Chicago cinephiles are lucky to have a number of cinemas that show indie and art house films. The Gene Siskel Film Center is one of our favorites and one of the few […]
Hockney and Francofonia: Art and Artists at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Captain America: Civil War, The Family Fang, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Viva, April and the Extraordinary World
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR The only battle that matters during Captain America: Civil War is deciding which character is the most fun to watch. With relative newbies—such as Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Black […]
Keanu, The Meddler, The Club, Fireworks Wednesday, Papa: Hemingway In Cuba
KEANU The idea is so deceptively simple, it’s a wonder no previous film in the YouTube age has used it to this degree until now. People love videos of kittens doing adorable […]
The Huntsman: Winter’s War, A Hologram for the King, Green Room, Sing Street, Too Late, Elvis & Nixon, The Measure of a Man (La Loi du Marché)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that this follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman is a prequel that shows us where The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) […]
The Jungle Book, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Criminal, The Dark Horse, The Invitation, The Adderall Diaries, In Harmony, The First Monday in May
THE JUNGLE BOOK See it in 3-D, see it as big as you can, and see it in a theater you trust to project it right. Grabbing whole handfuls of both the […]
CIMMfest 2016 Power Combo: Music and Movies About Music
CIMMfest 2016 (Chicago International Movies & Music Festival) runs April 13-17 at various venues. CIMMfest is a four-day showcase of music-related films, concerts, VJ/DJ sets, Q&As, live score performances, industry panels, and […]
The Boss, Hardcore Henry, Miles Ahead, Demolition, Mr. Right, Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête)
THE BOSS Well, it’s better than Tammy. The last time comic dynamo Melissa McCarthy paired creatively with her husband, Ben Falcone, the results were the disastrous, richly unfunny work that is neck […]
Latino Film Festival Opens Friday with 116 Films
The Chicago Latino Film Festival launches its 32nd festival this week with a lineup of 74 feature films and 42 short films from Latin America, the U.S., Spain and Portugal. The festival […]
Grant Park Music Festival Offers Something for Everyone in 2016
Carlos Kalmar returns to his 17th season with the Grant Park Music Festival for an interesting and varied program for the summer of 2016. From an opening display of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at […]
Preview: DOC10, a Festival of Documentary Gems @ the Music Box
The first-ever DOC10 documentary film festival is running this today through Sunday, April 1-3, at the Music Box Theatre and features a collection of 2015-16 high-profile docs from the likes of the late […]
Everybody Wants Some!!, Midnight Special, I Saw the Light, Born to Be Blue, King Georges, Ran
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! With Richard Linklater’s latest, Everybody Wants Some!!, I’ve never had more fun watching a film about guys I never would have hung out with in college. Set in 1980, […]
EU Film Fest: The Final Week
The Chicago European Union Film Festival concludes this week, so if you love watching films with subtitles, this is your chance. See some of the best of European films at the Gene […]
