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Award-winning multi-hyphenate filmmaker Justin Simien is known for his innovative storytelling and unique cinematic style. He has been a champion for change in Hollywood in front of and behind the camera since his 2014 directorial debut, “Dear White People.” Following the success of that film, the Texas native went on to write, direct, and produce the…

“Do you see the wolves in this picture,” Ernest Burkhardt (Leonardo DiCaprio) reads aloud as he works his way through a children’s book early in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The wolves aren’t really hidden at all, and they won’t be in the film that follows either, a masterful historical drama about evil…

Stephen Apkon co-directed the very important documentary, “Disturbing The Peace,” about a group of Israelis and Palestinians whose mission is to interrupt the cycle of violence in the Middle East and work towards peace. It made such an impact on our audience when it was shown at our Ebertfest Film Festival, that it won the very…

Sergei Prokofiev’s orchestral classic Peter and the Wolf has been adapted countless times either as a recording, performance, or animated film. Can anything new be brought to the story or the music? U2’s Bono and frequent collaborators Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer put together their own recorded version and illustrated companion book in 2003 as a…

Matt writes: On October 7th, the world lost one of its greatest filmmakers when Terence Davies passed away at age 77. He left us with numerous masterworks released over the past half-century including “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” “The Long Day Closes,” “The House of Mirth” and “The Deep Blue Sea.” When I interviewed him about…