Movie

  • The Undoing

    by - Oct 21, 2020
    HBO’s latest high-profile mini-series consciously echoes recent hits for the beloved pay cable network. It has the pedigree and even some of the personnel from “Big Little Lies,” mixed with the NY whodunit aspect of “The Night Of,”...
  • Welcome to Judgment City: A Look Back at Defending Your Life

    by - Oct 20, 2020
    What awaits us after death? One religion tells us that living a moral and upstanding life will grant us a place in the kingdom of Heaven. Another tells us that there’s no heaven or hell but...
  • The Sounding

    by - Oct 20, 2020
    An adventurous psychological drama on the subjectivity of language, actor-turned-director Catherine Eaton’s “The Sounding” impresses more with its majestic and ageless feel than its vague ideas around the human mind.  While Eaton’s story (co-written by her...
  • Memories of Murder

    by - Oct 20, 2020
    Despite the incredible events that have taken place in the world since the multiple Oscars for “Parasite,” Neon is still basking in the afterglow of that history-making night, releasing another Bong Joon-ho flick for the first time...
  • The West Wing Returns for an HBO Max Special

    by - Oct 19, 2020
    There’s a frame on Leo’s desk. We don’t spend long there—no one spends long anywhere on Aaron Sorkin’s “The West Wing,” a series famous for its walk-and-talks which, never fear, are alive and well in Thomas...
  • Touring Masterworks: Adam Nayman Discusses His New Book on Paul Thomas Anderson

    by - Oct 19, 2020
    Film critic Adam Nayman and I often work in the same genre of book (pictorial criticism) at the same publishing house (Abrams Books, by way of the film magazine-turned-imprint Little White Lies). It’s fun to try to anticipate what...
  • Rhonda Fleming: 1923-2020

    by - Oct 18, 2020
    With her flaming red hair and lush figure, Rhonda Fleming was one of the most beautiful women in movies in the 1950s. She was sometimes known, like her fellow redhead Maureen O’Hara, as the Queen of...
  • CIFF 2020: Black Perspectives Program Highlights Diverse Voices

    by - Oct 18, 2020
    Founded in 1997 by Alisa Stars and Bob Scarpelli in collaboration with Spike Lee, the Black Perspectives program at the Chicago International Film Festival has been highlighting films from the African and African American perspective for...
  • Honest Thief

    by - Oct 16, 2020
    Liam Neeson once again plays a man with a very particular set of skills—safecracking and bombmaking among them—in “Honest Thief,” a no-frills, low-thrills version of the kind of gritty action picture that has marked the veteran...
  • Immerse Yourself in Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project #3

    by - Oct 16, 2020
    Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project began in 2007, with a commitment to restoring and releasing films from parts of the world where filmmaking was difficult for political and cultural reasons. While some of these restorations resulted...