Review: Knife+Heart is a Pulsing, Captivating ’70s-Era Slasher
Knife + Heart, a new French film with a decidedly retro vibe, is not for the faint of…well, the faint of heart. Set in 1979 and starring Vanessa Paradis as […]
Review: Love and the Passage of Time in Masterful Ash Is Purest White
There is such haunting truth-telling about the way in which certain fated relationships work in the latest from the great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Ash Is Purest White, that you’re […]
Review: The Highwaymen Is Perfectly OK for a Movie Night In
In an alternate version of the current cinematic landscape, one where a film’s best chance at finding an audience is strictly through a theatrical release, a film like The Highwaymen might just […]
Preview: Virginia, a Short Film About Biking and Dancing, Premiering at On the Route Bicycles in Lakeview
Claire Bauman, by her own estimation, is someone who would love Virginia Woolf. She went to Vassar. She’s into experimental theater. She’s interested in history, and especially interested in the […]
Review: 1977’s Between the Lines Features an Impressive Cast in Workplace Drama
This lesser-known curiosity from one of the guiding female voices in independent film in the 1970s and 1980s, Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Crossing Delancy), 1977’s Between the Lines is […]
Review: A Morality Play At Sea in Styx
The idea behind the German production Styx is so deceptively simple, and therefore, so highly complex and loaded with relevant ideas, that it’s awe-inspiring how it all comes together. The […]
Review: A Fascinating, Frustrating Portrait of Politics in The Brink
Coming on the heals of American Dharma, director Errol Morris’s documentary profile on political strategist Steve Bannon, it would seems strange that yet another Bannon doc is making its way […]
Review: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Gets A New, Scary Adaptation
One of the problems the makers of the latest adaptation of author Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (and it’s not really a problem at all) is that most people going to […]
Review: Shazam! Injects a Bolt of Electricity into DC Comics Universe
For those who thought Aquaman was still too dark and scary for their delicate sensibilities, the latest from the DC Comics cinematic universe, Shazam!, should be enough of a safe […]
Review: A Tragic Day Recounted Impressively in Hotel Mumbai
Taking a similar approach as 22 July earlier this year (minus the courtroom drama of that film), Hotel Mumbai perilously walks us through the tense and bloody day in 2008 when […]
35th Chicago Latino Film Festival Opens, Features World, Chicago Premieres Through April 11
As one impressive international film festival wraps up, another is just getting underway. On Thursday, the 35th Chicago Latino Film Festival begins with a gala screening of Yuli, a biopic […]
Review: Originality and Confidence Mark a Strong Debut Feature in Starfish
A mix of genres that include science fiction, horror and a deeply personal psychological drama, Starfish, the feature film debut from writer/director A.T. White, is a confident, emotion-driven work that […]