Monument

CIFF 2024: The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells, Time Passages, Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts | Festivals & Awards

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Amidst the grim offerings of the Chicago International Film Festival, I found myself comforted by a trio of documentaries, which enchant in their reminder that the hope of renewal and transformation is never too far away. A son trying to connect with his mother amid her late-stage dementia, the construction of an iconic Chicago monument, … Read more

Shaun of the Dead Is an Adoring Monument to George A. Romero

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In Edgar Wright’s classic sitcom Spaced, there was an episode (Art) where Tim (Simon Pegg) was obsessed with playing Resident Evil 2. He gets so engrossed in it that he cannot tell reality from fiction (the dose of amphetamines probably didn’t help either), and subsequently batters some arty types in his hallucinatory panic. It’s the … Read more