Movie Review: They Shall Not Grow Old
I was fortunate enough in junior high and high school to have seen real life World War I veterans. Seeing real people like that made …
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Movie Review: Fyre
Admit it. You WANTED to read this review more because of the picture of hot girls running on a beach partying. That instinct is at …
Movie Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
As the credits started rolling on Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, I slowly got out of my seat. I saw the movie with a friend, …
Movie Review: American Animals
In general, heist movies are about one of two things. 1) Really smart, larger than live characters just owning the heist with perfectly executed precision …
Movie Review: Dark Horse
Dark Horse is the documentary version of Seabiscuit. If you are in need of a rousing, lovely bucking of establishment trends and underdog stories, Dark …
‘Mad As Hell’ Wants You to Fight for What You Believe In
Passion manifests itself in a person’s life in weird and unexpected ways. The key for me is to infuse passion at one point in your …
Movie Review: Citizenfour
The NSA scandal is one of the great faults of the Obama presidency, and one of the defining debates of the internet age. Citizenfour is …
Movie Review: Life Itself
There is no way I can write objectively about Roger Ebert. As a slightly larger bespectacled cinephile Chicagoan, I tended to resonate with the man …
Movie Review: Fed Up
Ronald McDonald never looked so sinister. Fed Up takes aim at the obesity epidemic, attempting to inform the public about how systemic the problem is …
Movie Review: The Act of Killing
What happens to brutal dictators like Stalin or Castro in the aftermath of their atrocities? The Act of Killing suggests that it stays with you …