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Film Review: Gothic Originality in ‘We Are What We Are’
CHICAGO– Finding something truly original in the horror genre is rare. The most effective scare tactics are ones that touch the heart of our familiarity and psychosis. Re-imagining a Mexican film from...
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Theater Review: Dark Souls Congregate in UrbanTheater Company’s ‘Devil Land’
CHICAGO– Insanity is often a shared phenomenon. One family member can drive another family member over the brink, an incident can break collective spirits and indulgence in religion can alter...
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Interview: Director Robert Eggers on His Season of ‘The Witch’
CHICAGO– The myth and fear of witches has fascinated personhood since religion and anti-religion have clashed. “The Witch” is a new film that takes that battle and puts it right back into 17th century...
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Film Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes in ‘The Witch’
CHICAGO– We perpetuate our fears through many sources. All mythology, religion and politics are based on what is “unknown” in our lives, and the desire to placate what frightens us is how we invent and...
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Film Review: M is for the Many Things ‘mother!’ Gave Me
CHICAGO– In a film that is unsettlingly and regally composed with deep purpose and symbolism, “mother!” fulfills the nature of what it proposes to communicate within layers of essentially rendered...
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Interview: Director Huaug Hsin-yao on ‘The Great Buddha +’ at Chicago’s Asian...
CHICAGO– Season Six is one of the most successful for Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC), as they present gems from the Asian film world that provide mind and cultural expansion. Recently, as part of...
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Podtalk: Doc Director Penny Lane on Her New Film ‘Hail Satan?’
CHICAGO– Religion, and the separation of those institutions from the “state,” is an ongoing controversy in the United States. One such religious group may have found the ultimate solution to keep that...
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Pride Podtalk: Illinois Legislators of Anti-Conversion Therapy Laws
CHICAGO– At the recent Doc 10 screening of “Pray Away,” a new documentary by Kristine Stolakis, Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy and Evanston (Illinois) Mayor Daniel Biss made introductory...
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Via Zoom: Kristine Stolakis on Her New Film ‘Pray Away’
CHICAGO– One of the crueler uses of psychology or religion is as a “cure” for gay or transgender or even fluid orientations to “become” heterosexual. Although this conversion therapy should never...
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On-Air Film Review: Creating Empathy! Review of ‘Pray Away’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 5th, 2021, reviewing the new Kristine Stolakis documentary...
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