Film Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Entirely Devoid of Originality
I’ll be honest, I don’t have much to say about the second Jack Reacher movie, because it didn’t say much to me. Considering how I really enjoyed the way the […]
Some of the Best Films to See During Week 2 of the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival
Last Friday, we took a look at some of of the best films screening during the first week of the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival. This week, CIFF continues into […]
Hang Out Around a Campfire and Watch Poltergeist This Friday Night At Northerly Island
The days are getting shorter, the leaves are turning a subtle shade of orange and yellow, and pumpkin spice lattes are inexplicably everywhere you look. Autumn has arrived in Chicago […]
The Accountant Film Review: Mostly Unpredictable and Highly Entertaining
In one of his most interesting roles in recent years, Ben Affleck takes on the persona of Christian Wolff, a math genius who also happens to be on the highly […]
A Bloody Good Time – A Look At Classic Horror Movies
Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees. For some movie fans these are the ultimate names in film horror and with Halloween approaching movie fans may want to rewatch their favorite […]
Music Box of Horrors Returns For Another Year of 35mm Grainy Evil
Every October, for an exhausting but enriching 24 hours, the Music Box Theatre unleashes some of the creepiest, bloodiest, scariest and just plain weirdest horror films in existence, most of […]
Some of the Best Films to See During Week 1 of Chicago International Film Festival
The 52nd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight with the Chicago premiere of the highly acclaimed La La Land. This is the new project […]
Chatting with Mimi Plauché About the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival, begins on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the AMC River East 21 (where every single CIFF screening will be […]
This Week in Art House Cinema: American Honey, The Birth of a Nation and more
American Honey American Honey is a swirling, passionate and chaotic road journey. At nearly three hours, it is an essential epic about youth as well as an intimate portrait of […]
Film Review: The Girl on the Train
There are a few things about this version of The Girl on the Train that I like. First and foremost is the idea of just letting Emily Blunt play full-on, […]
This Week in Art House Cinema: Operation Avalanche, White Girl and more
It’s been a busy week in film. We took a look at Deepwater Horizon, which is a textbook example of how to make a make a disaster movie in modern […]
Netflix’s Easy is Joe Swanberg’s Visual Love Letter to Chicago
You’re probably aware by now that Netflix recently released Easy, filmmaker Joe Swanberg’s latest project. The gist of it is that Easy is an unapologetic love letter to Chicago and […]