A horror film set in the 1980s with a synthesizer score is nothing new. But “Dead Mail,” the second feature from directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, manages to find a fresh angle on the nostalgic ...

The movie owes its existence to a real-life body horror that Cronenberg experienced when his wife of 43 years, Carolyn, was diagnosed with a cancer that ravaged her body and ultimately took her life.

Blichfieldt's "burn it all down" approach creates turbulence and upset while walking over very well-trod ground.

A dizzying, life-affirming anthem about how it’s never too late to find your way home in the arms of your lover, even if you may have lost your way.

The President’s Wife” is most concerned with uplifting its lead lady in all her schemes, sarcasm, and competence, and this it ...

The rest of the movie trails after Riley as she works up the nerve to do what the audience (and, eventually, its surrogate) ...

For Coogler, the scope, twists, and turns of the “Sinners” were all a part of his curation process. “I wanted the movie to feel like music and to have an aggressively dynamic range. To me, “Sinners” ...

We’ve seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes variations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories debuted way back in 1887, and it seems like every few years now, we get a new take on the master logician. The CW is ...

Ang Lee’s ahead-of-its-time classic “ The Wedding Banquet ” was marked by the same qualities too, in navigating the tale of a ...

In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of ...

Like the Chicago International Film Festival, CLFF spans multiple movie venues, and, over its four decades, it has bounced around, now primarily calling the Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago’s ...

“A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of summer blockbusters that included the original “Back to the Future,” ...