Art has always imitated life. At any given point, cinema has always reflected the circumstances surrounding it, be it New Hollywood adopting an angrier, more paranoid approach in the post-Watergate ...

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s ...

I saw a lot of entertaining and memorable movies at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival, but didn’t expect to enjoy so many of them. Dead Man’s Wire ended up ranking high amongst my favorite ...