For some, the best news about the new film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, The Instigators, is that it’s not a sequel to their original pairing, the 2002 Gus […]
This essay was written by Anthony Miglieri. The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer set off a literal countdown to shave away the moments until the film arrived in […]
When you line up an army of famous friends to do character voices and even manage to get Ryan Reynolds to star as the impish ringleader of a group of […]
For the last couple of weeks, members of the band U2 and others connected to the documentary Kiss the Future (including producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) have been doing […]
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 […]
Although it sometimes feels like we’re watching a history textbook or a lengthy biography, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a sprawling, visually engrossing cinematic lesson in technology, innovation, American hubris, […]
In the mid-1980s, Nike’s basketball shoe division was doing so poorly compared to Adidas and Converse that the company almost shut it down completely. They were struggling to find a […]
The first full day of screenings at the Chicago International Film Festival features a number of impressive films ready to be discovered, including several with Chicago ties. From a thriller […]
Something that becomes clear early on in Stillwater, the latest from director Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, The Station Agent), is that lead character Bill Baker (deftly played by Matt Damon) is […]
We’ve gotten to the point where I just trust director James Mangold to get it right—whatever the subject matter of one of his films, he’ll find a way to tell […]
There are few filmmakers working today who have a more consistent track record at making interesting, thought-provoking treatises on the human condition than Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska). […]
Admittedly, it sounds like a ridiculous idea on paper. Hell, even when you see it executed on the big screen, you almost can’t believe that somebody came up with the […]