THE BOSS Well, it’s better than Tammy. The last time comic dynamo Melissa McCarthy paired creatively with her husband, Ben Falcone, the results were the disastrous, richly unfunny work that […]
The Chicago Latino Film Festival launches its 32nd festival this week with a lineup of 74 feature films and 42 short films from Latin America, the U.S., Spain and Portugal. […]
The first-ever DOC10 documentary film festival is running this today through Sunday, April 1-3, at the Music Box Theatre and features a collection of 2015-16 high-profile docs from the likes of […]
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! With Richard Linklater’s latest, Everybody Wants Some!!, I’ve never had more fun watching a film about guys I never would have hung out with in college. Set […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival concludes this week, so if you love watching films with subtitles, this is your chance. See some of the best of European films at […]
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE I’ll admit I had a tough time starting to write this one. It wasn’t any type of writer’s block or uncertainty about my option […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival continues through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT Most science fiction works on multiple levels, and the best of it cares equally about telling both its character-driven story and crafting its social commentary. My issues […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival runs through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
KNIGHT OF CUPS If you’ve seen the back of any number of great actors’ heads running through a field of tall grass or wheat or on a beach or staring […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival just opened and runs through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
ZOOTOPIA Going back to 2008’s Bolt, Disney Animation Studios has been on something of a roll, one rivaled only by its sister company Pixar. In terms of pure entertainment value, […]