Holy Ground peels back layers of the windy city’s rich history we, as Chicago natives, were previously unexposed to. Michael Jolls’ documentary (now streaming on YouTube) chronicles Chicago’s history ...
By Oscar Aitchison. Both a grounded and wildly ambitious quasi-epic that soars with genuine unique craftsmanship at its best but paces itself out of feeling like a fully fledged riot. Religion as a f...
Since the debut of Taken in 2008, action films centering on parents reducing their kidnapped children have become so common that they formed something of their own subgenre. Taken proved that audience...
Some films don’t just revisit history — they drag you right into the heat of it. Trace Pope’s Silence = Death is one of those shorts, a tense and deeply felt dramatization of a moment when a...
Shooting The Western With Dean Semler. By Jonah Rice. Among the more decorated figures his craft has to offer, Australian cinematographer Dean Semler debuted in the 1970s with a film called Moving On ...
