With the rampant popularity of true-crime stories in all possible mediums, it’s no surprise that the tale of the so-called Boston Strangler finally makes it to a movie screen, loaded […]
From Bobby Farrelly (Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), the co-filmmaker of massive comedies that weren’t always sensitive to the developmentally disabled, the new film Champions feels like […]
As much as I adore most of the films of the late master of horror Wes Craven, I fully admit to being less than enthused about the Scream movies beyond […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]
Sometimes you get advanced notice on an interview that gives you weeks to prepare and fine-tune your questions; sometimes, you get about 24 hours notice to see the movie, prep […]
With so much content to consume on any given platform on any given day, releasing movies these days is more a labor of love than a business endeavor. Some of […]
Admittedly, it’s been a few decades since I read the original Stephen King short story Children of the Corn, which was first adapted into a film in 1984 and spawned […]
For the first two movies in what is now a trilogy of Creed films about boxer Adonis Creed (played by a distractingly ripped Michael B. Jordan), son of fictional Rocky […]
Spread throughout the entire month of March, the 26th Chicago European Union Film Festival continues the annual tradition of celebrating emerging voices and providing a showcase of provocative perspectives from […]
With his previous films, writer/director Christopher Landon (Freaky, the Happy Death Day movies, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, and screenwriter on a bunch of the Paranormal Activity movies) seemed […]
In order to qualify for the Academy Awards for short films (in the live action, animation or documentary categories), a film must meet two main criteria: one, it must play […]
The first-ever film in the Irish language to be nominated (or even short-listed) for an Academy Award for Best International Feature, writer/director Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (based on the […]