In Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” horror, cinema, and desire are intertwined. Though similar in some…
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On August 3th, 2026, as I was writing to wish Professor Robert Thurman a happy birthday, I was saddened to…
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After an unlikely beginning as a series of NBC Sports TV commercials in 2013 and a spectacular, awards-spangled run on…
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One of the few ingenious ideas Lucasfilm has had across its increasingly stale Disney+ “Star Wars” era has been handing…
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How do you navigate the highs and lows of high school when you also have a terminally ill parent? This…
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The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many…
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And so the doors close on another year of the Fantasia International Film Festival—my seventh or eighth year covering in…
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We all know Chicago is a sports town that has been home to legends on a variety of basketball courts,…
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There’s no easier way to get people angry these days than to make a movie out of a story they…
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Dania Bdeir’s “Warsha” is one of my favorite kinds of short films. In a tight fifteen minutes, it takes the…
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