In March of 2015, I moved back to Chicago from New York. That was right about the time a new musical production about an (until then) obscure founding father was also making a move, from its initial run off-Broadway at the Public Theater to the Richard Rogers Theater on the Great White Way. For ...
Review: Good Trouble
As the country engages in an urgent and necessary conversation on racism and inequity, it's tempting to think of much of the history of this particular issue as just that, the sort of thing that is behind us, only being revisited as a means to understand how best to move forward. A documentary like ...
Review: House of Hummingbird
The American film landscape isn't lacking for coming of age films, particularly those of the female teenage experience. Bora Kim's lyrical debut feature film House of Hummingbird explores similar themes half a world away, following South Korean teenager Eunhee (Ji-hu Park) as she navigates a ...
Review: Beats
If you check out Beats this weekend, the latest from Scottish filmmaker Brian Welsh (from a play by Kieran Hurley, who co-wrote the script), it will help greatly if you're a fan of the kind of thumping, driving house music prevalent at the kinds of illegal raves around which the film is centered. ...
Review: Miss Juneteenth
If the first two thirds of Miss Juneteenth, the beautifully realized debut feature film from writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples, feel a bit quiet and underdeveloped, please do yourself the favor of hanging in there to see how it all comes delicately and triumphantly together by the time ...
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