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Edgar Wright is one of our best filmmakers and the trailer for his latest movie LAST NIGHT IN SOHO was a stunner. The preview teased a slick, horror tale involving time travel, the fashion world, [...]

French filmmaker Antoine Barraud has delivered one of the most fascinating and complex films of the year in MADELEINE COLLINS and it’s apparent from the very first scene. In a single, continuous [...]

Horror is a genre that permeates the American market. On any weekend, whether in the theaters or on Shudder.com or Netflix, fans can usually find a new scary movie opening. Not so with foreign [...]

Princess Diana has been portrayed on stage and screen many times before. Emma Corrin almost won an Emmy for her turn on the sublime fourth season of Netflix’s THE CROWN. Naomi Watts gave the part [...]

Director Denis Villeneuve is a superb world-builder. The rainy, forever-gray neighborhood in PRISONERS, the heat-drenched Mexico in SICARIO, the egg-shaped, alien ships in ARRIVAL…his landscapes [...]

Pedro Almodóvar’s new film isn’t scheduled to open in the United States till Christmas, but it’s one of the big foreign features at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. It was shown [...]

President Barack Obama once gave an interview where he talked about the two black athletes that really influenced him as a child. One was Muhammed Ali and the other was Arthur Ashe. There’s [...]

It’s a clever title, MASS is. It has a double meaning here in this tightly wound character study. The word not only shorthands a mass shooting at a school that has occurred and drives the plot [...]

The 2021 Chicago International Film Festival started in full swing Wednesday night and this Friday night you have an opportunity to catch the horror shorts in this year’s “After Dark” series. [...]

In 2012, Brad Miska, the founder of the horror website BloodyDisgusting.com, had a clever idea to take advantage of the “found footage” trend pulsing through the horror genre. He hired a handful [...]