Review: Emotional, Beautifully Filmed Blue Bayou Centers on Family, Immigration and Overcoming the Past
Something of a spiritual companion piece to last year’s immigrant story Minari, writer/director/star Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou is the story of a Korean-born man, Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), living in Louisiana […]
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Review: The Planet Enters a New, Uncertain Era in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
As difficult as it is to imagine, the Earth’s condition—both in terms of climate and physical characteristics—is not more a result of human shaping and interference than forces of nature. […]
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EU Film Festival: Week 3 Preview
Time is running out to catch some of the best European films of the year at Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival. Now entering its third week (out of […]
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Review: Tomb Raider Is an Accessible Adventure Story
For a film based on a video game, the first thing you notice about Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t feel like a video game at all. Instead, director Roar […]
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