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Indie Flashback: Gaby Hoffmann on “Uncle Buck,” “Nate & Margaret” and More

March 29, 2020by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

The following interview was originally published at HollywoodChicago.com on August 21st, 2012. Few performers are lucky enough to make their big-screen debut in a hit movie, let alone two. In […]

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Top 20 Films of 2019: Part II

December 19, 2019by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Though my love of cinema still dwarfs my appetite for television, the increasing timidity of Hollywood studios combined with the creative risks undertaken by streaming platforms has caused 2019 to […]

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Writing for RogerEbert.com: Vol. 4

July 6, 2018by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

A surreal and wonderful event occurred during my coverage of the 90th Academy Awards for RogerEbert.com. I was in the official press room surrounded by 200 other journalists, including Ebert […]

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Roxane Mesquida, Najarra Townsend, Kevin Wehby, Jack C. Newell, Shane Simmons and Michael Glover Smith on “Mercury in Retrograde”

September 14, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Michael Glover Smith’s sophomore feature, “Mercury in Retrograde,” is a lyrical ode to the unspoken truths tucked between words. It follows three couples on a weekend vacation to a cabin […]

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“Writer’s Block” and “The Puppy Trials” Delight at Pens to Lens 2017

August 18, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Most of us have a movie that we dream of making someday. It’s what we fantasize about in the midst of our daily routine, imagining what an audience’s response might […]

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Top 100 Favorite Films: 2017 Edition

January 4, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Michael Glover Smith on “Cool Apocalypse”

August 12, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Michael DiBiasio and Rebecca De Ornelas on “The Videoblogs”

July 12, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Long before the Internet existed, filmmakers were fascinated by the human face. Some of the most transfixing moments in a film by Ingmar Bergman or Woody Allen occur when the […]

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I Don’t Know If I’m Coming or Going: An Appreciation of “Nine Lives”

April 28, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Some wonderful things happen in the moments prior to a film screening. Strangers in the audience strike up a conversation, connections are made and in some cases, lives are forever […]

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Dietrich Brüggemann on “Heil”

March 1, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

In the fall of 2014, I was covering the Chicago International Film Festival when I stumbled upon Dietrich Brüggemann’s German drama “Stations of the Cross.” It was a shattering portrait […]

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