Movie Review: Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant represents everything that is wrong with nostalgia based moviemaking. Let’s use a transcendent, genre subverting franchise to tell the SAME story but with …
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Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Guardians of the Galaxy injects the already pretty fun Marvel universe with a dose of wacky hijinks. In my review I called it Star …
Movie Review: Win It All
It’s easy to see why Joe Swanberg found his muse in Jake Johnson. Both share a Northside Chicago upbringing, an affinity to dive bar drinking, …
Movie Review: The Discovery
There are many great sins in movie making, but The Discovery commits the biggest one. Boasting a terrific premise with a stellar cast, the movie …
Movie Review: Free Fire
Free Fire bummed me out. A movie with a pretty sterling pedigree of director, writer, and actors with a classy, fun premise feels like a …
Movie Review: The Lost City of Z
Millennials might not know what Apocalypse Now is. But back in the day, that movie used the Vietnam War as an allegory for an American …
Movie Review: Colossal
Colossal is the unholy offspring of an Asian monster movie and an indie “back to the hometown” flick. Wait….unholy is incorrect. What’s the word? Unexpected, …
Movie Review: The Fate of the Furious
In hindsight, I’m mad at myself for not seeing the insane franchise potential of The Fast and the Furious movies. Awesome cars doing awesome stunts, …
Movie Review: The Case for Christ
The Case for Christ is God’s Not Dead during the Reagan Era. Adapting the Lee Strobel book into a feature film, Pure Flix uses their …
Movie Review: Your Name
Movies like Your Name are why I like to review movies. You’re sitting there, with hype giving you high expectations for a movie (it was …