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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Now’s not the best time to appreciate “Ponniyin Selvan: Part II,” the back half of a highly anticipated Tamil language…
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James Gunn loves his outcasts. One of the most interesting things about his “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies has been…
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“White House Plumbers” is the story of a couple of tried-and-true Americans who wanted to serve their president. That description…
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