The Chicago Underground Film Festival opens with What I Love About Concrete, a high school fantasy grounded in Memphis.
by J.R. Jones
I always look forward to the Chicago Underground Film Festival, not because the offerings are uniformly great—truth be told, they're a total crap shoot—but because they're almost always original. There are no remakes, sequels, or adaptations of best-selling young-adult trilogies; no TV spinoffs or video-game dramatizations or major motion pictures inspired by Funny or Die clips.…[ Read more ]