Earlier this year, I had the chance to sit in Chicago’s venerable Music Box Theatre and watch a 25th anniversary screening of “In

Between the ages of 3 and 5, I fell in love with the movies after seeing my very first one, learned how to

One of the more popular sections of the Chicago International Film Festival each year is the After Dark sidebar, a collection of films

The 61st edition of the Chicago International Film Festival has boasted an unusually strong lineup of high-quality titles from around the world, including

Now “Harold and the Purple Crayon” has arrived in theaters in all its live-action glory. It starts on a surprisingly engaging note: a

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that marks the feature debut of writer-director-costar Theda Hammel: it’s not overly

That said, the opening scene is some kind of instant classic, the kind that could have worked as its own short film and

Another flaw is that we never get any real sense of what is driving and motivating the two central characters beyond the most

“Migration,” sadly, is so bereft of any real point of interest for any viewer over the age of 8, that it almost makes