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To paraphrase the late and great Dewey Cox, John C. Reilly has lived a lifetime full of days as an actor. Across 70-something film projects, he’s lent his Chicago-born talents to directors like Paul Thomas Anderson,...

With the gory pagan horror film “Apostle,” Indonesian filmmaker Gareth Evans takes a big step away from the martial-arts genre that he put his indelible stamp on in both the “Raid” films and in “Merantau” before...

Peter Bogdanovich is a sensible candidate to direct “The Great Buster,” a documentary about legendary actor-director Buster Keaton, because he’s an actor-director himself, and has always kept one foot in film history and the other in filmmaking.  Bogdanovich...

In 1978, candid photographer and fashion column writer Bill Cunningham took a picture of a woman passing by him on a New York street. He was interested in the coat she was wearing, which struck him...

If you want to get an almost first-person sense of what it felt like to fly in one of the earliest supersonic planes or ride a rocket into orbit and beyond, “First Man” is the movie to see....

The Chicago International Film Festival brings a great number of films to the Windy City for their Chicago premiere that our staff has seen at other festivals around the world, including TIFF, Cannes, Venice, NYFF and...

Mike Flanagan has quickly risen in the esteem of horror fans thanks to projects like “Oculus,” “Hush” and “Gerald’s Game,” so hope was high when Netflix announced that the filmmaker was adapting Shirley Jackson’s brilliant The...

Now in its 54th year, the second under the purview of Artistic Director Mimi Plauche—founder Michael Kutza having stepped away to serve as CEO—the Chicago International Film Festival has undergone a couple of changes to its...

Given his penchant for intense, fast-moving, “you are there” modes of cinematic storytelling, there was every reason to dread the prospect of Paul Greengrass making a film about the horrific events in Norway on July 22,...

Matthew Weiner’s first project since his multiple award-winning “Mad Men” is certainly ambitious. It’s not a television series as much as it is a thematically connected series of feature films. The first two “episodes” of Amazon’s...