Review: Baby Ruby Channels Post-Partum Stress, Paranoia into Middling Maternal Thriller
Perhaps I’ve just seen too many films in my lifetime in which a housewife and/or mother is driven to the edge of sanity or has a full-blown mental collapse simply […]
Review: Like the Restaurant Culture it Aims to Skewer, The Menu Is More Style than Substance
I haven’t been lucky enough to manage a seat at Alinea, Chicago’s only three-star Michelin restaurant, but friends who’ve been still talk about the experience years later. They remember the […]
Review: Retro-Futuristic and Sincerely Romantic, Strawberry Mansion Is Wholly Unique
Strawberry Mansion—writer-directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s wildly surreal, charmingly offbeat indie—is part dystopian sci-fi, part storybook fantasy, and part quirky horror, the sort of mishmash movie that calls to […]
Interview: Filmmaker Fran Kranz on Making Mass and the Most Honorable, Important Thing People Can Do Right Now
One of the most talked-about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Mass, the writing/directing debut of actor Fran Kranz, which thoughtfully examines the journey of two sets of […]
Interview: Ann Dowd on Making Mass and What She Learned from Years Working in Chicago Theater
One of the most talked-about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the writing/directing debut of actor Fran Kranz, Mass, which thoughtfully examines the journey of two sets of […]
Review: Parents Reckon with Unthinkable Tragedy in Emotional, Challenging School Shooting Drama Mass
Known primarily as an actor who pops up in a lot of Joss Whedon TV and film properties, Fran Kranz has now proven himself to be a surprisingly effective writer/director […]
Dispatch: Award Winners and A Few More Films as Sundance Film Festival Wraps
The Sundance Film Festival wrapped last week, and even though it was entirely virtual this year, it turns out it still takes just as long to recover from long days […]