During a particularly nasty argument early in Chess of the Wind, autocratic patriarch Amoo (Mohamad Ali Keshavarz) scolds his two sons for speaking in naïve ab...
Coming-of-age narratives live or die based on the authenticity of their vision, especially those that take place in the not-so-distant past. Since the genre’s ...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (let’s call it Borat) took the English-speaking comedy world by storm in 20...
Hollywood has few directors who exude the pure, giddy joy one can find in every beat of a Robert Zemeckis film. From the Beatles-infused start of his career in...
“You are surrounded by intruders,” a strange, inexplicably knowing old woman tells a haunted voice actor and singer named Inés. “You have to get in the dream a...
As my time at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival starts to wind down, I’ve been thinking about movies. Who knew? More specifically, I’ve been thinkin...
Despite David O. Selznick's desire to keep his cinematic adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel Rebecca as true to the source novel as possible and not aliena...
Abuse is a hard subject to talk about, let alone put into words, and filmmakers who choose to tell these stories always have a struggle. How much of the incide...
Skating into my halfway point for the 56th Chicago International Film Festival, I’m starting to realize the little things I miss about doing this in person. Su...
Calling a Kate Winslet performance career-best is no easy statement, but her turn as 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite is certainly i...
