Pack your bags, start up the campfire and get ready for one “Hell of a Summer.”
The comedy-horror film, directed and written by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk and featuring an ensemble led by Fred...
Paul William Scott Anderson’s fifteenth film “In the Lost Lands” combines his signature post-apocalyptic charm with fantastical set pieces, and a bare-bones script that throws everything on the table....
Director Mark Anthony Green sat down with three college journalists on Wednesday, March 5, to answer questions about his new comedy/thriller film “Opus.” Green, himself a former journalist at GQ, was...
Jake Panek, Film & TV Beat Writer
/ March 10, 2025
I’d like to preface this review with something Belgian director Chantal Akerman once said about mainstream audiences’ responses to her avant-garde films:
“When most people go to the movies, the...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ February 17, 2025
There were many concerns going into Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17.” His return to filmmaking after his landmark 2019 drama “Parasite” was to be a dark sci-fi comedy under Warner Brothers, an adaptation...
If you venture to the depths of the Daley Building downtown on Tuesday evenings, you’ll find DePaul’s Directors for Actors club rehearsing, just past the hall of film posters and inside the auditorium.
The...
Jake Panek, Film & TV Beat Writer
/ February 17, 2025
Of every video game that I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into and pulled plenty of all-nighters on with friends over the years, few have as dear a place in my heart as Grand Theft Auto V. The second-bestselling...
Sam McCarthy, Contributing Writer
/ February 10, 2025
Ouch. “Love Hurts,” indeed.
Hollywood loves a comeback, but few have felt as genuinely moving as Key Huy Quan’s triumphant return to screen. Decades after “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,”...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ February 3, 2025
The cultural dearth of tact or dignity in the American film industry truly began to simmer in 1988 when President Ronald Reagan vetoed Bill H.R. 3966, known as the “Children’s Television Act.” This...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ February 3, 2025
CW: This piece briefly discusses sexual harassment and assault.
A few weeks ago, I was sexually harassed for the first time. I boarded a Red Line train midday on a Tuesday. Shortly after I...
Sam McCarthy, Contributing Writer
/ January 27, 2025
Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man” takes a daring swing in the reinvention of the classic creature feature, a similar swing he took with mad scientists in his 2020 Blumhouse reboot, “The Invisible Man.”...