For those who thought Aquaman was still too dark and scary for their delicate sensibilities, the latest from the DC Comics cinematic universe, Shazam!, should be enough of a safe space for […]
Taking a similar approach as 22 July earlier this year (minus the courtroom drama of that film), Hotel Mumbai perilously walks us through the tense and bloody day in 2008 when a well-organized […]
As one impressive international film festival wraps up, another is just getting underway. On Thursday, the 35th Chicago Latino Film Festival begins with a gala screening of Yuli, a biopic on the […]
A mix of genres that include science fiction, horror and a deeply personal psychological drama, Starfish, the feature film debut from writer/director A.T. White, is a confident, emotion-driven work that begins as […]
The latest in what is going to be a long line of Disney animated properties being made into live-action remakes, Dumbo is depressing. I thought long and hard about it, and that’s the […]
The 22nd Chicago European Union Film Festival is almost over, with just one more week of screenings remaining. Thankfully, there’s still plenty to see whether you’ve put off checking it out until […]
The last year or so has been a hell of a time for actor Alexander Skarsgård, who seems to average a movie every other month, including the Netflix original Hold the Dark […]
For reasons I’ll never quite understand, a small section of the British film industry has been obsessed for roughly 70 years with telling love stories that take place during and after World […]
It will never cease to amaze me when a first-time feature director unleashes something as confident and sure-handed as Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s The Mustang, which joins an unexpected series of horse-related films […]
What can one person do to combat the forces of climate change and globalized industry? Quite a bit, as Benedikt Erlingsson would have us believe in Woman at War, the story of a […]
There’s a line spoken early in Us, the sophomore feature from writer/director Jordan Peele (Get Out) that is important but doesn’t give anything away about the film’s true nature. It’s spoken by […]
Gene Siskel Film Center’s robust European Union Film Festival continues into its third week with ever more interesting offerings; it’s a credit to the jam-packed schedule that just as one impressive selection […]
