Val Kilmer died last week of pneumonia after a long struggle against the cancer that took his voice. He left behind an extraordinary body of work and a reputation for…
Read moreI find it challenging to review “found footage” documentaries where the primary focus is on the footage itself. You watch it. It makes sense that someone would release the footage…
Read moreAlex Garland’s worlds, even those in the more fantastical realms of “Ex Machina,” “Dredd,” and “Annihilation,” find as many ways as possible to sell their fantasies within a realm of…
Read moreCHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Announces Full Program Lineup, Special Guests and Recipients of 2025 Emerging Critics Grant 12th Annual Festival Opens with THE BALTIMORONS, with filmmaker Jay Duplass attending; Angus…
Read moreWhat role does a show about a depressing, tech-addicted future play in a depressing, tech-addicted 2025? It’s been fascinating to watch as some of the “what if” scenarios of Charlie…
Read moreRamy Youssef once said that the more specific something is, the more universal it becomes. His eponymous series, about the lives of Egyptian immigrants in post-9/11 America, is deeply relatable…
Read moreThierry Frémaux and Iris Knobloch announced the lineup for the 78th Cannes Film Festival this morning, confirming some suspicions of what would premiere this year while dashing some dreams of…
Read morePresenting interdisciplinary research and sharing concerns about their discipline, members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies met in Chicago April 3-6, 2025. This annual international conference always intrigues…
Read moreA case can be made that the recent announcement of Amazon gaining creative control of the James Bond series from producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, its caretakers of…
Read moreThe latest film by David Cronenberg is his most personal in decades. Written after the death of his wife of 43 years, it’s about the unending nature of grief, the…
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