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JUROR #2 (in theatres)

Clint Eastwood, truly a legendary human being, at ninety-four, has produced and directed a film wort…
ANORA (in theatres)

Director Sean Baker (“The Florida Project”) won this year’s Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival; …
CONCLAVE (in theatres)

Based on the 2016 novel by prodigious author Robert Harris, this gutsy, fictionalized peek at the se…
FINAL FILMS & INSIGHTS FROM THE 60TH CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

“THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG” (IRAN, FRANCE, GERMANY) DIRECTOR, MOHAMMAD RASOULOF “Never trust the ob…
CONTINUED FLICK TIPS FROM THE 60TH CIFF

“MY FAVORITE CAKE” (IRAN, FRANCE, SWEDEN & GERMANY) DIRECTORS, MARYAM MOGHADDAM, BEHTASH SANAEE…
FLICK TIPS FROM THE CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 60TH ANNIVERSARY

“THE PIANO LESSON” (US) The Washington brothers (Malcolm, director, John David, actor) give immediat…
THE OUTRUN (in theatres)

We have been doused/soused with a plethora of movies dealing with the vicissitudes of alcoholic wome…
WHITE BIRD (In theatres)

For decades multitudes of books, documentaries and movies have focused on the ugliness of the undrea…
JOKER: FOLIE a DEUX (in theatres)

“Folie a Deux” a colloquialism for two crazies hooking up, and there are no finer templates than “Ar…
MEGALOPOLIS (in theatres)

Francis Ford Coppola (1939-) in his dotage must have had a petit mal seizure, an hallucination; crea…
LEE (in theatres)

Lee Miller (1907-1977) was a woman of prodigious substance, a feminine force, a rule bender, barrier…
THE SUBSTANCE (in theatres)

Mephistopheles is cackling from his eighth level of hell, as “Elizabeth Sparkle” (magically sculpted…