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Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” isn’t so much a remake of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic as it is a seriously insane (and seriously serious) expansion on the original. The two films share a setting, a few...

Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer’s wrenching French drama “Little Tickles” won the Roger Ebert Award during last week’s closing festivities for the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival.  In a work of incredible boldness, Bescond and Métayer...

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SyFy’s “Channel Zero” has built a small but loyal following by delivering solid, reliable genre entertainment across three six-episode seasons. Each iteration of “Channel Zero” is based on a “creepypasta,” the term for a series of...

Gerard Butler’s character in “Hunter Killer” is a submarine captain, and when he introduces himself to his crew he tells them that unlike most commanding officers, he is not a graduate of the Naval Academy who...

This creative essay was inspired by a real philosophy podcast and an illogical dream. What if James Dean lived into the ‘60s and worked primarily with French New Wave directors? Decades from now, international film critics...

A few years ago producer Sandra Schulberg told me a mesmerizing story about a film made by the late artist, Horace Jenkins, who died before it’s theatrical release, and whose film lay lost for three decades. The tale,...

It is practically a law that any major film festival has to program a couple of titles that deal specifically with the history of cinema. That was definitely the case with this year’s Chicago International Film...

All it takes is one great role for an actor to be rediscovered. Kiernan Shipka had already proven herself to be a formidable talent, growing up before our eyes on AMC’s “Mad Men” while displaying impressive...

The 1976 Barbra Streisand-Kris Kristofferson production of “A Star is Born” is the third official version of the tale —the fourth if you count the 1932 drama “What Price Hollywood?”, which preceded all of them, and provided the basic template...