Ode to a Cinematic Sanctuary on Lake Street
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 […]
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Writing for Cinema Femme: Vol. 2
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 […]
My Favorite Films from Each Year
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 […]
Indie Outlook Picks the 2025 Nominees
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 […]
Top 20 Films of 2025
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, […]
Crispin Glover on “No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance”
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 […]
Writing for Cinema Femme: Vol. 1
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 […]
Saying Goodbye to “Muppet*Vision 3D”: My Day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
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 […]
Remembering David Lynch
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 […]
Indie Outlook Picks the 2024 Nominees
With the Chicago Film Critics Association announcing the winners of their annual awards this evening, I figured that I might as well publish my annual list of the great work […]
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