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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
