EU Film Festival, Week 3: Lost Lottery Tickets and an Olive Tree in a Spooky Forest
Some of the best films you’ll have a chance to see all year are being screened this month at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Most of them are screened only […]
EU Film Festival: Films We Love (Mostly) for Week 2, March 10-16
It’s week two of the European Union Film Festival, which continues through March 30 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. For week two, we have recaps […]
European Union Film Festival: Our Picks for Week 1, March 3-9
The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center and runs through March 30. The festival, with 62 new feature films representing all 28 EU […]
62 Feature Films to Be Screened at 20th Annual European Union Film Festival
The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center and runs through March 30. The festival, with 62 new feature films representing all […]
Celebrate Gender Diversity in Cinema at the Chicago Feminist Film Festival
Last night at the Academy Awards, something odd happened. Brie Larson, who won an Oscar last year for Best Actress for her portrayal of a survivor of sexual assault in […]
Couch-Watch Shakespeare 400 Chicago Shows with The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by […]
Hang Out Around a Campfire and Watch Friday the 13th and Casper This Friday Night At Northerly Island
The Cubs are in the World Series for the first time in over 70 years and the frenzy surrounding them is almost inescapable. Halloween isn’t until Monday, so what are […]
Some of the Best Films to See During Week 2 of the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival
Last Friday, we took a look at some of of the best films screening during the first week of the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival. This week, CIFF continues into […]
Music Box of Horrors Returns For Another Year of 35mm Grainy Evil
Every October, for an exhausting but enriching 24 hours, the Music Box Theatre unleashes some of the creepiest, bloodiest, scariest and just plain weirdest horror films in existence, most of […]
Some of the Best Films to See During Week 1 of Chicago International Film Festival
The 52nd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight with the Chicago premiere of the highly acclaimed La La Land. This is the new project […]
Chatting with Mimi Plauché About the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival, begins on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the AMC River East 21 (where every single CIFF screening will be […]
Here Are Some of the Best Films to See at Reeling Film Festival
The second longest-running film festival of its kind, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival presents nearly 40 features and numerous shorts from around the world during its 2016 edition. […]