Review: The Clean Up Crew
“Cheap Guy Ritchie copy” doesn’t sound like a particularly promising premise for a film. The plot – a crime scene cleanup crew discovers a suitcase full of money that is…
Review: Close Your Eyes – Chicago Reader
The first feature film from the great Spanish director Victor Erice in over 30 years may seem to unfold simply, but behind the illusion of something new, Erice’s previous preoccupations…
Review: Trap – Chicago Reader
In M. Night Shyamalan’s Catchan officer tells his battalion about one of the victims of the serial killer known as the Butcher. The healthy father, dismembered and scattered, is exactly…
Review: Sugarcane – Chicago Reader
All documentaries about historical and ongoing social evils must balance the historical with the human, and some do this better than others. This balance is Sugar canes greatest strength. Co-directed…
