Review: A Family’s Reunion Turns Terrifying in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
One of the things you should know going into Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is that it’s not really a mummy movie at all. It’s certainly not anything like the 1932 […]
Interview: Japanese Filmmaker Hikari on the Real Companies Renting Friends, Mourners and More That Inspired New Film Rental Family
In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]
Dispatch: Mid-Week at Chicago Int’l Film Festival Highlighted by Special Guests, Hidden Gems and More
Hitting the mid-week mark, the Chicago International Film Festival boasts special guests and anticipated films on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21 and 22; here are the highlights our film critics […]
Review: Martin Scorsese Proves His Mastery of Cinema and Storytelling in American Epic Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann’s best-selling book Killers of the Flower Moon was primarily centered on the true story of the Osage Nation in the years immediately following the discovery of oil under […]
Review: In Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Brendan Fraser Delivers a Career-Best Performance of Transformation and Grace
A difficult watch at times (but not for the reasons many are saying), director Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale (based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter, who also wrote […]