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…
A Local Brewery “Dumped Trump” and Now You Can Support the Documentary About It
Another day, another debacle of diplomacy from the current administration, amiright? Whether it’s his former campaign manager and personal lawyer…
The Abandoned Kingdom: Movie Palaces and Chicago’s Lost Film History
By Adam Prestigiacomo News last month regarding plans to restore the Uptown Theatre came as a welcome surprise to Chicagoans…
Screens Monthly: January
With the new year comes the coldest temperatures in Chicago since…well, since last winter, probably. In what’s traditionally a month…
Critic Steve Prokopy Names Best Narrative, Documentary Films of 2017
I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s…
Chicago Film Critics Honor Best Films of The Year; Lady Bird Nabs Top Honor
To the National Board of Review, it’s The Post. To the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, it’s Call Me By…
Fan Favorite The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long Returns to Music Box Theatre
This guest Screens post was written by Matthew Nerber. A Thanksgiving tradition as reliable as Grandma’s pumpkin pie, the Music…
Closing for Seat Upgrades, Gene Siskel Film Center Plans “On Location” Screenings for December
This guest Screens post was written by Matthew Nerber. Since opening in 2001, the Gene Siskel Film Center has proven…
