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The show went on, pandemic be damned! This year, the eighth Middleburg Film Festival was able to lure cineastes to view movies on the big screen again. Like many film festivals, this celebration of cinema—which has...

History books credit former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with the end of the Cold War and the movements toward democracy and freedom of the press that led to the breaking up of the USSR. He was...

Steeped with heartache, trauma and loss, Carlson Young’s “The Blazing World” is a bid to find comfort and healing for a wounded soul. While it doesn’t quite deliver salvation, its scope is clearly ambitious. Dripping in...

Before “CODA,” there was the 1996 German film “Beyond Silence,” an extraordinary drama about a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult) girl who tries to live her own life while growing up on that thin invisible line...

Note: There will be a special horror-themed edition of the guide next week that focuses on the many recent genre Blu-ray releases, including “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” “Old,” “The Forever Purge,” and 4K editions of...

Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and celebrity chef Charlie Trotter have three things in common. For one, they all hail from the great state of Illinois. For another, all three would go on...

Toxic, powerful families have been the stuff great dramas are made of since before Aristotle wrote Poetics. Never in human history has there been a shortage of stories to choose from exploring the lives of the...

Among the many unmissable events held throughout the 2021 Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), which kicked off on September 25th and runs through Thursday, December 9th (click here for the full list of events), one unforgettably brought down...

Everything old is new again. There’s a “Scream” trailer gaining buzz; “Halloween Kills” opens today in theaters and drops tomorrow on Peacock; there’s a “Chucky” TV show now! Given the landscape, it’s kind of surprising that...

My feeling about David Gordon Green’s reboot of “Halloween” in 2018 was that the talented director fundamentally misunderstood what worked about the John Carpenter original, draining the project of actual tension, despite a few solid set...