“Chained for Life” opens with a long quotation from Pauline Kael, the point of which is difficult to disagree with: actors and actresses tend to be more beautiful than the rest of us. Though the ...

What if the “freaks” had made Tod Browning’s “Freaks”? That seems to be the guiding impulse behind Aaron Schimberg’s second feature “Chained for Life” as he follows his intriguing 2013 black-and-white ...

“Do you feel like the story is exploitative?” a journalist asks actress Mabel (Jess Weixler) about the new film she’s starring in, early into Aaron Schimberg’s brilliant second feature Chained for ...

What if the “freaks” had made Tod Browning’s “Freaks”? That seems to be the guiding impulse behind j second feature “Chained for Life” as he follows his intriguing 2013 black-and-white dreamscape “Go ...

The ReelAbilities Film Festival has unveiled its full lineup of films and events for the second annual fest in Los Angeles (the New York edition launched in 2007). ReelAbilities Los Angeles runs ...

Charlie Korsmo, a Case Western Reserve University law professor and lawyer who's had roles in films such as Hook, What About Bob? and Dick Tracy, returns to the screen in Chained for Life, a new film ...

Set in a strange and mysterious hospital, this amiably ingenious drama constantly wrong-foots the audience This low-budget film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg is almost every kind of strange, ...

An actress becomes unhinged — and enlightened? — in Aaron Schimberg's knotty meta-melodrama 'Chained for Life.' By Keith Uhlich There’s something very East Coast about the introductory moments of ...

“Chained for Life” opens with a long quotation from Pauline Kael, the point of which is difficult to disagree with: actors and actresses tend to be more beautiful than the rest of us. Though the ...

What if the “freaks” had made Tod Browning’s “Freaks”? That seems to be the guiding impulse behind Aaron Schimberg’s second feature “Chained for Life” as he follows his intriguing 2013 black-and-white ...