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Movie Review – No Future (2021)

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No Future, 2021.Directed Andrew Irvine and Mark Smoot. Starring Catherine Keener, Charlie Heaton, Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Jefferson White, Austin Amelio, Heather Kafka, and Jason Douglas.SYNOPSIS:After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend’s grieving mother.Opening at an addiction meeting, No […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Review – Mayor Pete

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Mayor Pete, 2021.Directed by Jesse Moss. Featuring Pete Buttigieg, and Chasten Buttigieg.SYNOPSIS:An inside look at Pete Buttigieg campaign to run for President of the United States.The 2019 Iowa caucus is typically remembered for the botched and delayed voting results, and the surprise victory for openly gay South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Directed by Jesse […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Julia

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Julia. 2021Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West. Featuring Julia Child, José Andrés Puerta, Ruth Reichl, Cecile Richards, and Marcus Samuelsson.SYNOPSIS: Julia tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women.Even for those unfamiliar with cookbook author/TV host Julia Child, […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Mothering Sunday

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Mothering Sunday, 2021Directed by Eva Husson. Starring Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Glenda Jackson, Sope Dirisu, Nathan Reeve, Samuel Barlow, Dexter Raggatt, Patsy Ferran, Charlie Oscar, Emma D’Arcy, Simon Shepherd, Caroline Harker, Craig Crosbie, Emily Woof, Alex Cubb, Forrest Bothwell, and Albert Welling.SYNOPSIS:A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans […]

Movie Review – Dune (2021)

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Dune, 2021.Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Chang Chen, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling, Babs Olusanmokun, and Benjamin Clémentine.SYNOPSIS:Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with […]

Movie Review – Survive the Game (2021)

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Survive the Game, 2021.Directed by James Cullen Bressack. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Bruce Willis, Sarah Roemer, Donna D’Errico, Zack Ward, Sean Kanan, Kate Katzman, Swen Temmel, and Michael Sirow.SYNOPSIS:When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Drive My Car

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Drive My Car, 2021.Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada, Park Yurim, Jin Daeyeon, Sonia Yuan, Ahn Hwitae, Perry Dizon, and Satoko Abe.SYNOPSIS:Yûsuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.The prologue of Drive My Car is almost a […]

Movie Review – Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage. 2021Directed by Andy Serkis Starring Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Reid Scott, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, and Peggy LuSYNOPSIS:Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters.A one-note joke has never been so aggressively annoying. In defense of […]

Movie Review – Bergman Island (2021)

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Bergman Island, 2021Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. Starring Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie, Wouter Hendrickx, Joel Spira, Clara Strauch, Hampus Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Kerstin Brunnberg, Melinda Kinnaman, and Stig Björkman.SYNOPSIS:A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, 2021.Written and Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Starring Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, and Aoba Kawai.SYNOPSIS:An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the […]