music Box Theatre unleashes some of the creepiest, bloodiest, scariest and just plain weirdest horror films in existence, most of […]
Some of the Best Films to See During Week 1 of Chicago International Film Festival
The 52nd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight with the Chicago premiere of the highly acclaimed La La Land. This is the new project […]
Chatting with Mimi Plauché About the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival, begins on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the AMC River East 21 (where every single CIFF screening will be […]
This Week in Art House Cinema: American Honey, The Birth of a Nation and more
American Honey American Honey is a swirling, passionate and chaotic road journey. At nearly three hours, it is an essential epic about youth as well as an intimate portrait of […]
Film Review: The Girl on the Train
There are a few things about this version of The Girl on the Train that I like. First and foremost is the idea of just letting Emily Blunt play full-on, […]
Watch Chance the Rapper in Kit Kat’s Weird New Halloween Commercial
Seemingly out of nowhere, this week Kit Kat teased in a tweet that Chance the Rapper would be the star of their new Halloween television commercial. Yesterday, they made good […]
This Week in Art House Cinema: Operation Avalanche, White Girl and more
It’s been a busy week in film. We took a look at Deepwater Horizon, which is a textbook example of how to make a make a disaster movie in modern […]
Netflix’s Easy is Joe Swanberg’s Visual Love Letter to Chicago
You’re probably aware by now that Netflix recently released Easy, filmmaker Joe Swanberg’s latest project. The gist of it is that Easy is an unapologetic love letter to Chicago and […]
Film review: Masterminds, Cinematic Comfort Food
The long-delayed (due to Relativity Media’s financial woes) new film from director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentleman Broncos) turns out to be a surprisingly moving love story couched […]
Film Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Regal and Mildly Creepy
The cries that director Tim Burton has righted his sagging string of recent efforts (Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes) with his adaptation of Ransom Riggs’s novel Miss Peregrine’s […]
Film Review: Deepwater Horizon, A Textbook Example of a Modern Disaster Movie
The problem I’ve often had with films directed by Peter Berg, even the ones I’ve liked, have been that he feels the need to have all the knobs turned up […]