“I didn’t plan any of this shit.” That was Paul Reiser’s hilarious and refreshingly honest assessment of the long—and still ongoing—list of accomplishments in a career spanning over four decades. […]
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
Filmmaker Scott Derrickson is something of a oddity in the movie-making world. He doesn’t seem to make movies with the intent of earning loads of money from them. I’m sure […]
Director and cinematographer RaMell Ross first came onto my radar as the director behind the exquisite Oscar-nominated 2018 documentary feature Hale County This Morning, This Evening. But it’s his latest […]
The new docudrama The Fire Inside tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (Ryan Destiny), one of the greatest female boxers in history and the first female boxer to win […]
The End marks the narrative film directing debut from Oscar-nominated documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, whose one-two punch was 2012’s The Act of Killing and 2014’s The Look of Silence. The former […]
Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel has delivered a fairly eclectic range of films in his relatively short time as a director, beginning with 2011’s ultra-violent but critically acclaimed Snowtown. He followed […]
Now in theaters, Moana 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the 2016 original story set in ancient Polynesia, in which a terrible curse incurred by the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Although many who have seen the original 1978 Superman might not remember, the film actually opens with a trial on Krypton led by Jor-El (Marlon Brando), during which three traitorous […]