- Night Moves
This year’s edition of the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival kicks off Friday with Freedom Summer, a strong documentary about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s summer 1964 campaign to register black voters in Mississippi. Check out our coverage of the festival, with six new reviews. Also this week, we recommend The Case Against 8, about the legal battle to have California’s ban on same-sex marriage struck down; Mother Joan of the Angels, a 1960 Polish shocker about a Catholic nun possessed by demons; Night Moves, the latest from writer-director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy), with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard as eco-terrorists plotting to blow up a hydroelectric dam; and The Signal, a paranoid sci-fi mystery about three young people who, chasing after a mysterious hacker, come in contact with an alien life force.
