A Princeton, Illinois, native who now lives in Chicago, Samantha Martin is proof positive that sticking with your passion and becoming the best at what you do—no matter how seemingly […]
This month, you’d be forgiven if you spent your time at the movies catching up on Oscar nominations. With the 90th Academy Awards slated for March 4, there are dozens […]
It was explained to me years ago that some astronomically high percentage of cars in Russia have dashcams on them, facing out onto the road ahead. The reason for this […]
When Siskel Film Center re-opens tomorrow, they’re doing it with all guns blazing. The arthouse cinema on State Street took a month off at the end of the year to […]
This review was written by guest author Matthew Nerber. When we first meet Daje, the subject of Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest’s heartbreakingly sincere documentary For Ahkeem, she […]
The Chicago Media Project (CMP) has announced the Chicago premiere of the new Netflix documentary Voyeur on, Nov. 30, at the Davis Theater in Lincoln Square, part of their Dinner […]
This August Kino Lorber will be releasing three socially aware documentaries addressing a smorgasbord of topics. BLOODSWORTH If you want to know what freedom is like, just have someone take […]
Way up in the Canadian Arctic, where Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladin spent much of his youth before becoming a professional circus artist, there was an epidemic of suicide among the residents. […]