Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration and Kellyanne Conway’s coining of the term “alternative facts,” Amazon sales of George Orwell’s classic, 1984, surged by..
When trying to explain the many unique sequences in Hamid Rahmanian’s shadow puppet epic “Feathers of Fire,” it’s hard to narrow down one that stands..
From the vantage point of 2017, it’s kind of ridiculous that Girls was ever controversial. In hindsight, all the criticisms of the show—that it promoted..
The prevailing wisdom behind film theory is that there is really no such thing as “reading too much” into a film. In analyzing a movie,..
It’s 1991, and Paul Haggis, the writer and director of Crash, is carjacked outside a Blockbuster with his wife. Two guys with guns steal his..
It’s 4 p.m. on the last of four days at Chicago’s Lollapalooza Festival and the heat, along with the crowd’s anticipation, is rising. California indie..
In contrast to some of the more cerebral brands of scary movies that we’ve looked at this month, we close out your Netflix Halloween season..
Happy Halloween from The Netflix Club! This month, we’ll be doubling down on our output, focusing exclusively on horror movies with a new essay every..
“I’m not just a rapper,” Femdot said to me. “I’m not just a scientist,” Femi said to me. Femi Adigun would sit next to me..
After a long day of biking and singing, local band Close Kept took the stage at Township along with Terriers and Faux Co to finish..
