The Chicago International Film Festival returns this week—like really, truly returns!—with dozens of films and events that once again highlight the best in international cinema, emerging talent and homemade productions, too. This […]
With all of his films, writer/director Rian Johnson does something rather remarkable: he takes a genre he loves and studies it until he understands all of its working parts. He discovers what […]
After six full days at a film festival where each day includes screening at least four films (and sometimes more), all the stories, characters and directing styles can start to run together. […]
For those currently enamored with director John Carpenter’s original 1978 Halloween, you’ll likely be even more impressed (and definitely more terrified) by what was his follow-up feature, 1980’s The Fog (followed a […]
I think we can all agree that at its core, a horror movie should be scary on some level. It can be many other things as well, but it needs to scare […]
