When filmmaker Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) prepares to release a new film, people…
Sometimes you get advanced notice on an interview that gives you weeks to prepare and fine-tune your questions; sometimes, you…
I have a long history with Dave Franco that goes back to a time when I was invited to visit…
Editor’s Note: this interview contains mild spoilers and includes discussion of suicide. Regardless of how the film may have ultimately…
In 2007, writer/director/editor Jason Eisener won a contest for directing the best grindhouse trailer for the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration…
For most of his career as a documentary filmmaker, director Ryan White (Good Ol’ Freda, Serena, Ask Dr. Ruth, Assassins)…
Much like his first film, the documentary Pier Kids, writer/director Elegance Bratton’s debut narrative film, The Inspection, is drawn very…
One of the most talked-about film from this year’s Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Grand Jury Prize), Nanny…
With a two-year-plus pandemic in our collective rearview mirrors, the 58th Chicago International Film Festival is poised to take up…
Living most of my adult life in Chicago, the story and legacy of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Chicago-native Emmett…
Before breaking out in 2018’s Eighth Grade, 19-year-old Elsie Fisher was probably best known for voicing one of Gru’s daughters…
For years, many people only knew comic performer (and Northwestern University theater graduate) Billy Eichner as the crazed street interviewer…
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