Indie Outlook Picks the 2021 Nominees
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 […]
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Top 100 Favorite Films: 2017 Edition
A few years ago, I was asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that […]
Michael Glover Smith on “Cool Apocalypse”
There is no foolproof guidebook on how to make a living as an artist. For Michael Glover Smith, his passion for film has taken him many places before he arrived […]
CIFF 2015 Preview: “Anomalisa,” “James White” and Six More
There comes a point when a film festival turns from a casual diversion and into an obsession. That happened to me last year during the Chicago International Film Festival, when […]
Remembering Harold Ramis
The movie was “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” The theater was Century 12 Evanston. The man sitting behind me was Harold Ramis, though I was initially unaware of […]
Danny Rubin on “Groundhog Day”
Since its release in February of 1993, Harold Ramis’s comic masterpiece, “Groundhog Day,” has proven to be the sort of cinematic treasure that reaps bountiful rewards on repeat viewings, thus […]
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