We talk to star/writer McKenzie Chinn, director Gregory Dixon, and actor Charles Andrew Gardner about their vibrant, Chicago-set […]
Category Archive: Festivals
Coverage of domestic and international film festivals, previewing the latest upcoming features and independent favorites.
The first-time filmmaker and the veteran actor sit down to talk about Chomko’s experiences with Alzheimer’s in her […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood In my last post I suggested that the unofficial theme for […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood The Chicago International Film Festival keeps chugging along this week, and […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood As horror continues its gradual moving away from traditional monsters and […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood The 54th Chicago International Film Festival is more than just an […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood Now in its third year, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, taking […]
The 36th annual LGBTQ+ film fest starts up this week in Chicago, and we talk about some of […]
Blumhouse’s latest thriller is tense and deceptively clever, but undoes its thrills with no shortage of irritating fakeouts. […]
Andy Milton’s atmospheric haunted house film is inscrutably scary and beautifully lit, balancing bone-chilling existential horror with compelling […]
The web-footage sequel to the first Unfriended sees the series move in more believably conventional directions, eschewing supernatural […]
Justin McConnell’s lean, fascinating horror-drama blends an intriguing structure with some novel investigation into the psychology of its […]
The writer/director of Fantasia-debuting horror film Lifechanger talks about the origins of the project and getting into the […]
Lisa Brühlmann’s Swiss coming-of-age mermaid tale is admirably shot and performed, but inadvertently hews too closely to similar […]
A loose remake/prequel to the 1980 film of the same name, Satan’s Slave is a chilling story of […]
Superbly acted and beautifully shot, Neomanila is a morally ambiguous tale about what we do to survive and […]
Hausu’s Nobuhiko Obayashi starts wrapping up his 60-year career in filmmaking with a deeply weird, compellingly stream-of-consciousness wartime […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood If you want festivals full of soulful contemplation of the human […]