Author Brian Pinkerton is a lifelong resident of the Chicago area, growing up on, as he puts it, “Bozo’s Circus and Ray Rayner…Creature Features and Cubs baseball.” With 12 […]
Hell in a Handbag’s New York-bound revival of its 2019 production The Drag Seed has lots to say about LGBTQ culture and the advances that have been made in the last 40 […]
Hadestown is a tragedy of human love and suffering and it will make you happy with its joyous, percussive music and slick dance performances. The musical production, based on the […]
Now in its 25th year, the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Chicago European Union Film Festival returns to in-person screenings March 4-17, this year with France claiming the opening night slot […]
River City Girls is becoming a popular franchise, with its initial first release being a critical success and a sequel on the way, but the characters of Misako and Kyoko […]
Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way: earlier this week Bandcamp announced that it would be joining Epic Games. A big emphasis was placed on the […]
Editor’s Note: this review was originally published during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival After his quiet 2017 masterpiece Columbus, filmmaker Kogonada moves tangentially into the world of heartfelt science fiction with After […]
From director Amy Poehler comes the meticulously researched Lucy and Desi, which explores not only the work of the well-known married comedy team of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, but […]
Grief, missed opportunities and the lingering love of those we’ve lost all combine in Mattie Do’s The Long Walk, a surreal, time-warping fable about the choices we make and their ripple […]
It’s probably impossible to know how many short films are made in a single year. From student films to viral TikToks, the format is often a filmmaker’s way in to […]
The movie industry never seems to tire of making films about people traveling to and/or stuck in the Arctic. Many of these works are quite good, including Against the Ice, […]
We are living in a time of chaos and war while—maybe—emerging from a plague. There is no better balm for my soul than an evening in meditation on movement by […]
