I’m not 100 percent sure what the purpose of the Australian documentary Mountain is meant to be, but it does feature some of the most breathtakingly beautiful footage of mountains around the […]
One of my absolute favorite films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Hearts Beat Loud, the latest from writer-director Brett Haley (I’ll See You in My Dreams, The Hero), about a […]
You might presume that in a time when men behaving like boys is out of fashion, films depicting such behavior would be on the outs as well. But the new movie Tag […]
This update of the 1972 films about the drug underworld has never met a cliché it didn’t love and embrace. Directed by veteran music video helmer Director X (Rihanna, Drake), SuperFly has […]
Something has changed in the world since writer/director Brad Bird’s The Incredibles hit theaters in 2004—movie theaters have been taken over by superheroes with an alarming regularity. In the last 14 years, […]
Stage Shorts is our new column for Third Coast Review. It’s our way of covering more of Chicago’s fabulous storefront theaters and giving you more choices in the plays you can see. […]
In recent years, writer/director Olivier Assayas has become one of the most reliable filmmakers on the international scene, with such stunners as Demonlover, Clouds of Sils Maria, and last year’s magnificent Personal […]
I’m sure I won’t be the first or only person to say this, but this documentary could not have come at a better time. From the great director Morgan Neville (the Oscar-winning […]
This past weekend, Otherworld Theatre hosted the sixth annual Juggernaut Film Festival at the Music Box Theater. The festival, while not terribly well publicized, featured a huge selection of sci-fi and fantasy films […]
Make no mistake (and I don’t think there’s any chance you will), Hotel Artemis is a B-movie wrapped in an A-list cast of actors who are clearly enjoying the hell out of […]
There’s a scene early on in Ocean’s 8 when Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) is laying out her grand jewelry heist scheme and she rejects the idea of including any men as part of […]
The first Tuesday of every month is a special night for Chicago film fans. Where a typical film festival presents all its selections in a truncated timeline—a long weekend or over the […]
