Preview: Film Critic Josh Larsen to Host Cinema Interruptus at Siskel Film Center
In 1969, film critics Roger Ebert and John West hatched the idea of watching a movie like a coach studies game film: frame by frame. Ebert taught the method to […]
Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle
Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real world of Uncut Gems, much as he pulled together a […]
Review: Often Delightful, Sometimes Heartbreaking, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza Is One of the Year’s Best
I was too young in the early to mid-1970s to have any real appreciation or nostalgia for the era today; and I grew up on the east coast, nowhere near […]
Interview: Stand-Out Chicago Actor Pat Healy on Making Westerns, Costumes to Inspire Character and Bonding on the Set of The Pale Door
Chicago-born actor Pat Healy has been working steadily and memorably in film and television for more than 20 years, in parts of every size and shape, beginning with his time […]
Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Continues to Impress with Phantom Thread
I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]
Screens Monthly: What to Watch in December
December means holiday parties and traveling to see family and last-minute gift shopping…any free time you may have is quickly filled up by the demands of the season. If, by […]