From Chicago-based director Kyle Henry (Fourplay) and screenwriter Carlos Treviño comes Rogers Park, a relationship drama about the two couples living in the northside Chicago neighborhood over the course of […]
Here’s hoping that we have enough Star Wars and superhero movies in our yearly science-fiction regimen to satiate that base-level need, and that there’s room in our movie diets for […]
As part of its quarterly Dinner & Docs @ The Davis series, the Davis Theater (4614 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago) is featuring the Chicago theatrical premiere of the recently […]
You can read the signs or ignore them, but they won’t fade away. Mercury in Retrograde, from local writer/director Michael Glover Smith, takes three couples out of their city life to […]
This is a simple formula. If you love animation, Aardman Studios, comedies, soccer and/or movies in general, then you really have no excuse not to see Aardman’s latest, Early Man. […]
Jonas Carpignano’s sophomore feature, A Ciambra, follows Pio (Pio Amato), a Romani kid in southern Italy who’s doing his damn best to grow up as fast as he can. No […]
Almost a year ago exactly, first-time feature director Jordan Peele released Get Out, as significant a film as you could imagine to usher in an administration that seems to have […]
A Princeton, Illinois, native who now lives in Chicago, Samantha Martin is proof positive that sticking with your passion and becoming the best at what you do—no matter how seemingly […]
Watching this long-delayed American musical (the film was supposed to be released in 2015) set in India, starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson (but shot before she became an Oscar winner), I […]
After a painful divorce, Ben (Thomas Middleditch from “Silicon Valley”) has decided he is inconsolable and attempts to kill himself. But each time he tries, something unexpected keeps him from […]
Short films still have a nearly impossible time finding an audience outside of a film festival setting (or even during one). The good news is that over the last couple […]
I’ll give filmmaker Clint Eastwood points for trying something different, even if it doesn’t always work. He’s been acting and directing for so long that he’s seemingly able to spot […]