Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance originally ran as a theatrical review. When Nicolas Cage recently showed up on “Saturday Night Live,” he basically said “I’m with...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Tom at the Farm originally ran as a theatrical review. At only 26, Xavier Dolan has already left a mark on world cinema with his five...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of All That Heaven Allows originally ran as part of Aaron Pinkston’s series on the American 50s. I’m going to make a bold assumption that the average...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as part of our countdown of the top 50 horror movies of all time. The film that started a long run of slasher...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Being There originally ran as part of our Ebertfest 2017 coverage. Finally, my last screening of the festival was another film that looks a little bit...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as part of Aaron’s A Series of Crimes series. Jean-Luc Godard, like his French New Wave contemporaries, was fascinated by Hollywood...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as part of Aaron Pinkston’s series following the Gene Siskel Film Center’s class on trangressive American Comedies. My first exposure to Jerry Lewis (telethon aside)...
This article originally ran as part of Aaron’s series on American Films of the 1950s. Up until this point in the 1950s film series, a specific demographic had been completely unrepresented — strangely enough, the demographic that is the largest...
This originally ran in September 2012 as a part of Aaron’s series on 1950s American films. In his introduction of Touch of Evil at the Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute professor Fred Camper called the 1950s...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...