Rabbids have invaded – no – infested the Mushroom Kingdom. Despite looking like harmless bunnies, Rabbids are annoying sociopathic gremlin-like creatures hell-bent on sowing chaos in everything they encounter. The only way […]
A nice and sunny day greeted North Coast Music Festival attendees to very local-music-friendly start to the day while a late night rainstorm sent the crowds off into vendor booths for […]
September is a hectic month for theater in Chicago. Although summer is no longer the slow season it used to be, September sees a lot of season openers and just plain opening […]
In a new monthly series in the Screens section, we’ll highlight some of the film happenings around Chicago, from major theatrical openings to arthouse screenings and independent events. This month, Darren Aronofsky’s […]
North Coast Music Festival: Summer’s Last Stand has finally arrived! The eclectic festival started out their Labor Day weekend stay at Union Park with a nice mix of EDM, funk, soul, and […]
On the first Tuesday of every month, the Midwest Independent Film Festival hosts one of the most unique film events in the city. Month after month, presenters put together programs that shine […]
A film so authentic in its portrayal of the slow, painful dissolution of a marriage, France’s After Love takes a fly-on-the-wall approach at observing the emotionally destructive dance taking place between Marie […]
Veteran cinematographer-turned-first-time-director Michael Barrett (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and in-demand screenwriter Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch) combine scary forces with Temple, a U.S.-Japanese co-production that pays homage to Japanese […]
Some sequels are a natural extension of what has come before. Others are an exercise in assembling nearly all of the cast from the previous film and finding ways to cram them […]
The film that is opening in the most theaters this week is actually a 40-year-old masterpiece from writer-director Steven Spielberg. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about this […]
A little gem of a suspense thriller is being given a limited release this week from director/co-writer Dan Glaser. Although the story is much different than the currently in release Wind River, […]
I’m still not entirely sure why writer-director-actor Lake Bell (who last helmed the appealing In A World…) chose the making of a documentary about marriage as the framework for her second film, […]