2024 Chicago International Film Festival Movie Review: Nightbitch

2024 Chicago International Film Festival Movie Review: Nightbitch

  Amy Adams gives one of the best performances of 2024 in Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s uneven horror dramedy about the superpowers and stress of being a wife and mother. Adams stars Mother, a once-promising artist who puts her career on hold after she gets pregnant and becomes a stay-at-home wife and mother. Her husband (Scoot McNairy) has a job that sees him traveling throughout the week and only being home on the weekends. The stress…

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2024 Chicago International Film Festival: 10 Movies To Be Excited About

2024 Chicago International Film Festival: 10 Movies To Be Excited About

The 2024 Chicago International Film Festival kicks off this week, and it is a film festival that I truly love. This was the first festival that I attended back in 2008, and I have attended it every year since. It is a great film festival that does not get the love and attention of some higher-profile festivals but deserves to be mentioned as one of the best film festivals in North America. It highlights so…

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Movie Review: Saturday Night

Movie Review: Saturday Night

  I enjoyed watching Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night. I found it funny, energetic, and overall entertaining. But something was missing for me as I left the theater, and I couldn’t put my finger on it right away. It then came to me that watching Saturday Night was like watching the finale of a TV show or mini-series where I hadn’t watched any of the previous episodes. I’m not the biggest TV watcher, but if I…

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