Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Baby Ruby Channels Post-Partum Stress, Paranoia into Middling Maternal Thriller

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Interview: Filmmaker Fran Kranz on Making Mass and the Most Honorable, Important Thing People Can Do Right Now

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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 […]

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Interview: Ann Dowd on Making Mass and What She Learned from Years Working in Chicago Theater

Mass

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 […]

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Review: Parents Reckon with Unthinkable Tragedy in Emotional, Challenging School Shooting Drama Mass

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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 […]

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Dispatch: Award Winners and A Few More Films as Sundance Film Festival Wraps

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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 […]

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