Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture | Festivals & Awards
“His name is Nuppeppo. Japanese monster,” the man sitting next to us said, grimacing and holding up his fingers like claws. He was wearing a…
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Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers | Features
My eighth-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She always told us not to be a bump on a log if she saw that we weren’t…
It’s Epic to Live a Normal Life: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on “Train Dreams” | Interviews
Lyrical and elegiac even while being rooted in hope and tenderness, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” moves with the grace of a liturgy. The film…
A Source of Inspiration: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value” | Interviews
In Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” a once-revered Norwegian filmmaker struggles to mount a deeply personal project related to his family history, going so far as…
From Chicago to the World: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert | Roger Ebert
Before being a friend and colleague, I was a fan. In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a solitary jock and pop…
The second season of ‘Palm Royale’ succeeds by embracing its funny side | TV/Streaming
I didn’t like the first season of Apple’s “Palm Royale.” Yes, it was pretty to look at, but there wasn’t much to say, and the…
No Other Land: Surviving a Crushing Machine | Far Flungers
Omer M. Mozaffar teaches at Loyola University Chicago, where he is the Muslim Chaplain, teaching courses in Theology and Literature. He has given thousands of…
‘Landman’ might be the stupidest fracking show on TV | TV/Streaming
Taylor Sheridan’s television empire can be marked by a few recurring themes: Western or neo-Western thematic architecture, casts stuffed with aging former stars cashing checks…
We Live in Time: Joachim Trier on “Sentimental Value” | Interviews
A profoundly moving portrait of a family reckoning with the painful memories embedded deep within the walls of their ancestral home, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value”…