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Review: Amy Adams Channels Primal Instincts and Female Identity in Marielle Heller’s Fierce, Triumphant Nightbitch

My entire life, I’ve been indifferent on having children. As a person with a uterus, I of course grew up understanding that time is of the essence and with the […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 4, 2024
    • Film & TV , Film fest , Interview

    Interview: Chicago International Film Festival’s Mimi Plauché on 60th Anniversary Can’t Miss Discoveries and Special Presentations

    We last spoke with Cinema/Chicago Artistic Director Mimi Plauché a year ago, she said that plans were already in the works for this year’s 60th Chicago International Film Festival, which […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 14, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Much Is Lost in Film Adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, Including Essential Elements Like Context, Empathy

    Dear Evan Hansen

    When it premiered on Broadway in late 2016, Dear Evan Hansen, an original new musical with a book by Steven Levenson and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Amy Adams Deserves Better than the Messy Mystery at the Center of The Woman in the Window

    Woman in the Window

    It’s always disappointing when a film doesn’t live up to expectations; it’s exponentially worse when that film comes from a filmmaker who is clearly capable of great things on screen. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 14, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Conservative’s Memoir Clashes with a Liberal’s Filmmaking in Confused, Superficially Emotional Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy

    I’m not here to judge the best-selling memoir of J.D. Vance or his conservative politics the way others seem to do in their reviews of the film adaptation of Hillbilly […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Risky Cheney Biopic VICE, Former VP is the Supervillain

    Vice

    Whether or not you enjoy this biopic on former Vice-President Dick Cheney may depend a great deal on how much you enjoy snark, skimming the surface of a subject who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 25, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Nocturnal Animals, Absolutely Stunning

    After his impressive directing debut A Single Man in 2009, fashion designer Tom Ford’s long awaited return as writer-director, Nocturnal Animals, shows that Ford is not afraid of a complicated, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 18, 2016
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Arrival, A Beautifully Human Story

    I’m not sure if Paramount deliberately set the release date for Arrival for the Friday after Election Day, but in so many ways, it makes sense. What happens in the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 10, 2016
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