Chicago Maroon

UT veteran goes pro with Nightmare-ish tale of love

By Matt Zakosek
January 23, 2009

Top 5 Films of 2008

By Matt Zakosek
January 9, 2009

Milk tells powerful story, but doesn’t reduce Harvey to a figurehead

By Matt Zakosek
December 2, 2008

Swept under the rug no longer

By Matt Zakosek
November 7, 2008

A-list stars take backseat to supporting actors

By Matt Zakosek
October 10, 2008

Media satire shows how to lose fans and alienate audiences

By Matt Zakosek
October 4, 2008

With Nick and Norah, it’s love at first ringtone

By Matt Zakosek
October 4, 2008

City Art

By Matt Zakosek
September 25, 2008

Harold and Kumar return, still stoned and savvy

By Matt Zakosek
April 24, 2008

Hostel influence can’t spoil Ruins’s B-movie charm

By Matt Zakosek
April 8, 2008

Requiem for Heath: a promising career cut short

By Matt Zakosek
January 29, 2008

Top Five Movies of 2007—Matt Zakosek

By Matt Zakosek
January 11, 2008

Finding peace for all baseball, history buffs

By Matt Zakosek
May 11, 2007

Alum revisits Boy Culture at U of C

By Matt Zakosek
April 13, 2007

Terabithia chooses character over action

By Matt Zakosek
February 16, 2007

Does acclaimed Turkish film deserve chillier reception?

By Matt Zakosek
February 16, 2007

Top 5 Films of 2006—Matt Zakosek

By Matt Zakosek
January 9, 2007

Reeling rolls in its 25th anniversary year with diverse programming

By Matt Zakosek
November 3, 2006

Lively Vic set showcase Ladytron’s best material

By Matt Zakosek
October 13, 2006

Foley’s real folly was staying in the closet

By Matt Zakosek
October 9, 2006

Energetic Mars Volta set sends Aragon into orbit

By Matt Zakosek
October 1, 2006

Guggenheim and Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: good movie, great message

By Matt Zakosek
June 2, 2006

Guggenheim and Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: good movie, great message

By Matt Zakosek
June 2, 2006

Queers should shun Cheney, McGreevey

By Matt Zakosek
June 2, 2006

Sarah Waters needs to Watch out for new time periods, too many characters

By Matt Zakosek
May 26, 2006

Sarah Waters needs to Watch out for new time periods, too many characters

By Matt Zakosek
May 26, 2006

Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM! explodes with a young playwright’s promise

By Matt Zakosek
May 23, 2006

Gore urges us to accept An Inconvenient Truth

By Matt Zakosek
May 9, 2006

Gore urges us to accept An Inconvenient Truth

By Matt Zakosek
May 9, 2006

MAB announces lineup for Summer Breeze

By Matt Zakosek
May 5, 2006

Despite contrivances, these Boots were made for watching

By Matt Zakosek
April 28, 2006

Director Jason Reitman discusses his controversial Thank You for Smoking

By Matt Zakosek
April 4, 2006

Thank You for Smoking sets tobacco culture ablaze

By Matt Zakosek
March 31, 2006

New Chappelle doc shows Davey from the Block

By Matt Zakosek
March 7, 2006

MAB brings Jeff Tweedy to Mandel

By Matt Zakosek
February 14, 2006

Brokeback finds audiences in both the city and suburbs

By Matt Zakosek
January 26, 2006

New sado-thrillers defile the legacy of horror filmsand cheat audiences

By Matt Zakosek
January 13, 2006

Neil Jordan dishes out familiar themes, but this is no Breakfast of champions

By Matt Zakosek
January 6, 2006

Bohemia lives in Columbus’s shockingly strong Rent

By Matt Zakosek
November 29, 2005

Madonna’s Confession: My new album could be so much more

By Matt Zakosek
November 22, 2005

Beck remains vital with the help of his “Black Tambourine”

By Matt Zakosek
September 30, 2005

With Lunar Park, Ellis swaps hubris for humanity

By Matt Zakosek
September 13, 2005

Voices Classics: Phair moved from suburbs to rock glory with Exile

By Matt Zakosek
June 3, 2005

MAB announces Summer Breeze acts

By Matt Zakosek
May 3, 2005

Solondz’s Palindromes is a work of outrageand art

By Matt Zakosek
April 29, 2005

Hot Hot Heat serve up Elevator music rather than remake the Breakdown

By Matt Zakosek
April 15, 2005

Grey’s Anatomy refuses to see the world in simple black and white

By Matt Zakosek
April 12, 2005

Thanks to Stoneking, Theatre Building’s Hedwig is anything but a drag

By Matt Zakosek
April 3, 2005

New films prove sex sells, but think twice before giving them your money

By Matt Zakosek
March 4, 2005

Brashares shares divine secrets of her Sisterhood with teens, one grown guy

By Matt Zakosek
February 15, 2005

Shortcut – Plain White T’s

By Matt Zakosek
February 4, 2005

Third time not the charm for Brashares’ Pants

By Matt Zakosek
January 25, 2005

Santa brings three great films, one lump of coal

By Matt Zakosek
January 7, 2005

Examining Church and State through film

By Matt Zakosek
November 30, 2004

Lack of complexity makes Kinsey a flaccid biopic

By Matt Zakosek
November 21, 2004

Playboy receives comeuppance in tepid remake

By Matt Zakosek
October 27, 2004

A shocking thing about Manson CD: It doesn’t suck

By Matt Zakosek
October 17, 2004

New Waters flick gives bad taste a bad name

By Matt Zakosek
October 6, 2004

Matt picks the best (and worst) movies of the summer

By Matt Zakosek
October 2, 2004

Becky Sharp is regally bland in Mira Nair’s eastern take on Vanity Fair

By Matt Zakosek
September 18, 2004

Saved! asks WWJD: What Would Jena Do?

By Matt Zakosek
June 8, 2004

Would you like fries with that? Spurlock speaks

By Matt Zakosek
May 18, 2004

New documentary is a Super Size success

By Matt Zakosek
May 11, 2004

Revolutionary Rent brings la vie boheme from Broadway to Chicago

By Matt Zakosek
May 7, 2004

Remake of horror classic is fresh out of brains

By Matt Zakosek
April 2, 2004

Remake of horror classic is fresh out of brains

By Matt Zakosek
April 2, 2004

Oscars: root for Robbins, keep your fingers crossed for Castle-Hughes

By Matt Zakosek
February 27, 2004

Delirium Records channels Madonna with mixed-bag collection of covers

By Matt Zakosek
February 20, 2004

Timberlake makes a boob of himself during Super Bowl halftime show performance

By Matt Zakosek
February 3, 2004

Pop princess Spears to Material Mom: “Kiss me, baby, one more time”

By Matt Zakosek
January 30, 2004

Margaret Cho discusses Britney, Justin, and those White House galas

By Matt Zakosek
January 13, 2004

Burton’s Big Fish provides plenty to carp about

By Matt Zakosek
January 12, 2004

Putting the B.S. back in CBS

By Matt Zakosek
November 18, 2003

Amanda Geppert talks film festivals, parties on Kimbark, and Guinness

By Matt Zakosek
November 7, 2003

Homosexual filmmakers deal with AIDS, female musicians, and relationships

By Matt Zakosek
November 4, 2003

Dennis and Sharon to Dorff: Won’t you be my neighbor?

By Matt Zakosek
October 6, 2003

A time to kill

By Matt Zakosek
August 22, 2003

Sextet and the city

By Matt Zakosek
July 11, 2003