On the heels of Music Box Theatre’s popular annual Halloween programming, Music Box of Horrors, the theater announced this week a new partnership to bring Los Angeles’ Beyond Fest to […]
One of the city’s most immersive film experiences is back in full force. The 70MM Film Festival at Chicago’s beloved Music Box Theatre runs August 8 through 21, offering two […]
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
Dear Cinnamon is a monthly column based on the idea that all of life’s questions can be answered by art, because, after all, art is the spice of life. To […]
A few years ago I wrote a piece arguing that Local H was one of the hardest working and most consistent rock bands currently in existence. This remains very true. […]
This article was written by Anthony Miglieri. It’s that time of year in Chicago. The heat: 80 degrees or higher. The shorts: seven inches or shorter. The resolution: At least […]
This Friday, in anticipation of filmmaker Wes Anderson’s upcoming Asteroid City, the Music Box Theatre hosts 4 by Wes; from Friday, June 16, to Tuesday, June 20, the Music Box […]
Full Time is set in Paris, that glamorous city of our dreams—but everything that happens to our heroine, Julie (Laure Calamy) happens every day to single moms everywhere trying to keep […]
The Chicago Humanities Festival presented a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s hour-long masterpiece The Kid, at the Music Box Theater on November 5, with whimsical, period intertitles (handwritten, but similar to […]
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ls history now with winners announced and Closing Night over. Last night’s closing feature at the Music Box Theatre was Noel Baumbach’s White Noise, […]
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ends Sunday and Chicago movie fans will be sad to see it go. But Chicago has many other film festivals, which although smaller in […]
The Chicago International Film Festival—the 58th edition of North America’s longest-running competitive international film festival—opens tomorrow night with The Compassionate Spy, a new documentary by renowned local filmmaker Steve James […]