If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to advance reviews on this film, then you know that it’s one of the worst-reviewed movies of 2018—and deservedly so. Writer/director Dan Fogelman is […]
The latest from documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 11/9 (the date refers to the day in 2016 when we all learned that Donald Trump would be America’s next president and that polls […]
The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a very bad title for a movie. The unfortunate tagline—”This house knows what makes you tick.”—is even worse. Fortunately, the film to which both […]
With 31 features and 19 short film programs being screened—all of them Chicago premieres—the 36th edition of Reeling (the second-oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world) runs Sept. 20-30 at a handful […]
In my first dispatch from Toronto International Film Festival, a selection of six films offered a diverse taste of the hundreds of films screened at the 2018 edition (which officially runs through […]
Chaos bathed in menacing, colorful light, featuring a lead performer who spends much of the film’s two-hour running time soaked in dark red blood, Mandy is that film horror fans have been hearing […]
“Who is willing to try to save a community that’s destined to die?” When I heard long-time Englewood resident Deborah Payne utter these desperate words near the end of the new documentary […]
My issues with the new documentary American Chaos have more to do with the timing of its release than anything else. The film was shot during the six months leading up to the […]
Although director Paul Feig’s go-to milieu is female-driven comedies (Bridesmaids, The Heat, the recent remake of Ghostbusters), there is something thrillingly bold, dark and eventually thrilling about his latest work, the deceptively […]
The most compelling part of White Boy Rick, the true story of a Detroit teenager who became a hustler, an FBI informant and a drug kingpin all before the age of 16, comes at […]
Positioned as it is in early September, the Toronto International Film Festival has long been a first stop for films destined for Oscar glory by the end of any given year. What’s […]
The Music Box Theatre loves to find reasons to play films in 70mm. In the last year, the venue has done one-off screenings of both Streets of Fire and Howard the Duck in the […]
