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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The long-delayed (due to Relativity Media’s financial woes) new film from director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentleman Broncos) turns out to be a surprisingly moving love story couched […]

The cries that director Tim Burton has righted his sagging string of recent efforts (Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes) with his adaptation of Ransom Riggs’s novel Miss Peregrine’s […]

The problem I’ve often had with films directed by Peter Berg, even the ones I’ve liked, have been that he feels the need to have all the knobs turned up […]

The Dressmaker Those few times a year when a film escapes from Australia and makes its way stateside, you can usually count on it being a familiar story told through […]

Outside of the setting and the age of the competitors, Disney’s latest live-action work, Queen of Katwe, is structured using many of the same beats as the most of their […]

Allow me to draw your attention to the directing credits on the new animated film Storks. The first name belongs to live-action feature veteran Nicholas Stoller (who also wrote the […]

Let’s just get this out of the way off the bat: there is no better version of this story than the original, original version—Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai. Six […]

The second longest-running film festival of its kind, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival presents nearly 40 features and numerous shorts from around the world during its 2016 edition. […]

SNOWDEN Even if the story presented in Snowden were 100 percent fiction, it would still be a fascinating tale to watch unfold. As directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, Snowden […]