It’s Oscars Night in Chicago!
The annual Academy Awards night is just around the corner and that means it’s time to figure out where you’ll be watching this year’s show. To honor cinema’s greatest night, film […]
Race, The Witch, Touched with Fire, Rolling Papers, 70MM Film Festival
RACE As connect-the-dots biopics go, the Jesse Owens story Race isn’t bad, primarily because it’s not afraid to venture off the dots every so often, although not always successfully. What […]
Deadpool, Zoolander 2, Where to Invade Next, In the Shadow of Women
DEADPOOL The fact that this movie even exists seems to be the result of sheer will power. Not to get lost in the history of the project, but some of […]
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Is A Plodding Affair
The pace of modern culture is almost unrelentingly swift. The lifecycle of an average piece of entertainment is not blessed with a half-life of more than a few months. As […]
Kung Fu Panda 3, Son of Saul
Hey, everyone. Due to my recently concluded time at the Sundance Film Festival and an upcoming trip to London, I’m missing a fair number of press screenings, so I likely […]
It’s Real Film (Not Digital) in Music Box’s 70MM Film Fest
The Music Box Theatre has hosted a number of different special screenings, Midnight movies and movie marathons during its illustrious history. I suggest film connoisseurs go to at least one […]
Dirty Grandpa, The 5th Wave, Synchronicity, All Things Must Pass, Mojave
DIRTY GRANDPA I think the record stands firm that for decades, Robert De Niro had been one of the greatest deliverers of four-letter words in the history of film. Sure, […]
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Mustang, Lamb, The Benefactor, Moonwalkers
13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI To say that the events leading up to and during the Battle of Benghazi were confusing and complex doesn’t even begin to cover […]
History Museum to Show Algren Documentary + The Man with the Golden Arm
Algren: The Movie, a documentary about Nelson Algren, the icon of the Chicago literary underworld, will be screened at the Chicago History Museum at 6pm on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The […]
The Revenant, Anomalisa, The Forest, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diablo, Drone, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Western & The Mask
THE REVENANT I suppose if you walk into The Revenant thinking director and co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams) is pretentious about being an artist and a creative force […]
Rahm and Spike: Blood Brothers?
Chicago has been at the epicenter of social and political discussions over the past year. From corruption in the school board to the incessant levels of violence that run through […]
Stranger Than Fiction: Documentary Premieres at Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center is offering Stranger Than Fiction, a showcase of documentary premieres, both serious and quirky, through Feb. 3. The series of 10 films includes the story […]