Every few years, in regular cycles, we’re reminded of the power of genre fiction. The success of Star Wars made…
Opening ThisWeek Begin Again Opens Wed., July 2 at Guild 45th and other theaters. Rated R. 104 minutes. What songwriter hasn’t…
Wednesday, July 2 Iman Raad & Shahrzad Changalvaee The poster work of Raad and Changalvaee is full of gorgeous, flowing…
Alfred Hitchcock called them the “plausibilists”—those nitpickers who can’t suspend disbelief long enough to swallow a movie’s colorful premise and…
The cult massacre-by-suicide popularly known as Jonestown took place on November 18, 1978, long before the embrace of the Internet….
In this French culinary comedy, the jokes are often corny and the plot twists as predictable as our hero’s classic…
This documentary questions assumptions long accepted as gospel: that higher education is the key to success; that it’s worth any…
When this doc played the film festival last year, the success of Initiative 502 was still fresh in our minds….
You wouldn’t think it’d be hard to find a single cup of coffee in all of Berlin, but this is…
I want to hate the Koch brothers. You want to hate the Koch brothers. Yet this clumsy advocacy doc makes…
To make a good documentary, you need to have a good subject. But more important, you have to be lucky….
Openings & Events Docomomo WEWA Night That very confusing series of acronyms you see there stands for ”Documentation and Conservation…
Openings & Events Docomomo WEWA Night That very confusing series of acronyms you see there stands for ”Documentation and Conservation…
Author Events Jeffery Renard Allen He based his new novel Song of the Shank on the 19th century figure of…
Lamar Van Dyke can’t remember when exactly her first Dyke March was, but she does remember one thing: It was…
It was with a $35,000 Kickstarter campaign two years ago that Capitol Hill photographer Matika Wilbur, a member of the…
Opening ThisWeek Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case Runs Fri., June 27–Thurs., July 3 at Northwest Film Forum. Not rated. 86 minutes….
Thursday, June 26 Fabrice Monteiro You can’t get more summery than this photo exhibit by the Belgium-born, Senegal-based photographer, called…
The Rover Opens Fri., June 20 at Sundance and other Theaters. Rated R. 102 minutes. Like a Road Warrior writ…
Opens Fri., June 20 at Guild 45th and Lincoln Square. Rated R. 85 minutes. Written and directed by Gillian Robespierre,…
