2017 Warm Weather Movie Preview: July
July is the reason I love the movies. The choices this month are pretty great for most of the month, including really good sequels, some …
2017
Movie Review: War Machine
Within War Machine is a great movie…somewhere. I could be wrong. Perhaps bureaucracy of war will never be as captivating or potent as a battle. …
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 …
2017 Warm Weather Movie Preview: June
Congratulations for leaving school kids! June has some real hot garbage to serve you this year, save Miami, child drivers, and especially California, who knows …
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, …