As my time at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival starts to wind down, I’ve been thinking about movies. Who knew? More specifically, I’ve been thinkin...
Despite David O. Selznick's desire to keep his cinematic adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel Rebecca as true to the source novel as possible and not aliena...
Abuse is a hard subject to talk about, let alone put into words, and filmmakers who choose to tell these stories always have a struggle. How much of the incide...
Skating into my halfway point for the 56th Chicago International Film Festival, I’m starting to realize the little things I miss about doing this in person. Su...
Calling a Kate Winslet performance career-best is no easy statement, but her turn as 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite is certainly i...
With another day at the (virtual) 56th Chicago International Film Festival comes another batch to sift through. It was a lighter batch too, not just in numbers...
We're seven years past the apocalypse. Eight years since the world banded together to send every nuclear missile on Earth into the sky to stop an asteroid hell...
While my first day of the 56th Chicago International Film Festival brought four scripted movies, day two had a bit more variety on that front. Yes, Thursday th...
Big Oil has been wrecking the environment for decades with spills, fires, and wastewater ponds amongst other atrocities to Mother Nature that place their botto...
With each October comes the Chicago International Film Festival, but with 2020 also comes a pandemic. Yes, CIFF is rightfully falling in the same school as sev...
