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The Film Fest 919 takes place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and offers wide-ranging, buzz-worthy films along with on-site talent, discussions, events, and awards. This year’s iteration ran from October 18-24, with 23 movies shown at Spotlight Cinema...

In August of 2018, my father was walking through the historic Square in Woodstock, Illinois, when he spotted a film crew setting up a shot outside the local movie theater. ’50s era vehicles filled the parking...

Films that seem to have everything going for them but that don’t come together can be much more frustrating than films that are simply bad. You keep rooting for them and then sighing. Eleanor Coppola’s second...

Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” premiered this past Wednesday, November 10th, on Netflix. Hall’s cinematic interpretation is powerful and exquisite, especially the outstanding performances of Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.(See review by Odie Henderson at Rogerebert.com). In honor of...

There was always an aura of mystery surrounding the “two white ladies” who lived down the block from us on the Near West Side of Chicago. First, our neighborhood, except for them, was all African American....

The isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic led Sir Kenneth Branagh to look back on his childhood. He wrote the screenplay for his new black and white movie, “Belfast” as a poignant love letter to the time...

“Belfast” is unquestionably Kenneth Branagh’s most personal film to date, but it’s also sure to have universal resonance. It depicts a violent, tumultuous time in Northern Ireland, but it does so through the innocent, exuberant eyes...

“The Shrink Next Door” is a nightmare of terrible boundaries, of toxic advice, of a true friendship that lasted more than 25 years. And it happened, albeit to a poor schmuck who got taken for a...

I’m so happy that Clifford doesn’t talk. Watching the truly sweet and hard-to-hate “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” I pictured the version of the potential version of this story that was probably pitched in an elevator...

The year was 1982. David Lynch was in Mexico, in the end stages of preparations for “Dune.” One day, a guy, slim and pale, with intense eyes, showed up at the studio commissary, and made his...