EU Film Festival: Week 3 Preview
Time is running out to catch some of the best European films of the year at Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival. Now entering its third week (out of […]
Interview: Jason Isaacs Plays a Man With a Chestful of Medals in The Death of Stalin
If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to film or television in the past 25 years or so, you’ve likely seen actor Jason Isaacs in something. From early appearances […]
Review: The Art and Tradition of Georgian Winemaking in Our Blood Is Wine
Documentaries about passionate people also find a way to move me deeply, and you would be hard pressed to find a more passionate group than families in the Republic of […]
Review: 7 Days in Entebbe Dramatizes a Death-Defying Rescue Mission
A great deal of cinematic attention has been paid to the hijacking/hostage-taking/hostage-rescue mission that took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. In an almost unprecedented reaction, two […]
Review: Love, Simon Captures the Turmoil of High School for a Gay Lead Character
Directed by Greg Berlanti (the landmark The Broken Hearts Club as well as an executive producer on all of those CW network DC superhero shows and “Riverdale”), Love, Simon is […]
Review: Tomb Raider Is an Accessible Adventure Story
For a film based on a video game, the first thing you notice about Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t feel like a video game at all. Instead, director Roar […]
Review: The Leisure Seeker Takes a Sentimental Journey
A few times a year, a film is released that explores the sometimes challenging lives of those of us fortunate enough to age into our senior years. Said films can […]
Review: Gringo Offers Energy, Creative Violence and a Wicked Ride
Sometimes it’s more fun not to have heroes in your movie. Case in point: Gringo, the latest from Australian-born stuntman/coordinator Nash Edgerton, the brother of actor and sometime-filmmaker Joel Edgerton […]
Review: Thoroughbreds Introduces the Wealthy, Privileged…and Murderous
From first-time writer-director Cory Finley comes a unique brand of horror film that isn’t about scares or bodycounts. Thoroughbreds is about the creeping tension that accompanies a murder so meticulously […]
Review: Thrill of the Hunt Missing from Prey at Night
I’ve always been of a firm belief that horror movies should have a point, even if that point is dumb. Many of the slasher movies of the 1980s had a […]
Review: DuVernay’s Talents Wasted on Cluttered, Clunky A Wrinkle In Time
If all you want to know is whether I liked this movie or not, the answer is: No, I did not. And perhaps what made me like it even less […]
Review: Explore a Scrappy, Single-Purpose Life in American Socialist
The primary reason this new documentary from director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, On the Q.T.) exists is to show that there was once a viable candidate for president running […]