Less a pure boxing film and more a tragic biopic with a hopeful ending, Christy chronicles the story of Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney, looking almost unrecognizable in early scenes), who […]
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has had a vision for his telling of author Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for a couple of decades—not just the makeup and production design but also what […]
Sometimes you read history, and other times you have history read to you. And the new film from writer/director James Vanderbilt (the established writer and producer whose only other directing […]
At this point, it should become the law of the land that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is the only one allowed to make Predator sequels. With the streaming-only […]
I’ve come to realize recently that action movies or thrillers set in extremely cold temperatures are so much better than ones set in warmer environments. I don’t know if it’s […]
There are different kinds of crime families. There are the ones we’re more familiar with who live in big cities, dress to the nines, and influence everything from the police […]
Capturing on film a high-stakes gambler’s inner workings, let alone a degenerate gambler with seemingly no bottom in which to bottom out, is tough for any filmmaker—and many have tried. […]
Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, It Was Just an Accident is the latest from Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi (who previously won the award for […]
I’m fairly certain that the point of Anniversary, the new film from Polish-born director Jan Komasa (Good Boy), is to illustrate how even the tightest-knit family can be torn apart […]
The 61st Chicago International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, October 26 with a Chicago premiere screening of Eternity starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner. Ahead of the […]
If one takes a passing glance at Richard Linklater’s filmography, helming a black-and-white, mostly-in-French retelling of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal French New Wave classic Breathless might seem a […]
Fifteen-odd years ago, as a 20-something with a budding interest in independent and international film, I discovered a movie unlike anything I’d ever seen. To be fair, that was happening […]