Review: A Star is Born in Baz Luhrmann’s Busy, Imperfect and Wildly Entertaining Elvis
It seems only right to preface this review by acknowledging that Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, that frenetic, overdramatic, brilliantly…
Review: Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Aims to Understand a Massive Disaster Through Newly Uncovered Sources
Filmmaker James Jones (On the President’s Orders, The Riots 2011) has a history of making documentaries about events of the…
Review: Chicago Philharmonic Revives the Roar of Marvel’s Black Panther for Juneteenth
The Chicago Theatre started out as a movie palace that could hold more than 3000 viewers for the silent films…
Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth, On Learning the Dance Steps as You Go
Filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) is only 24 years old, yet he’s delivered one of the most emotionally mature, fully formed…
Review: The Franchise’s Sixth Installment, Jurassic World Dominion Makes a Case for Sticking to the Original
When it was released in 1993, one of the reasons Jurassic Park became the mega hit it remains today is…
Review: Relative, a Genuinely Chicago Film, Tells the Story of a Rogers Park Family Going Through Change
Relative weaves together the stories of a Rogers Park family--the progressive parents, their adult children and their children--as change affects them all.
Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle
Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real…
Interview: Fire Island Filmmakers on Inspiration from Austen, Casting Comedy Legend Margaret Cho and the Chance for a Trip Back to the Island
On a broader scale, director Andrew Ahn’s new comedy Fire Island is about a group of multicultural gay men who…
Review: Low-Grade and Truly Indie, Watcher Is Sharp and Highly Effective
One of the highlights of last year’s horror anthology V/H/S/94 was director Chloe Okuno’s creature-feature segment “Storm Drain.” Now making her feature-length…
Review: Eiffel Reimagines Building Paris’s Iconic Landmark as an Act of Grand Romance
I’ll give the makers of Eiffel credit for their honesty in an opening title card that proclaims the film is…
Review: White Elephant Is Not a Good Movie, But a Stacked Cast Makes it Watchable
In all likelihood, you haven’t seen any of director/co-writer and prolific action filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson’s movies. But with a…
Review: Passable Action Scenes and Mild Politics Make Interceptor Less than a Must-Watch
I have to believe two things after watching the new nuclear terrorist threat thriller Interceptor. One is that our first…
