Movie Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Movie Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

  Daniel Craig returns as the world’s greatest detective Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel to his 2019 murder mystery that is even bigger and wilder than the first film. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Blanc is struggling. He is bored out of his mind and spends most of his days sitting in a bathtub reading or playing online video games waiting for his next great case….

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Movie Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Movie Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a movie that looks at the importance of a legacy. It looks at the legacy of the characters in the film and how important they are to their nations and the people of their nations. It looks at the legacy of its actors and how significant they are or were to the franchise and to the film community. And it looks at the legacy of the film and its…

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2022 Chicago International Film Festival Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin

2022 Chicago International Film Festival Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin

In Martin McDonagh’s latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin, Collin Ferrell plays Pádraic, a cow farmer who lives with his sister Siobhan (Kerry Condon) on Inisherin, a fictional small island off the coast of Ireland. Pádraic is a nice man. A man who goes about his days like clockwork. He works with his cows, delivers milk to the local grocer, and goes and meets his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson) at the local pub for…

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Movie Review: Amsterdam

Movie Review: Amsterdam

  There is no denying David O. Russell’s success in the 2010s. Throughout that decade, Russell made four films, The Fighter in 2010, Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, American Hustle in 2013, and Joy in 2015. Each of these films grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office and garnered tons of awards attention. All four films combined earned 26 Oscar nominations, three of them for Best Picture, five of them for Russell’s directing…

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Best of the 2022 Chicago International Film Festival

Best of the 2022 Chicago International Film Festival

The 2022 Chicago International Film Festival has officially come to a close and what a great festival it was this year. Throughout this year’s festival, I saw twenty-one movies, twenty of them being 2022 films and one being an anniversary screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was just as amazing as you’d think. Of the twenty new films I saw, there was not one movie that I would consider “bad”. There were some I wasn’t…

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