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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 […]

  • Justin Freeman
  • September 30, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    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 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 30, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    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 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 29, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    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 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 29, 2016
    • Film , Film & TV , Uncategorized

    This Week in Art House Cinema: The Dressmaker, For the Love of Spock and more

    The Dressmaker Those few times a year when a film escapes from Australia and makes its way stateside, you can usually count on it being a familiar story told through […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Disney’s Live-Action Queen of Katwe

    Outside of the setting and the age of the competitors, Disney’s latest live-action work, Queen of Katwe, is structured using many of the same beats as the most of their […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Storks. Yes, It’s About Babies.

    Allow me to draw your attention to the directing credits on the new animated film Storks. The first name belongs to live-action feature veteran Nicholas Stoller (who also wrote the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: The Magnificent Seven

    Let’s just get this out of the way off the bat: there is no better version of this story than the original, original version—Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai. Six […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2016
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest

    Here Are Some of the Best Films to See at Reeling Film Festival

    The second longest-running film festival of its kind, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival presents nearly 40 features and numerous shorts from around the world during its 2016 edition. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 22, 2016
    • Film , Film & TV

    Snowden, Blair Witch, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, London Road

    SNOWDEN Even if the story presented in Snowden were 100 percent fiction, it would still be a fascinating tale to watch unfold. As directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, Snowden […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 16, 2016
    • Film , Film & TV

    Sully; Complete Unknown; Other People; Neither Heaven Nor Earth; My Love, Don’t Cross That River  

    SULLY When you cast Tom Hanks as the lead in your movie, it’s almost a shortcut to telling the audience who you’re meant to side with in a film in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 9, 2016
    • Film & TV , Film fest

    Northwest Chicago Film Society Season Preview

    Films are back in session as the Northwest Chicago Film Society has announced the schedule for its 15th season, with films being screened between September 7 and December 6. Most screenings […]

  • Alex Udvary
  • September 6, 2016
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