I entered a screening of The Testament of Ann Lee much the way I enter most film screenings: knowing as little as possible. Sure, I knew Amanda Seyfried stars as […]

Based on the best-selling 2022 book by Freida McFadden and adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine, The Housemaid is something of a wild-ride thriller about Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a young woman with […]

The 61st Chicago International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, October 26 with a Chicago premiere screening of Eternity starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner. Ahead of the […]

Things Heard and Seen, based on the novel by Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear, is the latest work from the writing/directing team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert […]

The first thing you should do before seeing David Fincher’s Mank is re-watch (or watch for the first time, you cinema philistine) 1941’s Citizen Kane and maybe even do a little […]

I think the message of writer/director David Koepp’s latest, You Should Have Left, is that in a perfect world, toxic men all get their comeuppance in the end. As we […]

If it’s possible for a film to be both too much and not enough, then that’s probably the best way to describe Scoob!, the latest studio feature film that was […]

Let’s get this out of the way up front: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, like its predecessor (and smash hit, currently sitting at $144M worldwide gross), is silly from start […]

I’ve been watching a lot of movies for a long time, and yet I’d be the first to admit I have a lot to learn about the movies. I went […]

Judging a film based on a its trailer is something I’m quite vocal about avoiding. I live by the rule that trailers always get it wrong; even when they don’t, […]