The Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft has dropped, and it doesn’t seem to be making much of a splash. That’s too bad, because Lara Croft did for gaming […]

One of the coolest things I have had the pleasure of doing is watching classic movies with the soundtrack played live by the Chicago Philharmonic. The live music is much […]

Interview conducted by Binx River Perino. Chicago-based writer Diego Báez is an educator at the City Colleges and a fellow at CantoMundo, the Surge Institute, and the Poetry Foundation’s Incubator […]

Of the countless short films that are made in any given year, it’s always a bit of a mystery how the select few find their way to the film industry’s […]

The Taste of Things is, by all accounts, a film tailor-made for me—and maybe you, too. A French period romance centered on the country’s rich culinary history starring the great […]

True Detective’s conflicts like to play out in the background. The best seasons of True Detective are the ones that give us all the pieces right out the gate and let said pieces melt into its rich settings.

For more than 18 centuries, paper was made with rags—old clothes, sails, and ropes—the same way it had first been fashioned in China. But, by the 19th century, the process of […]

Every time an old play is revived, it inhabits two dimensions—the time of its writing and the time of its revival. You can’t exactly call a restaging of a 2,400+ […]

One-character thrillers are tough to pull off under the best of circumstances, but first-time feature director Matt Vesely and screenwriter Lucy Campbell actually make Monolith feel less like a one-woman […]

Family drama is rarely depicted on screen with quite such bite as Bleeding Love, which casts real-life father and daughter Ewan McGregor and Clara McGregor playing an estranged father and […]

Rather than attempt to tell the complete life story of iconic singer/songwriter Bob Marley, the latest from director Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men, King Richard, Joe Bell), Bob Marley: […]

Unlike some (many?), I haven’t grown weary of superhero films as a genre. What I have grown exhausted by are specifically Sony-made Spider-Verse movies that try to walk the line […]