The life of Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) is one of almost constant, lifelong contradictions, mostly having to do with his embracing and then whole-heartedly rejecting his sexual identity. […]
When somebody describes a film as a “Sundance movie,” my mind tends to envision works like director Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, a comedic and melancholic film a […]
My favorite film from the Midnight selections at Sundance this year is the feature debut of director/co-writer Laura Moss (who penned it with Brendan J. O’Brien), birth/rebirth, a science-fiction/horror work […]
A big swing and a miss comes courtesy of writer/director Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls, 2015’s Madame Bovary) in The Pod Generation, concerning a New York couple, Rachel (Emilia Clarke) and […]
During my brief time living in New York City in the early 1990s, I resided in a building in the Village, near the NYU campus. Just a couple of blocks […]
The Sundance Film Festival wrapped last week, and even though it was entirely virtual this year, it turns out it still takes just as long to recover from long days […]
Sundance Film Festival’s slate of films was drastically pared down for this year’s virtual iteration, but it still feels like there’s no shortage of great films to discover on any […]
By this point in most film festivals, there’s typically been a lot of take-out food, very little sleep and more movies in a single day than some people see in […]
When you’ve got two film critics with nothing to do but watch films from home during the Sundance Film Festival, daily dispatches turn into hefty reading material. On the second […]
The winter storm that blew through Chicago this week might not have been welcomed by some, but for those of us used to heading to the snowy mountains each January […]
Just last week, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its line-up for their 55th edition; happening October 17-26, look for in-depth coverage on your hometown festival in the coming weeks […]
What They Had is about a lot of things, most of which are related to a family’s inability to talk about medical care, but also bigger-picture drama like the inability […]