Although director Gus Van Sant hasn’t made a feature film since 2018’s strange but endearing Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (he also directed six of the eight […]
If you’ve only seen the 1987 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man and never read the 1982 novel (originally published under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, but written in 1973), […]
Saturday, October 18, at the Chicago International Film Festival is a busy day filled with some of the best arthouse cinema of the year; here are the highlights our film […]
In terms of actual box office dollars, brothers and directors Anthony and Joe Russo have to be the most successful filmmaking team in history, with such hits as Captain America: […]
There are few films released in the last few years whose authenticity is a priority as much as director Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing, starring Colman Domingo (Rustin) as John “Divine […]
Examining both the dehumanizing experience of being in prison and the healing power of the creative arts, writer/director Greg Kwedar’s deeply moving drama Sing Sing is based on the real-life […]
At least for now, the Coen Brothers as a filmmaking unit, are no more. Three years ago, Joel Coen adapted Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, and now brother Ethan counters […]
Since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple was first published in 1982, it has been adapted into a film (in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg), a stage musical (in 2005, which […]
I first encountered the bold, scene-stealing energy that is Colman Domingo in 2009, when I stumbled across Spike Lee’s filmed adaptation of Passing Strange, the stage musical about a young […]
Sometimes, a gifted director, a shorter runtime, and a unstoppable period soundtrack is all you need to pivot a franchise in the right direction. For the Transformers universe, the previous […]
One of the reasons this combination remake/sequel/reboot of the gets-better-with-age 1992 film Candyman is tough to discuss is because it’s a film that can’t quite decide what it is or […]
My memory of seeing Zola for the first time a year and a half ago at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival is so vivid, I was convinced certain recollections were […]