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Matt writes: After a prolonged hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Critics Film Festival finally returns to the Music Box Theatre from Friday, November 12th, through Sunday, November 14th. You can find the complete...

Like so many events in 2020, the Chicago Critics Film Festival was forced to hit the pause button just before it was about to announce the first selections for its eighth annual edition scheduled for May...

“Picasso said that ‘art is a lie that helps us see the truth,’ and Barry’s stories function in the same way about Chicago in the 1950s,” director Rob Christopher told me during our 2019 conversation about...

We are pleased to share an excerpt from Christian Blauvelt’s new book, Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II. To order your copy of the book, click here.  THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY...

Directed by Tracey Deer, “Beans” is a coming-of-age story that attempts a balancing act of finite life wisdom and the highlighting of important Mohawk history, all of it told with sincerity. But that very sincerity only gets it so far...

‘Tis the season for sweaters, warm drinks, and oh yeah, holiday movies. Getting ahead of this year’s festivities, Hernán Jiménez’s “Love Hard” tries its hardest to win over romantic comedy fans with a modern tale of...

Rawson Marshall Thurber’s “Red Notice” should work on paper. It’s got a charismatic cast sent globe-hopping to beautiful places on a treasure hunt straight out of an “Indiana Jones” movie. How could it go wrong? Well,...

“Dr. Brain” is incredibly weird in all the best ways. Apple TV Plus clearly hopes that their consistently creative and clever sci-fi/action show will find some of the same audience that turned Netflix’s “Squid Game” into...

For many years, audiences at our Ebertfest Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois, eagerly awaited the live music accompaniment to a silent film classic as performed by The Alloy Orchestra. When they first appeared at Ebertfest my late husband, Roger Ebert,...

Cinedigm, the independent streaming entertainment company recently announced the evolution of its pioneering streaming service Fandor, and said it has been called the “Netflix for Indie Film” by The Wall Street Journal.  Phil Hopkins, the president of Fandor tells us that...