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We all know Chicago is a sports town that has been home to legends on a variety of basketball courts, football and soccer fields, hockey rinks, and so forth. Add to that the putting green occupied by Windy City golfers, of whom there have been an increasing number in recent years. I am not a…

There’s no easier way to get people angry these days than to make a movie out of a story they already love in some other medium: A comic book. A fantasy saga. Or, as we’re seeing with Christopher Nolan’s latest cinematic tour de force, an ancient Greek epic poem. Long before the movie hit theaters,…

Dania Bdeir’s “Warsha” is one of my favorite kinds of short films. In a tight fifteen minutes, it takes the viewer on a real journey of one person’s interior feelings of entrapment, confinement, freedom, and liberation, while also providing unbearable suspense and an exhilarating surprise ending that makes the white-knuckle moments worth the agony. It…