Just when you thought the whodunit sub-genre of mysteries was going to begin and end with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies, we get director Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives. Based […]
This article was written by Thomas Hodgkins The Doc10 Film Festival screened new and unreleased documentaries in Chicago from April 24 to May 3. Accompanied by panels with filmmakers and […]
Brazilian cinema is having its moment just as Iranian, Taiwanese and Korean cinemas did at some point. But what happens after the flavor-of-the-month stops being the flavor-of-the-month? Answer: a select […]
A churlish novelist named Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) arrives at a quaint, quite old hotel in rural Ireland, a place where his parents had their honeymoon. While he could be […]
As I was experiencing the 20-years-later sequel to The Devil Wears Prada the other day, I found myself repeatedly astonished at how much I was enjoying not just the jokes […]
The opening scene of the new thriller Apex is one of the more memorable I’ve seen in a while. In the span of just a few minutes, we learn a […]
Depending on where you stand, writer/director/editor David Lowery’s Mother Mary can be seen as a trippy relationship drama, a full-on psychological horror attack, a story about the lengths an artist […]
When it comes to music biopics, I don’t require or expect historical accuracy—leave it to the documentaries to get everything right. What I do expect is to discover something about […]
Although the trailblazing New York punk legends Lunachicks weren’t technically the first all-female punk band, their iconic looks and undeniably catchy hard-rock tunes always make me feel like they should […]
A bloody throwback to the simplistic and grisly pleasures of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rod Blackhurst’s slasher Dolly is all gas, no breaks. It focuses on a young woman, Macy […]
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. Normal is a little, boring town in the middle of wintry Minnesota, and it seems as though nothing ever happens there. That much […]
A Chicago native (Naperville via Berwyn actually), actor-comedian-screenwriter-director-author-producer Bob Odenkirk is an artist who wears many hats. In fact, at any point in his career when you think you’re fully […]