I often refer to writer/director Michael Glover Smith’s 2015 debut feature “Cool Apocalypse” as the Windy City’s answer to “Manhattan,” albeit without the creep factor. There is a sequence in […]
A day prior to seeing the new 4K restoration of 2006’s surrealist epic “Inland Empire” at the Music Box Theatre’s “David Lynch: A Complete Retrospective—The Return,” programmed by Daniel Knox, […]
My annual article selecting the films and artists I’d love to see nominated during this year’s awards season further affirms why my Best of 2021 list was alphabetized. There were […]
It has only been within the last few months that I began seeing movies in a theater again. Attending press screenings has felt akin to a family reunion, allowing me […]
Roger Ebert once told David Lynch that the director’s 2001 masterpiece “Mulholland Dr.” is a movie that “refuses to be over” in the best sense. The same could be said […]
Though many awards season hopefuls have pushed their release dates to February, in light of the Oscars supposedly being held in-person on April 25th, Indie Outlook is still releasing its […]
Now that Netflix and other streaming services have become our virtual movie theaters, the potential for long-form storytelling has been explored like never before. In addition to this list ranking […]
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” I doubt there’s a human on earth who couldn’t relate to this timeless line from John Lennon’s “Beautiful […]
There’s no program I’ve found to be more therapeutic during this exceedingly strange and despairing year than David Lynch and Mark Frost’s “Twin Peaks.” After visiting Mary Reber, the wonderful […]
Dreams have often become practically indiscernible from reality during this quarantined era where our days have blurred together like never before. It’s coincidental yet entirely fitting that filmmaker Jaclyn Bethany’s […]
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