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How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K
John Carpenter Returns with Peacock Project That Doesn’t Deserve His Name
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter Are the Old Blood That Enlivens Dexter: New Blood
Unearthing Skeletons: John Carpenter on Lost Themes III and Scoring Halloween
Once Upon a Time in Haddonfield: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Halloween
“The Thing” That Wouldn’t Die: On the Legacy of John Carpenter’s Classic Film
Impossible to Explain: A Few Words with John Carpenter
Showtime’s “Dexter: Resurrection” Keeps the Killer Thriller Franchise’s Blood Flowing
Cannes 2025 Video #7: Critics’ Roundtable
What to Watch on Netflix: March 2025
10 Great Horror Films from 2024 (and Where to Watch Them)
Classic Horror Characters Get Arcade Treatment in Clever “RetroRealms”
Justin Baldoni Wants You to Believe
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2024
The Future Was Now Warps Through the Seminal Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
All About Suspense: Damian Mc Carthy on Oddity
DC/DOX — Washington DC’s Documentary Film Festival in its Second Year
Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
Dear Tim Cook: Be a Decent Human Being and Delete this Revolting Apple Ad
Sundance 2024: I Saw the TV Glow, Thelma, Freaky Tales
Coffee Table Books on The Wicker Man and Halloween Should Satisfy Horror Fans
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2023
Second Sight Releases Stellar 4K Versions of Crimes of the Future, It Follows
TIFF 2023: The Teachers’ Lounge, The Dead Don’t Hurt, Dream Scenario
TIFF 2023: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game is a Promising Tribute to the Bloody Original
Rite of Passage: Danny and Michael Philippou on Talk to Me
What Now: The Creative Potential in the End of the Superhero Craze
The Walking Dead: Dead City Trudges Through the Ruins of a Moribund Franchise
Annihilation and the Power of Anxiety
Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Stay Weird: Highlights of the 2022 Fantastic Fest
SXSW 2022: Slash/Back, Soft & Quiet, Nika
Sundance 2022: Master, Emergency, 892
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, New Releases
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
A Preview of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
The Unloved, Part 94: The Phantom of the Opera
First Four Laika Releases Get Special Edition Blu-rays
Telluride Film Festival 2021: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Bernstein’s Wall
Book Review: Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made Presents Fascinating Alternate History
Breaking In: On the 40th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Thief Score
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
CBS’s Clarice Dilutes the Sprawling Strangeness of Its Source
HBO Max’s The Head is Chilling Escapist TV
Hal Holbrook: 1925-2021
Sundance 2021: Passing, Eight for Silver, Mass
Entertaining 30 Coins Examines Depths of Evil with Style
Ebert Symposium 2020: Part 3 Streaming Today, November 5th, 2020
Why The Thing is One of the Most Effective Horror Movies Ever Made
The Right Stuff is an Unexpectedly Gripping Workplace Drama About the Space Race
Fantasia 2020: Come True, The Dark and the Wicked, Time of Moulting, Unearth
Wilford Brimley: 1934-2020
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Ennio Morricone: 1928-2020
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2, 2020
Sundance 2020: Summertime, The Painter and the Thief
Home Entertainment Guide: January 9, 2020
A Language Possessed and Reconquered: Mati Diop on Atlantics
TIFF 2019: Atlantics, Bacurau, Zombi Child
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
30 Minutes On: “Prometheus”
From Blue Velvet to Top Gun: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Reagan Era
Stranger Things Returns with Phenomenally Entertaining Third Season
Preview of the 26th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
Thumbnails Special Edition: Our Cannes 2019 Coverage
DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Struggles to Manage Tone Amidst Flashes of Brilliance
Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests
A Look Back at the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival
Larry Cohen: 1941-2019
S. Craig Zahler on Dragged Across Concrete, Casting Mel Gibson, His Writing Process and More
Jonathan Rosenbaum on His New Book Collection, Cinematic Encounters
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 27, 2018
The Big Five-Oh: A Moviegoing Remembrance
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
RIFF 2018: Phoenix, Styx
Great Movies Return to the Big Screen at Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival
Thumbnails Special Edition: “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation in Hollywood
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 2, 2018
Spy Music: The Evolution of the Mission: Impossible Theme
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
Lateral Momentum: Leigh Whannell on Upgrade
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Celebration of Life for Mary Frances Fagan to be Held April 14th
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 15, 2018
Chinese New Year: Man’s Best Friend
30 Minutes on: Wonderstruck
Sundance 2018: Assassination Nation, Arizona, Never Goin’ Back, Summer of ‘84
Man on the Outside: The Films of Willem Dafoe
Thumbnails 10/6/17
We Should Be So Lucky: A Tribute to Harry Dean Stanton
30 Minutes on: “It” (2017)
