When did we lose the art of subtlety? Somewhere buried in the hour-and-a-half run time of “Nightbitch” is a truly fascinating story about motherhood, but the film’s reality is a sad case of no show...

The screening for Jeff Daniel Phillips’ horror film “Cursed in Baja” was supposed to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15. As 8:03 p.m. rolled around, the director and star was still in the...

Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” is about its own creation. Around halfway through the film, the character of Ingrid Vold (Renate Reinsve) discusses the ethics of casting her theater production...

The end of the 2010s were the apex of superhero popularity: everything from “Avengers: Endgame” to “Shazam!” were at the forefront of pop culture’s interaction with cinema. The first “Joker”...

DreamWorks Animation has had a mixed output of quality since their inception. Its hit-or-miss tendency hasn't stacked up against the competition within the animation industry, with Pixar and Disney swiping...

Let’s cut to the chase: there has never been anything like “Megalopolis,” and there will never be anything like it. Maybe there shouldn’t be. After all, no Hollywood filmmaker has ever set the...

From the sight of a glowing canopy marquee, the smell of popcorn with real butter and the sound of an organ playing before the lights go down, one thing is immediately clear: going to the Music Box Theatre...

Activate only once. Stabilize every day. Switch every seven days, without exception. The one and only thing not to forget: you are one. You can’t escape from yourself. These are the instructions given...

Not that I was alive (or at least conscious) to remember it, but there was a time where the words “Directed by Tim Burton” truly meant something. Seeing Burton’s name on a project used to immediately...

In the films of director Jane Schoenbrun, screens and the media displayed on them act as a separating force between the “real” world and the true identity of the characters within it. If Schoenbrun’s...

KiKi Layne, a Cincinnati native and DePaul alumna, has spent years building her craft as an actor. After graduating from The Theater School in 2014, she would coast across Chicago’s performance scene,...

Much of modern comedy filmmaking is too concerned with being “funny.” Comedy filmmakers, talented as they can be, often default to aimless riffing in fear of losing a potential joke. In the process,...