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Check out this week’s issue for our review of Escape From Tomorrow, a guerrilla movie shot at Disneyland and Disney World by actors and crew who were posing as guests at the parks. Ben Sachs recommends Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine, a shorts program from the School of the Art Institute alumnus. And we’ve got new reviews of All Is Lost, with Robert Redford as a solitary boatman lost at sea; Bad Grandpa, the latest from Jackass auteurs Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine; Carrie, with Chloe Grace Moretz taking over for Sissy Spacek as the telekinetic prom queen; The Counselor, a tale of conniving drug dealers south of the border, from director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Cormac McCarthy; The Gamma People, a 50s sci-fi relic about an Eastern European village controlled by a mad scientist; and Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, a program of experimental work by the local artist.
This weekend also brings the third Englewood International Film Festival at Chatham 14 and other locations, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival at Music Box and Facets Cinematheque, and Chris & Heather’s Halloween Hootenanny, with music and 16-millimeter trailers, at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn.
