Chicago International Film Festival Must-Watch Films

As the 55th Chicago International Film Festival starts up on Wednesday night, Solzy at the Movies brings you the seven films that you have to watch. The action starts on October 16 with not one but two films.  Motherless Brooklyn opens up the festival.  In a change from recent years, Zombieland: Double Tap opens up the After Dark program.  All in all, there are 132 feature films playing! Gala Knives Out: The Rian Johnson mystery…

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Sundance 2019: Honey Boy

Premiering at Sundance, Honey Boy is an extremely personal film for actor-screenwriter Shia LaBeouf in telling a fictionalized version of his life story. Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges portray Otis Lort a decade apart at 12 and 22 years old, respectively.  This leads to back and forth storytelling that takes place in 1995 and 2005.  When we first meet Otis, he’s doing stunt work on a film that is likely a stand-in for the first Transformers film. …

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