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When adapting Agatha Christie for the big or small screen, it’s important that the production applies a liberal amount of “cheek.” Cheek being a certain amount of impertinence, to not take things [...]

One of the unfortunate truisms of cinema is that most any presentation of a Christian religion onscreen tends to be a less than flattering portrayal. I enjoyed the movie CONCLAVE last year and [...]

Hello, friends and followers! The Chicago Indie Critics have announced our choices for the best in film 2025 with our Windie Awards and the big winner was SINNERS. SINNERS took home 10 prizes [...]

2025 turned out to be a terrific year for film with plenty of epic Oscar contenders, some of the most acclaimed horror entries in many a moon, and a superhero reboot that was the talk of Twitter [...]

The new comedy MARTY SUPREME ostensibly is a sports film about a fictional 1950s table tennis star named Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) and his undying ambition to turn his talents, be it with [...]

Tone can be a tricky thing in movies. Those in a comedy must not know they’re in a comedy. Instead, the characters in THE BIRDCAGE must act like a conservative senator coming to their gay [...]

James Cameron is truly a visionary director whose worldbuilding in the AVATAR movies is almost unparalleled. The visual effects and CGI-rendered imagery in his third AVATAR film are as [...]

Back in August of this year, it was my privilege to guest on the podcast KICKING THE SEAT with host, friend, and fellow film critic Ian Simmons to discuss a documentary playing the festival [...]

Depression and grief are tricky themes to pull off in cinema. It is excruciating enough to watch people experience loss in real life, even more difficult to abide watching it transpire onscreen [...]

By the time an average American youth reaches 18 years of age, they will have witnessed some 40,000 simulated murders across the entertainment landscape. Needless to say, filmmaker Rian Johnson [...]