For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is a gift by playwright Sarah Ruhl to her actor mother, Kathleen, who plays herself in this three-part family story. The 85-minute play […]

We’ve been curating your weekends for quite a while, how about we give the beginning of your week some love? These Fresh Start To Your Week posts will highlight some […]

Chairlift let its music speak for itself Friday night at Park West in Chicago on its farewell tour. Normally I would comment on lighting, costumes, size of the venue and […]

A bit on the dry side and a darling at the recently ended European Union Film Festival, Cézanne et Moi, the latest work from writer-director Danièle Thompson (La bûche, Avenue […]

I will never fully understand films that contribute to the deification of golf or other sports. In certain books but especially in cinema, golf is treated as if its players […]

Directed and edited by veteran British documentary editor David Fairhead, this exceedingly thorough, educational, and often quite nerve wracking documentary about NASA’s Houston-based Mission Control goes into a great deal […]

In many ways, it doesn’t seem fair to confront a man deep in his 60s about a something he did when he was just 19 years old. But not everyone […]

Celebrated French director François Ozon (The New Girlfriend, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) turns his attention briefly away from France, toward a small town in post-World War I Germany, focusing […]

A great companion piece to the recently released Netflix doc series Five Came Back, about American filmmakers’ role during World War II, Their Finest takes a look at how the […]

Exhibitionism lands at Navy Pier this weekend, rockin out the vibrant history and persona of the band the world has come to know as The Rolling Stones. The exhibit, chocked […]

I love the way the mind of writer-director Nacho Vigalondo works. He selects a genre that he clearly loves and wonders “What if we took the tropes of this type […]

So what did I learn from The Fate of the Furious (installment eight of The Fast and the Furious series, in case you’re counting, which you know you are)? When […]