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Review: For Its Tenth Film, the Fast & Furious Franchise Mostly Retreads Old Vendettas (and Car Chases)

The Fast & Furious movies have now entered their third decade as a franchise, and we still have one or two of these monsters left (depending on who you listen […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig on Coming-of-Age Stories, Adapting a Beloved Novel and the Universality of Adolescence

    Armed with an English degree from UC Irvine, Kelly Fremon Craig began her Hollywood career as a writer, penning the not-so-well-received 2009 Alexis Bledel-led comedy Post Grad. But it was […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 17, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Documentarian Davis Guggenheim on Still, Crafting a Film from a Life on Screen, and Collaborating with Michael J. Fox

    After quite a few years of directing episodic television (including a multi-episode run on HBO’s Deadwood), director Davis Guggenheim turned nearly full time toward directing and producing documentaries, beginning with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 17, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Gritty and Intense Detail, BlackBerry Recounts the Shady Story of the First Smartphone

    If Ben Affleck’s Air is the feel-good product origin story of the year (and it is), Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is its dark counterpart, a cautionary tale about ambition, technology and toxic […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: For Jennifer Lopez, The Mother Is Another Forgettable Mid-Level Action Flick

    From director Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country, the live-action Mulan—all better movies than this one) comes The Mother, the story of a deadly, nameless female assassin (Jennifer Lopez) whom […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Book Club: The Next Chapter, Legendary Actors are Reduced to Bad Jokes and a Pointless Plot

    It’s almost impossible to fathom that the original Book Club was released in 2018. How the world has changed since those more innocent times when four female best friends of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Stage Adaptation of Spirited Away Brings a Fan Favorite to Life with Innovative Effects and Puppetry

    This article was written by Sarah Luyengi. It was 2002 and I was about 10 years-old when I asked my older brother if he could rent this new movie called […]

  • Sarah Luyengi
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1, Ep1) — Series Premiere Introduces the Idiots Behind Infamous Political Burglary

    The thing about governments that’s easy to forget is that they’re made up of people. It’s possible to think of them as nebulous shadow organizations that control everything and everyone, […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 10, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Jalmari Helander on Bringing Sisu to the Screen, the Influence of Sergio Leone and “The More, The Better”

    With his latest feature, Sisu, Finnish-born writer-director Jalmari Helander finally got to shoot Finland for Finland, having shot Norway for Finland in his 2010 breakthrough film, the demented Christmas-themed Rare […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 3, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Marvel Sets Up a Satisfying Conclusion to This Iteration of Universe-Saving Misfits

    After months of speculation leading up to the most recent Ant-Man and the Wasp film, Quantamania, that Scott Lang was going to somehow get killed by the end, observers of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 3, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV

    Review: Black Creatives Spotlighted in Chicago Humanities Festival’s Documentary Just Like Me

    TTK Harris directed the documentary Just Like Me while a senior art director at ad agency Havas Chicago to chronicle his journey as a designer of color. In his tight, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 30, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: French Auteur François Ozon Brings Heart and Humor to Moving Family Drama Everything Went Fine

    Filmmaker François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) has never shied away from storylines or themes that have the capacity to make us uncomfortable with our own thoughts, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 28, 2023
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