Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: As a Movie You’ll Love to Hate, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas Deliver in Deep Water

This one is bonkers. Top to bottom bonkers. More importantly, the return to movie-making by director Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, 9 1/2 Weeks, Jacob’s Ladder), Deep Water) finds ways to […]

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Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Steppenwolf Opens 2021-22 Season With Tracy Letts’ Trio of Virtual Plays Set in an Off-Kilter World

Steppenwolf Theatre adds to its Steppenwolf Now series with three short plays by Tracy Letts, available virtually through October 24. These three pieces, totaling about 40 minutes, create the opening […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Amy Adams Deserves Better than the Messy Mystery at the Center of The Woman in the Window

Woman in the Window

It’s always disappointing when a film doesn’t live up to expectations; it’s exponentially worse when that film comes from a filmmaker who is clearly capable of great things on screen. […]

Lisa Trifone /
Stages, Theater

Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, Tracy Letts’ Bug Exploits Our Skin-Crawling Anxieties

Bug starts out like a Sam Shepard play. Two lost souls in a seedy Oklahoma motel room. Fools for love. Agnes (Carrie Coon) is a waitress who’s dreading her ex-husband’s […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Film, Film & TV, Review, Uncategorized

Review: Filmmaker Greta Gerwig Creates A New Classic in Fresh, Delightful Adaptation of Little Women

Little Women

You may be thinking, for any number of reasons, that a new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is not a great idea, and therefore you aren’t planning […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Fast-Paced Ford v Ferrari Thrills On and Off the Track

Ford v Ferrari

We’ve gotten to the point where I just trust director James Mangold to get it right—whatever the subject matter of one of his films, he’ll find a way to tell […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: The Lovers A Laugh Out Loud Funny Tragicomedy

There’s nothing quite like having some of the best actors available take a difficult subject matter and making sense of it, even if making sense of it reveal how painful […]

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