Director Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air”) at the screening of “The Front Runner” in Chicago on October 21, 2018. (Photo by Connie Wilson). “The Front Runner,” starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Jason Reitner, was the favorite film I ...
Awards night at the 54th Chicago International Film Festival A party was held for Press and filmmakers, prior to the ceremony. The pictures here represent some of the behind-the-scene action. Many thanks to the organizers of the Chicago International Film ...
Actress Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Never Let Me Go,” “Drive”, “Wall Street: Money Never Stops,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Far From the Madding Crowd,” “Mudbound”) stopped in Chicago on October 10th at the Chicago International Film Festival to ...
The City The Sold America Trailer: Director Ky Dickens tracks the influence of Chicago’s advertising gurus on the world at large. From the Marlboro Man to Spuds Mackenzie, Chicago’s advertising companies gave birth to some of the most seminal marketing ...
Errol Morris, one of the world’s foremost documentary filmmakers (“The Fog of War,” “The Unknown Known”), presents us with his latest film, American Dharma, a sobering peek into the mind of the man “Time” magazine dubbed the Master Manipulator, Steve ...
Lucas Hedges is having a banner year, with starring roles in two much-talked about films, “Ben Is Back” and “Boy Erased.” “Boy Erased” is the story of the son of a Baptist minister in Arkansas who is outed to his ...
Peter Hedges, Writer-Director of Ben Is Back came to the Chicago International Film Festival to talk about the film that features his son, Lucas Hedges, as a recovering drug addict. This was the third film I’ve seen at the 54th Chicago ...
William Friedkin, the Director of such 70s masterpieces as “The French Connection” (1971), “The Exorcist” (1973), “Boys in the Band” (1976), “Sorcerer” (1977) and “Cruising” (1980) was awarded a Career Achievement Award on Monday, October 15th, at the 54th Chicago ...
Beautiful Boy Trailer: Opening Night of the 54th Chicago International Film Festival featured the Amazon film “Beautiful Boy,” directed by Belgian director Felix van Groeningen and starring Timothee Chalomet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan and Andre Royo (“The Wire,” ...
Writer/Director Elizabeth Chomko, winner of a Nicholls Screenplay Fellowship and sometime actress, has crafted a touching look at a brother and sister forced to deal with being “the sandwich generation,”—adults with lives and children of their own, who are obligated ...
Widows Genre: Drama/Crime Heist Director: Steve McQueen Writer: Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”) and Steve McQueen Cinematographer: Sean Bobbitt Music: Hans Zimmer Length: 211 minutes Cast: Viola Davis as Veronica Rawlins, Michelle Rodriguez as Linda Perelli, Cynthia Erivo as Belle (“Bad ...
New star Amandla Stenberg as Starr Carter is the lead in The Hate U Give portraying a 16-year-old African American teenager who witnesses the shooting death of close childhood friend and one-time crush Khalil Harris, shot by a white cop ...
