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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 [...]

For fans of the James Bond spy franchise, it’s always a matter of degrees. Where does everything in the oeuvre fit on the spectrum from serious to silly? Indeed, the Bond franchise has yielded [...]

Is Jake Gyllenhaal the most underrated actor working today? He can do drama, comedy, thrillers, action, and even musical theater. He’s a heralded talent for sure, but I’m not sure there’s a [...]

Screen adaptations are a tricky thing. Popular books, plays, and musicals don’t always convert to the medium of film, and DEAR EVAN HANSEN was one that was going to be tricky, no matter what. The [...]

Usually, horror films are filled with many slow-witted characters. They’re that way to make them easier victims, clueless and unaware of their surroundings, thereby easier to pick off by a ghoul [...]

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield give incredibly accomplished performances in the new biopic THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. It’s no mean feat, considering that the characters they are playing – [...]