A Preview of the 2018 Chicago Critics Film Festival
The Chicago Film Critics Association’s 6th annual film festival (May 4-10) features some of the year’s best films that might otherwise fly under your radar. […]
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Alcohollywood Podcast: Ep. 327 – The Cloverfield Paradox (328)
Jared’s been zapped into another dimension, so Jon Espino of The Young Folks and HollywoodChicago.com joins Clint to investigate the mysteries of Netflix’s Super Bowl-marketed […]
Downrange Review: Shudder’s Roadside Sniper Thriller Misses the Mark
The latest from Japanese horror schlockmeister Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) makes a tedious mess out of its stripped-down, gory premise. On a lonely stretch […]
The Endless Review: Chilling, Thought-Provoking Cult Horror On a Budget
Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s otherworldly microbudget thriller combines cult dynamics and Lovecraftian horror to deliver something remarkably new. (Editor’s note: For more of our […]
The Endless: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on Lovecraft, Worldbuilding and the Thrills of Indie Filmmaking
photography credit: Sela Sheloni Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discuss the high-concept suspense of their microbudget indie thriller The Endless, its connections to previous films, […]
Lost in Space (1998) w/ Lauren Faits of She-Ra Progressive of Power
Danger, Will Robinson! With Netflix’s reboot of Lost in Space coming out today, we (along with Lauren Faits, co-host of She-Ra: Progressive of Power) decided to […]
Truth or Dare Review: Blumhouse’s Latest Delivers Modest Sleepover Scares
The latest microbudget spook-em-up from Blumhouse Productions is long on dares and short on scares. Hoping to cash in on the success of the Ouija […]
You Were Never Really Here Review: A Masterwork of Brutal Grindhouse Poetry
Lynne Ramsay follows We Need to Talk About Kevin with another masterwork on the cyclical traumas of violence, sporting a poetically grotesque performance from a […]
13 Assassins (2010) w/Twin Cinema
This week, Marshall, co-host of our Youtube show Twin Cinema, joins us to talk about Takashi Miike’s bloody Japanese samurai flick 13 Assassins! When an […]
OSCAR SPECIAL: Hell or High Water (2016) w/Jacob Oller
It’s Oscar season once again, and Film Twitter impresario Jacob Oller (@JacobOller) joins us to talk about David McKenzie’s hard-hitting crime thriller/neo-Western Hell or High Water! […]