It may sound strange for me to call a film as unsettling as Jared Hogan’s debut feature, “Jackrabbit,” therapeutic. But in an era of nonstop sensory overload, it’s a great […]
As soon as Richard Roeper broke the news with his touching article that Chicago’s Lake Street Screening Room may soon be no more, now that the office building housing it […]
Though my annual retrospective compilations have traditionally been published in the days following the Fourth of July, my wife Rebecca and I will be on our first West Coast trip […]
On my final day as a thirty-something, I’d like to honor my favorite art form by singling out a great many films that have enriched my life over the past […]
My annual picks for what I’d like to see nominated this year is led, unsurprisingly, by the picture that has swept most of the nationwide critics’ accolades thus far. Paul […]
Let’s face it, 2025 was a cataclysmically awful year—certainly the worst in our nation’s history that I’ve been alive to witness. Since free expression is a clear threat to authoritarianism, […]
Even during my current writing hiatus, no force on earth could prevent me from interviewing Crispin Glover during his long-awaited return to Chicago. Whenever his name appears in the credits […]
I often wonder whether my wife and I ever would have met had she not founded the site, Cinema Femme. It connected directly with a passion I had developed simply […]
On April 3rd, 2025, I spent the entire day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, one of the four parks that make up Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I spent the […]
The first David Lynch film I saw was “The Straight Story,” which is one of the most achingly beautiful films ever made. I was quite young when I first saw […]
