Much like his first film, the documentary Pier Kids, writer/director Elegance Bratton’s debut narrative film, The Inspection, is drawn very specifically from his real life, which included being a young, […]
One of the most talked-about film from this year’s Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Grand Jury Prize), Nanny stars the Senegalese-American actress Anna Diop. The actor is probably […]
With a two-year-plus pandemic in our collective rearview mirrors, the 58th Chicago International Film Festival is poised to take up residency in several venues around the city October 12-23, including […]
Living most of my adult life in Chicago, the story and legacy of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Chicago-native Emmett Till in Mississippi never really fades away. With so many […]
Before breaking out in 2018’s Eighth Grade, 19-year-old Elsie Fisher was probably best known for voicing one of Gru’s daughters in the Despicable Me movies. Although she’s acted in quite […]
For years, many people only knew comic performer (and Northwestern University theater graduate) Billy Eichner as the crazed street interviewer on his wildly popular internet series “Billy on the Street,” […]
Writer/director John Hamburg is a man made of comedy. In particular, his films seem to center on the often uncomfortable way we interact with friends and family, especially during times […]
Writer/director/actor James Morosini had something happen to him when he was slightly younger, involving his father, that was so disturbing and memorable that rather than erase it from his memory, […]
Director Hannah Marks entered into directing in the midst of what most would consider a thriving acting career (one that she still enjoys), with regular roles on series like “Weeds,” […]
In her previous documentary, The Seer and the Unseen, director Sara Dosa adopted an almost magical-realism-like approach to telling the real-life story of an Icelandic woman who spoke on behalf […]
When writer/director/actor Cooper Raiff began making films, he tended to borrow not just from events in his life, but also the mental place he was in his life at that […]
On a broader scale, director Andrew Ahn’s new comedy Fire Island is about a group of multicultural gay men who travel from New York City to the Long Island-adjacent gay […]