Pete Davidson is so close to getting it in his new Peacock series, “Bupkis.” As his character Pete Davidson confides…
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Evocatively titled films that flirt with magical realism and ecology are the calling card of Chilean director Francisca Alegría. Her…
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The art of the story-driven DLC has somewhat dissipated over the last few years, with most titles considered complete when…
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INTRODUCTION: TEN YEARS AGO, on April 4th, 2013, my late husband Roger passed away. He had worked diligently with me and Festival Director…
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The dystopic new AppleTV+ series “Silo” is based on a series of books by Hugh Howey about a community that…
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For the last ten years, I have had the honor of being the Short Films Programmer for the Chicago Critics…
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Matt writes: The world lost one of its greatest artists and humanists when Harry Belafonte passed away last month at…
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The Anne Frank story has been burned into the cultural consciousness for decades now—a tragic tale of hope and resilience…
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Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the first directors I encountered as a teenager who demonstrated to me that art shouldn’t…
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“Peter Pan & Wendy” is pretty much what you’d expect from a live-action version of one of Walt Disney’s animated classics,…
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