Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Kenneth Branagh Returns To Agatha Christie, In Front of and Behind the Camera, for A Haunting in Venice

Based loosely on the Agatha Christie novel Hallowe’en Party and once again adapted by Michael Green, A Haunting in Venice sees director and star Kenneth Branagh taking on the role […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Christopher Nolan Gets Personal, Emotional and Political in a Sprawling, Engrossing Oppenheimer

Although it sometimes feels like we’re watching a history textbook or a lengthy biography, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a sprawling, visually engrossing cinematic lesson in technology, innovation, American hubris, […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Hercule Poirot Returns in Death on the Nile, an Elevated, Elegant Mystery

Taking a slightly more serious, but no less stylized, approach to the crime-solving adventures of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (played as he was in the Murder on the Orient Express […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Filmmaker Kenneth Branagh Makes His Best, Most Personal Film Yet in Belfast

If nothing else, Kenneth Branagh is a productive filmmaker. Of the 20-odd films he’s directed (many of which he’s also written) over the last few decades, some of them have […]

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Dispatch: Week of Chicago Int’l Film Festival Features Filmmaker Tributes, Even More Compelling Cinema

The Chicago International Film Festival is well underway, with screenings happening at venues around the city and a full slate of films available via the Festival’s virtual platform, too. Through […]

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Film, Film & TV, Film fest

Interview: Chicago International Film Festival’s Mimi Plauché on a Hybrid Fest, Hidden Gems and Helping Audiences Connect to Films

The French Dispatch

With the city of Chicago—not to mention the world, the nation, and the movie-going public—in various stages of pandemic living (Chicago specifically and Illinois in general seems to be doing […]

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Review: Visual Gymnastics, Laid-Back Cool and a Signature Grand Scale in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet

Tenet

In many ways, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s latest blend of action, science fiction and all things massively scaled, Tenet, is a greatest hits package for the filmmaker, in all the good […]

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