If you know anything about me, you should know that I love live theater, and my favorite subsector of live theater is the works of William Shakespeare. But the only […]
This is a good month for filmmakers Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. Later this month sees the release of the terrific dark horror/comedy/love story Over Your Dead Body (an English-language […]
If you like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie or its 2023 predecessor (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the second-biggest film of that year, situated squarely between Barbie and Oppenheimer), then […]
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. The late ‘60s were a glorious time for music. A big force in that gloriousness was the UK. Said nation produced dozens of […]
The Chicago Philharmonic returned to play a live soundtrack in the Philms at the Auditorium series, with guest conductor Thiago Tiberio on Saturday night. The occasion was the 45th anniversary […]
When your script is in doubt, add a time-travel plot line. That’s what it feels like writer/director BenDavid Grabinski (Happily) deduced could save his decidedly average crime comedy Mike & […]
It’s shocking to consider that there was a time not that long ago when this film and Ready or Not 2 were coming out on the same weekend, instead of […]
Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a troubled 13-year-old girl living with her single mother (the great Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani, Paterson) in coastal France as the earth is dealing with multiple […]
I’ll fully admit: I have a soft spot for fashion-related documentaries, probably typified by The September Issue, which admittedly is more of a doc about publishing…but still. And while I […]
The subject of AI-driven technology means different things to different people; in fact, some people label something AI when it actually isn’t, meaning that there are also various levels of […]
Actor Lionel Boyce is likely best known by most Chicagoans as the kind-hearted pastry chef Marcus Brooks on the series The Bear, for which he received an Emmy nomination in […]
Based on the true story of a year in the life of Amanda Ogle (played ferociously by recent Oscar-nominee Rose Byrne), Tow tells the story of the Seattle woman living […]