Film Review: Logan, An Epic Western Set in a Hopeless Future
Through something like eight films leading up to Logan, Hugh Jackman has given us a few different versions of Wolverine, but they’ve all been rooted in the inherent threat that […]
Film Review: Before I Fall, A Better Concept Than Execution
With a concept that is better than the execution, Before I Fall tells the story of Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch), a high school girl who is forced to relive the […]
Film Review: Land of Mine, A Positively Terrifying Untold Tale of Retribution From World War II
One of the four films that lost to The Salesman at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film came from Denmark, a positively terrifying post-World War II suspense work […]
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 […]
Film Review: Punching Henry, Just Sits There on the Screen
Believe it or not, this micro-budget, semi-autobiographical comedy about the life of singer-comedian Henry Phillips is actually a sequel to his 2009 collaboration with director Gregori Viens, Punching the Clown, […]
Film Review: Dying Laughing, Thrilling Tales of Killing It Onstage and Horror Stories of Bombing
Providing a genuinely unique, sometimes terrifying, usually hilarious vantage point of the life of a stand-up comic, Dying Laughing features dozens of interviews from top American and British comics, walking […]
Film Review: You’re Killing Me Susana, A Troubled Love Story
This odd, dark romantic-comedy is really just an excuse to watch Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, “Mozart in the Jungle”) act up a storm in a story that […]
Film Review – Kedi: Exceptional, Almost Otherworldly
The set up might seem like it’s from a family-friendly film from a major Hollywood studio that wants to counter-program against so many movies aimed at dog lovers. But Turkish-born […]
Film Review: The Girl with All the Gifts, Deeply Terrifying
I’m genuinely shocked and more than a little troubled that a film as near perfect and genuinely original and effective as The Girl with All the Gifts is getting such […]
Film Review: Get Out, A Glimpse Into the Subtle Fear of Being Black in Predominantly White Spaces
The surprise midnight screening at the Sundance Film Festival this year wasn’t much of a surprise by the time it began rolling, but I think it shocked more that a […]