Ang Lee’s ahead-of-its-time classic “ The Wedding Banquet ” was marked by the same qualities too, in navigating the tale of a ...

In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of ...

Like the Chicago International Film Festival, CLFF spans multiple movie venues, and, over its four decades, it has bounced around, now primarily calling the Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago’s ...

A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of ...

“#1 Happy Family USA” is a biting, insightful, and clever social animated satire, perfect for Youssef’s fanbase. In the age ...

We’ve seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes variations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories debuted way back in 1887, and it seems like every few years now, we get a new take on the master logician. The CW is ...

From there, “The Rehearsal” travels down a rabbit-hole of social anthropology, trying to solve the problem that plagues ...

The latest film by David Cronenberg is his most personal in decades. Written after the death of his wife of 43 years, it’s ...

A report from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies event that took place in the shadow of protests in Chicago last ...

Without Arrows” is an ironic title for a film that pierces the heart. It’s a loving portrait of a damaged but unbowed way of ...

Apple TV’s new comedy-drama “Government Cheese” boasts a talented cast. The story is witty, filled with religious references ...

It was e. e. cummings, the poet, who said he’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. I imagine cummings would not have enjoyed Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A ...