The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Akira Kurosawa's classic, Ran, overtook Thunderbolts* at the box office with an impressive per theater average.

John Maclean remixes the samurai genre with dark humour, a blustery British backdrop, and a fiercely relatable teen lead to ...

As one waits, seated, for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies ...

Julia Izumi’s self-absorbed solo show offers weak humor, clunky staging, and little emotional payoff beneath its quirky ...

Given a very Spike title of Highest 2 Lowest, the Denzel Washington vehicle is expectedly brimming with the director’s signature expressive filmmaking—wildly cubist jump cut coverage within ...

June 6Spooky Action Theater1810 16th St., N.W.Pay-What-You-Can: May 2All other performances: $35Spookyaction.org For Lucy ...

Kristen Stewart's directing debut got the cold shoulder while Mubi, the distributor behind "The Substance," ponied up for "Die, My Love," starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison.

Helmer Spike Lee's forthcoming film Highest 2 Lowest starring Denzel Washington, tops all the rest of the rankings within the ...

Netflix will pay Denzel Washington $35 million to star in 'Here Comes the Flood,' matching the paycheck for Spike Lee’s 'Highest 2 Lowest.' ...

The presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or took Denzel Washington by surprise at Cannes, where he and Spike Lee unveiled their latest collaboration, the thriller ‘Highest 2 ...

The reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful 1963 police procedural about an abduction and ransom plot also stars ...