Indie Outlook: Seventh Anniversary
It’s only fitting that Independence Day has been followed each year by the anniversary of Indie Outlook, my site dedicated to films and artists who are among the finest in […]
Tag Archives: SXSW
Out of Time: The Brilliant Soundtrack of Hal Ashby’s “Coming Home”
On May 7th of last year, I was fortunate enough to catch Amy Scott’s splendid documentary, “Hal,” at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I had already been a fan of […]
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 […]
Colin Healey on “Homemakers”
One of the great pleasures of the moviegoing experience is encountering a character unlike any you have seen before onscreen. Irene (Rachel McKeon), the anti-heroine of Colin Healey’s superb directorial […]
Reflections of Synthetic Skin
On April 17th of last year, I posted a piece entitled “Under Her Skin” that compared the heroines of Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” and Spike Jonze’s “Her.” One was […]
Ten Underrated Performances in 2014
As the summer fades to black, critics are already bracing themselves for the aggressive onslaught of awards campaigns that will be vying for their attention in the coming months. We’ll […]
Memories of Ebertfest 2014
Amazing how you can know someone for a few days and feel as though you’ve made a friend for life. That’s an experience not uncommon to the attendees at Ebertfest, […]
Salute These Shorts
One of the great unexpected pleasures of the first-ever Chicago Critics Film Festival was its rich and varied assortment of short subjects curated by critic Collin Souter. Though I missed […]
CCFF Preview: Emily Hagins on “Grow Up, Tony Phillips”
The first-ever Chicago Critics Film Festival has a great deal of cinematic goodies in store for cinephiles this weekend, from acclaimed indies like Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” and James […]
Ten Enticing Titles at SXSW 2013
With movie theaters currently overrun with would-be blockbusters painfully underserving of a full-price ticket, it’s a mighty consolation to see so many enticing titles emerge from festivals such as SXSW. […]
