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Preview: The Salt Shed Is Back for More Tears with Crying at the Shed 2026

What is this salty discharge? The average human tear contains about 2% electrolytes. Especially emotional droplets need even more salt ions to maintain balance in the eye. Therefore, there is […]

  • Anthony Miglieri
  • February 12, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Delivers a Great Action Pic in Timely, Insightful Adaptation One Battle After Another

    In any other action movie, the emphasis on a revolutionary would be on his/her glory days of radical acts, like blowing up buildings, freeing political prisoners, etc. But in writer/director […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Preview: Film Critic Josh Larsen to Host Cinema Interruptus at Siskel Film Center

    In 1969, film critics Roger Ebert and John West hatched the idea of watching a movie like a coach studies game film: frame by frame. Ebert taught the method to […]

  • Anthony Miglieri
  • November 26, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle

    Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real world of Uncut Gems, much as he pulled together a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Often Delightful, Sometimes Heartbreaking, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza Is One of the Year’s Best

    Licorice Pizza

    I was too young in the early to mid-1970s to have any real appreciation or nostalgia for the era today; and I grew up on the east coast, nowhere near […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Stand-Out Chicago Actor Pat Healy on Making Westerns, Costumes to Inspire Character and Bonding on the Set of The Pale Door

    The Pale Door

    Chicago-born actor Pat Healy has been working steadily and memorably in film and television for more than 20 years, in parts of every size and shape, beginning with his time […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 25, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Continues to Impress with Phantom Thread

    I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 10, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV

    Screens Monthly: What to Watch in December

    December means holiday parties and traveling to see family and last-minute gift shopping…any free time you may have is quickly filled up by the demands of the season. If, by […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 1, 2017
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