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In a career in the performing arts that spanned 80 years, Angela Lansbury kept herself fresh and ready to razzle-dazzle through all manner of career challenges and disappointments. There was a deep well of emotion in...

Matt writes: While awaiting my early morning flight to the BendFilm Festival, all I could think about was every precious moment I shared with my dear friend and colleague, Sergio Mims. The news had just been posted...

I’ve long joked that Apple TV+ is a streaming service solely marketed to TV critics: With its enormous budgets, ambitious briefs, and A-list casts, the streamer has a stunningly high batting average and (with a few...

It was a decade ago that I interviewed filmmaker Todd Looby about his splendid directorial efforts, “Lefty” and “Be Good,” naturalistic marvels that would fit perfectly among the selections at the BendFilm Festival, for which he...

It’s a Saturday night in January 1997 at the Mundelein Theater and we’re all saying goodbye.  Our movie theater where we had been performing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for the past several years would soon close....

It makes sense that the NYFF selection committee relegated “Coma” to Currents, despite Bertrand Bonello being a main slate kind of an act for the most part. On the one hand, it’s a movie that mostly...

The best thing I saw at this year’s New York Film Festival was Ben Russell’s “Against Time,” part of the short film offering “Currents Program 8: Time Out of Mind,” playing again on October 10th. Russell...

“The World Is Too Much with Us,” the title of a Wordsworth sonnet that has nothing to do with cinema, has been running through my head since the beginning of this year’s New York Film Festival,...

Leslie isn’t circling the bottom of the drain yet, but she’s sunk pretty low.  We first meet the title character of “To Leslie” (Andrea Risenborough) in an opening credits montage of photos showing what life was like before. Leslie got married,...

Sergio Mims, the co-founder of the Black Harvest Film Festival, a contributor to this site, and a long-standing member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, passed away this week at the age of 67. We wanted to...