Review: Science Fair Highlights Brightest Young Minds and One Fierce Competition
In a time when the importance and benefits of science are questioned and denied at an alarming pace, the superb…
In a time when the importance and benefits of science are questioned and denied at an alarming pace, the superb…
It’s easy to be impressed by someone who completes, or even runs, a traditional marathon. Now try to imagine running…
On Saturday, August 4, downtown’s Gene Siskel Film Center launches the 24th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, “a month-long celebration…
Finally August. Summer is winding down and we’re one month closer to the best time of year: Fall Movie Season.…
En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) is set in the summer of 2016, and in a way, this timing—recent…
It seems like it has been a while since a really effective documentary has struck fear in me for the…
In 1942, after a few years of working together with directing partner Karl Hartl, Henri-Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Diabolique)…
Sometimes it’s just fun to watch a bevy of worthy actors take on a simple, so-so screenplay just to see…
Documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland has made two films—Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, about the legendary fashion editor…
July has just begun and Chicago is already a couple heatwaves deep into this summer. If you’re jonesing for better…
I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever seen a film from Tunisia, but Beauty and the Dogs, the latest from…
Netflix’s slate of April releases contains a fair number of acknowledged classics, including Se7en, Scarface, and Life is Beautiful. If…
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