Marking his debut as a writer/director, actor Jake Johnson brings us his funny and mostly charming take on reality shows, Self Reliance, in which he plays Tommy, a middle-aged guy […]
If you deliberately turn up for a movie starring Jason Statham, I’m guessing The Beekeeper is exactly the type of movie you’re hoping will play. Directed by David Ayer (Fury, […]
Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes was published in 2002, a non-fiction guide for parents on the cliques and exclusionary behavior teen girls engage in during their formative high school […]
Winter seems to finally be here! The forecast says heavy snow on Friday, but it’s Chicago and the events are still coming. Whether you have tickets to the soldout GCW […]
Here it is, everybody: the first truly great film of 2024 that isn’t a holdover from 2023. (A handful of movies are set for release in January and February that […]
If 2023 didn’t satiate your need to see Lily Gladstone be awesome in both The Unknown Country and her award-winning performance in Killers of the Flower Moon, you have one […]
By the time “Under the Big Tree” is over, we have a greater understanding of the Siegels. Whitney (Emma Stone) is a parasite. We see it in episodes two and […]
The Siegel marriage has seemed off from the beginning. Ignoring the weird sex and the utterly repellant people, when you look at Whitney’s (Emma Stone) and Asher’s (Nathan Fielder) vacant […]
This was a big year for finality in television. A lot of amazing shows ended, and most of them stuck the landing perfectly. Similar to how packed 2023 was for […]
Part of the issue with director and co-writer Matt Brown’s Freud’s Last Session is that it can’t decide what the central core of its story actually is. Certainly, a film […]
This year has been a very good one for the kind of films I’m naturally drawn to, films without much flash or special effects but with real, authentic stories about […]
A slight and silly PG-13 horror film with a hefty pedigree (at least as far as producers go—James Wan and Jason Blum), Night Swim centers on the Waller family, with […]
