Founded in 2002, the Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Convention is the largest and longest-running horror convention in the Chicago area (Rosemont to be specific), taking place at the Crowne Plaza […]
Finally August. Summer is winding down and we’re one month closer to the best time of year: Fall Movie Season. As we await the awards bait and end-of-year blockbusters, there’s […]
En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) is set in the summer of 2016, and in a way, this timing—recent as it may be—is a small grace as we spend […]
It seems like it has been a while since a really effective documentary has struck fear in me for the future of our country on an issue that, on the […]
Tom Cruise is 56 years old, and I choose to believe he could keep making Mission: Impossible movies for the rest of his life. (Or Jack Reacher films or maybe […]
Outdoor movies in Chicago abound in the summer months, as the park district, Gallagher Way at Wrigley Field and many, many more present movies in the open air. Though their […]
As the age of the found footage films seems to be taking its final few breaths, the era of movies composed of nothing but windows popping up on a computer […]
When Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, the latest from Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, To Die For, Milk) defies expectations, it’s a glorious thing. But when […]
At its heart, Blindspotting is a film by and about friends. Longtime music collaborators and Oakland natives Daveed Diggs (best known for his Tony-award-winning dual role in Hamilton) and poet […]
When I was in eighth grade (many moons ago), the internet barely existed, let alone social media. The idea of everyone having their own handheld computer that connected them to […]
Eugene Jarecki is a documentary filmmaker who’s never been afraid to go there, to ask the hard questions and investigate from every angle. His 2005 film Why We Fight, about America’s seemingly insatiable need […]
In the 2014 Equalizer movie (as the sequel is, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington), Washington’s Robert McCall was a man trying to put his deadly past behind […]