published on Apr. 6, 2015 4pm
[SCREENING] If you enjoyed Liquid Sky, the last entry in the Kaleiodotropes film series at Squeaky Wheel, by all means make plans to see Decoder, a film from the same post punk/sci-fi vein.
published on Mar. 31, 2015 4pm
Pull up a chair and let’s chat about John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art and social critic…
published on Mar. 30, 2015 3pm
Love it or hate it—no one in our area has a lukewarm opinion on Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, even if you’ve never seen it.
published on Mar. 30, 2015 3pm
[SCREENING] The last time Buffalo 66 played at the North Park—when it premiered there in 1998—Vincent Gallo told me this when I asked him if he now thought of himself as a “film
published on Mar. 25, 2015 2am
It’s been a very good year for horror movies, a genre that seemed to be in terminal disrepute after a decade of torture porn.
published on Mar. 20, 2015 11pm
The title of ’71, now playing at the Eastern Hills Cinema, refers to the year in which it takes place. The setting is Belfast, and the escalation of British armed forces in the city has not yet peaked; it’s about a year before the date known as Bloody Sunday.
published on Mar. 9, 2015 3pm
[SCREENING] If there’s a common thread among the handful of genuine cult movies made in the 1980s—it’s that they present contemporary life as it might appear to an alien from another world.
published on Mar. 10, 2015 4pm
Reviews of Run All Night, Red Army, Chappie, and Eva.
published on Mar. 4, 2015 6am
If you ever looked at a classic vampire movie and thought that Dracula’s cape looks not unlike a male chador, you’re on the wavelength for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a Sundance presentation that all by itself nearly makes up for every failed attempt of the past decade to breath new life in...
published on Feb. 25, 2015 12am
The end credits of Focus identify as a production advisor Apollo Robbins, and if you know who that is you’ll know what kind of movie you’re in for. Robbins is possibly the world’s greatest pickpocket, at least among those willing to identify themselves in public.
