John Candy

2025 Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Comedy, Directing, Film Festivals, Indie Films, Interviews, Now Playing

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A Call for Peace and Human Connection: Hikari on “Rental Family”

by Matt Fagerholm

November 17, 2025

As I sat in my favorite movie palace, the Music Box Theatre, waiting for my wife—Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin—to arrive for that evening’s eagerly awaited Chicago International Film Festival

2025 Films, Chicago, Comedy, Documentaries

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On Borrowed Time: The Beauty of “John Candy: I Like Me”

by Matt Fagerholm

October 8, 2025

“I remember John Candy’s presence much more clearly than that of John Hughes,” Gaby Hoffmann told me during our interview in 2012, after I asked her about her memories of

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