Just when you thought the whodunit sub-genre of mysteries was going to begin and end with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies, we get director Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives. Based […]
This article was written by Thomas Hodgkins The Doc10 Film Festival screened new and unreleased documentaries in Chicago from April 24 to May 3. Accompanied by panels with filmmakers and […]
It might have been the most high-stakes coin flip of all time. Last week’s supersized episode of Survivor 50 had a 50/50 chance of being a thrilling season highlight or […]
Chicago is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for jazz music this week. Concerts, exhibits, and various symposia on the art of jazz across the city led up to International Jazz […]
Brazilian cinema is having its moment just as Iranian, Taiwanese and Korean cinemas did at some point. But what happens after the flavor-of-the-month stops being the flavor-of-the-month? Answer: a select […]
A churlish novelist named Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) arrives at a quaint, quite old hotel in rural Ireland, a place where his parents had their honeymoon. While he could be […]
As I was experiencing the 20-years-later sequel to The Devil Wears Prada the other day, I found myself repeatedly astonished at how much I was enjoying not just the jokes […]
The day before the most recent episode of Survivor 50 aired, AV Club posted an article lamenting the season’s “Jeff Probst problem”: namely, the host’s unrelenting need to insert himself […]
The opening scene of the new thriller Apex is one of the more memorable I’ve seen in a while. In the span of just a few minutes, we learn a […]
Depending on where you stand, writer/director/editor David Lowery’s Mother Mary can be seen as a trippy relationship drama, a full-on psychological horror attack, a story about the lengths an artist […]
When it comes to music biopics, I don’t require or expect historical accuracy—leave it to the documentaries to get everything right. What I do expect is to discover something about […]
Although the trailblazing New York punk legends Lunachicks weren’t technically the first all-female punk band, their iconic looks and undeniably catchy hard-rock tunes always make me feel like they should […]