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Divisive politics, a health-care plan in limbo, those darn Russians, triple-digit temps. If ever there was a moment when we as a nation needed to let off some steam and chill, it has arrived. Just in the...

Jason Bateman plays a business savvy patriarch who gets caught up in some shady dealings in “Ozark,” a new ten-episode series streaming on Netflix today. He tries to run his family like a small business after...

Two of the more interesting films on the 2017 festival circuit made their way to Montreal this week for Fantasia Festival and neither disappointed audiences in any way. These are both movies to put on your...

The following table of contents includes our updating coverage of the 2017 Fantasia International Film Festival as written by Brian Tallerico.AnimalsConfidential AssignmentThe Honor FarmHouse of the DisappearedJapanese Girls Never DieMohawkMuseumMy Friend DahmerOrigamiRadiusShin GodzillaThe Senior ClassTiltVampire Cleanup DepartmentThe...

Every summer movie season needs at least one out-of-left-field entry that is so cheerfully bonkers it stands as a living rebuke to an industry that churns out noisy and soulless garbage like “Transformers: The Last Knight.”...

Co-writers Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm wanted to “try to tell a bigger story” with their new film, “Landline,” after their success with “Obvious Child,” said Robespierre, who also directed both films. For their next project,...

At film festivals, it can often feel like one is trying to draw parallels between movies that don’t really have them. We see thematic mirroring that isn’t really there due to festival exhaustion and a desire...

Beloved film critic Roger Ebert will be inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame on Saturday, August 19th, at the American Writers Museum, 180 N. Michigan Ave., second floor. A score of old colleagues and...

HOW DO I LOVE THEE: SONNET 43: Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways….I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall...

Coming out of the first weekend of Fantasia 2017 in Montreal and into the meat of this epic event—it runs three full weeks—can lead to a bit of movie exhaustion. It certainly didn’t help matters that...