Aubrey Plaza, in a career performance, is an ordinary and well-meaning person beaten down by crushing student loan debt and unfair hiring practices before turning to a life of crime to make ends meet.…
Resurrection is fascinating in what it has to say about motherhood, regret, different generations of women, relationships of manipulation and abuse, and how a person may go on from real life horror to create a different life, image, new persona, be outwardly successful but…
It’s easy to appreciate the picture’s pointed satirical declarations about the movie industry: that people of color are often cast to the wayside in a white dominated industry, that today's dependence on digital movie technology should be discarded in favor of traditional shot-on-film cameras,…
The great Leslie Manville headlines a loving picture suggesting the impact that a simple person of good values and compassion can make in the world, in unexpected ways, unlikely places and with people from different realms who share the same values.…
I caught up with Hannah Marks and Mia Isaac for a chat on the film’s multiple, ambitious agendas and their enthusiasm about their futures, which appear limitless, in the American movie industry.…
It is difficult to believe that only two short years ago theatrical exhibition was writing its obituary during lockdowns as studios pulled or postponed their theatrical slates in favor of new distribution models, premiering first-run pictures simultaneously, or altogether, on streaming platforms and radically…
The extent to which one enjoys Thor: Love and Thunder, will depend upon a tolerance for an overplayed hand of wink-wink, nudge-nudge so broad as to suggest that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent aspiring to little else than a trivial wank.…
Refugees, the immigrant's dream, parents and adult children, exceptional small town values and...chocolate. Please join ChicagoFilm and Cinema Chicago for a special in-person screening and post-film Q&A with director Jonathan Keijser.…