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A huge amount of baseball mythmaking, whether derived from the movies or elsewhere, is based on love of the game being passed on from fathers to sons. I love the baseball/fathers-and-son connection. “A League of Their...

WHEN KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE SUMMER, the Chicago Public Library Foundation aims to stop the “summer brain drain” by providing a program that will keep the city’s youth educated and engaged. The library’s...

FEW PROGRAMS INSPIRE ME MORE THAN those committed to empowering the voices of future filmmakers, and especially those that empower the voices of female filmmakers. That is the goal of the CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) Program in...

We are pleased to feature an excerpt from the July 2017 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, which has theme of Sex and the Movies. It’s their largest issue to date, though still available online for just...

Matt writes: One of the most acclaimed films of 2017 thus far is Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver,” a cinematic adrenaline rush for the ages. It’s the best fusion of ingenious car chases and equally imaginative song...

“War for the Planet of the Apes” is a film that unapologetically embraces the first word of its title. It opens with soldiers in a lush green forest with nicknames on their helmets, marching toward the...

“​Twin Peaks: The Return”​ has floored its fan base so effectively that a weeklong wait between episodes (or worse, two weeks) can feel downright eternal. The fans are hooked, and the memes, Reddit theories, and worn...

“Mondo Bava,” the Quad Cinema’s new retrospective of movies directed by Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, poses an interesting challenge: what qualities are uniquely “Bava-esque”? His films formative stylistic rigor and a unique visual style that has influenced...

A fascinating thing happens midway through “The Rehearsal,” Alison MacLean’s adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel about a year in the life of acting students: you realize that the movie has been getting a lot of mileage...

The men and women profiled in Matthew Heineman’s “City of Ghosts” are certainly haunted. They look at photos of the people who have died in their hometown of Raqqa and they question whether or not everything...