Let’s Support Some Local Acts on Another Bandcamp Friday!
It’s another Bandcamp Friday! Bandcamp has been waiving their fees on the site on the very first Friday of the month for months now, giving the music community a much […]
Review: Delightfully Life-Affirming Dick Johnson Is Dead Offers Lessons on Facing Loss
With more than 50 credits to her name (according to IMDb), cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has made a career of observing the world around her and capturing it for us to […]
Review: Despite Some Clunky Moments, Once Upon a River Delivers a Beautifully Filmed Coming-of-Age Drama
On 2016’s “Margo,” Haroula Rose mournfully sings: “Your daddy brought you to the ways of the wild / Your mother she left when you reached a certain height” The song […]
Review: With Its Pretzel-like Logic, Time Travel Sci-Fi Drama 2067 Is Entertaining but Forgettable
As far as low-budget, high-concept science fiction films go (and I feel like we’ve been getting a great many of them over the last six months), the Australian production 2067 […]
Review: A Sanitized, if Musically Rich, Portrait of the Much-Beloved Performer in Herb Alpert Is…
As something of a specialist in documentaries about famous people, director John Scheinfeld (Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, The US vs John Lennon) has taken on one of his […]
Review: Rashida Jones Shines, Bill Murray Charms in Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks
There are times where films about the distance between parents and their grown children don’t have to make one party or the other the villain. And in the case of […]
Review: A Worthy Chronicle of Female Spies in WWII, A Call to Spy Tries to Do Too Much
A few years ago, a couple of great World War II films were released; even more than 70 years after the war ended, it remains a deep source of narratives […]
Review: Against the Moon Fails to Grab
I love deckbuilders. They weren’t always my favorite types of game to play physically—learning and keeping track of a set of often esoteric rules can be a drain mentally– but […]
Review: A Sharp Sci-Fi Premise Meets Brutal, Gruesome Thrills in Possessor
The premise of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is the sort of sci-fi make believe that’s so outlandish, a bit of comfort can be found in this otherwise unsettling, intense film. The sort […]
Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 10/1 and Beyond
It’s another great weekend in Chicago with plenty of things to do at home! Chicago has been opening up more and more, but that doesn’t mean you should take it […]
Review: With a Strong, Contemporary Cast, The Boys in the Band Revisits a Turning Point in Queer History
Looking back, I probably first saw the 1970 screen adaptation of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band sometime in the late 1980s. And knowing me, […]
“Groceries” Leads the Way to Rich Jones & Montana Macks’ Collaborative Album How do you sleep at night?
Despite all the bad news piling on in the past few weeks, the announcement of a new album from Rich Jones and producer Montana Macks is a breath of relief. […]