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by Rebecca Martin
October 31, 2026
We often hear that you view a film through the lens of your own experience. For me, film has always worked the other way around too: it expands my experience
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by Rebecca Martin Fagerholm and Matt Fagerholm
October 16, 2026
All That Seeing Allows by Matt Fagerholm Aside from Alex Gibney’s “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie,” which is slowly making its way around the country in far too
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by Megan Henderson
October 7, 2026
*This article contains major spoilers for Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie”* Every girl remembers at exactly what age and where she was when she got her first period. At least, I know
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by Megan Henderson
October 2, 2026
“Now when you picture yourself, do you like what you conceive? Honestly, if you could be anyone, but instead you’re you?” – Heaven Above Rowen, 2026 To know one’s true
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by Rebecca Martin
August 3, 2026
As a millennial, my world is framed slightly differently than that of Gen-Z, yet given our current cultural and political climate, it is easy to see exactly where we are
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by Megan Henderson
July 31, 2026
For some fascinating reason, Gen Z is scared of sex. They don’t want to talk about it, barely want to experience it, and definitely don’t want to see it on
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by Megan Henderson
July 9, 2026
What makes a family? Is it our blood relatives, assigned to us at birth? Or is it the people we meet along the way and accept as our own kin?
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by Rebecca Martin Fagerholm and Matt Fagerholm
June 12, 2026
Chicago is buzzing with energy this month as we celebrate the incredible impact of women-led and women-owned businesses in the film community. The Independent Film Exhibition Conference (IND/EX), running June
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by Rebecca Martin
May 18, 2026
“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in
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by Rebecca Martin
May 5, 2026
This month’s lineup leans heavily into documentaries, with “The Invite” as the lone outlier. Watching these films, I kept circling back to my own life—each one opening up a different
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by Rebecca Martin
April 16, 2026
Some films invite passive observation; others refuse distance altogether, demanding a more intimate kind of surrender. The selections in the April 2026 Femme Film Series—”The Chronology of Water,” “My NDA,”
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by Rebecca Martin
March 8, 2026
For me, movies and meaning are inseparable; I process my daily life through this art form. The cinema is not just entertainment—it’s a vital lens through which I understand the
