2022 in Review: Best Narrative Films of the Year
It’s the last Friday of the year, so it’s time to reveal my Best of the Year list. As always,…
2022 in Review: Best Documentary Films of the Year
As I am prone to do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not…
Feature: A Century of American Childcare Revealed in CHF’s Screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid
The Chicago Humanities Festival presented a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s hour-long masterpiece The Kid, at the Music Box Theater on…
Dispatch: Chicago International Film Festival Ends With Announcement of Award Winners, Closing Night Feature
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ls history now with winners announced and Closing Night over. Last night’s closing feature…
Preview: 40th Reeling Film Festival Brings LGBTQ+ Films, Filmmakers to Chicago Through October 6
The Second City finds itself home to the country’s second-longest running LGBTQ+ film festival in the form of Reeling Film…
Review: Netflix’s The Sea Beast Anchors a Family Friendly Story in Eye-Catching Animation and Exciting Action
In a time when the new Minions movie is dominating the box office with Top Gun-like astronomical numbers, Netflix gives…
Review: Lightyear Reverse-Engineers the Buzz Toy and Creates an Entertaining Science-Fiction Adventure
There’s nostalgia mining, and then there’s Lightyear, the latest animated work from Pixar that technically isn’t a prequel or origin story…
Retrospective: Music Box Theatre Presents a Week of All Things Weird, Wonderful and Totally Lynchian
Five years (and one pandemic) after its first go-round with an all-David-Lynch, all-the-time program, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre again presents…
Celebrate 50 Years of the Siskel Film Center with 50/50, a Chronological Film Series
The Gene Siskel Film Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, and the downtown cinema is celebrating with a year-long…
Review: Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Are Global Snapshots of Drama, Everyday Life
The five 2020 Live-Action Short Film Oscar Nominees hail from four different countries—Belgium, Tunisia, France and the USA—and average about…
Disney+ has Disney Classics, Marvel and Star Wars, but also a Whole Heap of Obscure Nostalgia
Disney Plus finally launched today, and there’s lots of buzz about the selection of Marvel movies and shows, and the…
Music Box Theatre Celebrates 90 Years of Cinema With One Week Not to Miss
In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater…
