Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise that first kicked off over forty years ago with Raiders of the Lost Arc. Though it is missing some of the magic and technical mastery of the previous Indiana Jones films, this is a rousing and entertaining send-off to one of cinema’s greatest heroes. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny takes place in 1969 shortly after the…

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Movie Review: Afire

Movie Review: Afire

  Following his films Phoenix, Transit, and Undine, director Christian Petzold has become one of my favorite filmmakers working today. His films are masterfully made, and he always gets great performances from his actors. His latest film, Afire, continues Petzold’s trend of great movies. But unlike his previous films which took us back to the World War II era or dealt with fantastical romances, Afire is a movie set in the real world that looks…

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Movie Review: The Unknown Country

Movie Review: The Unknown Country

  The Unknown Country is an outstanding movie that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Inspired by the likes of Wim Wenders and Agnes Varda, director Morrisa Maltz crafted an emotional and arresting journey through Midwest and Western America. In the film, Tana (Lily Gladstone), drives from Minnesota to Dallas searching for some catharsis following the death of her grandmother. She makes various stops, from gas stations to motels to an Indian Reservation her…

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Movie Review: BlackBerry

Movie Review: BlackBerry

  Growing up, it felt like everyone knew someone who had a BlackBerry, the iconic smartphone with a keyboard that produced that infectious clicking sound. I know my father had one and still talks to this day about how much he loved it. BlackBerry phones dominated the cell phone market for years in the early 2000s. But now, they don’t even sniff the surface of relevancy in the cell phone market. How did the most…

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Movie Review: The Flash

Movie Review: The Flash

  Andy Muschietti’s The Flash is a bad film. A soulless, ugly, dumb film that perfectly symbolizes everything that is wrong and has been wrong with the films of the DC Extended Universe. It is a movie that only exists for fanboys and Twitter.  Everything that happens in The Flash feels like a series of random events, characters, and plots that were thrown together in an attempt to make a movie. It follows Barry Allen/The…

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Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a revolutionary film. It is a film that pushes the boundaries of animation on film. A film that questions the conventions of superhero movies and their genre tropes. A comic book movie sequel that is as big, bold, and ambitious as any we have ever seen. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is a phenomenal comic book movie sequel. Like other great comic book movie sequels like Spider-Man 2 and The Dark…

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Movie Review: Fast X

Movie Review: Fast X

  One of the talking points around the Fast & Furious franchise is how unrealistic and insane the movies have gotten. What started as a street-level franchise about cops, criminals, and car racing progressively became globe-trotting espionage spectacles filled with action, cars, and dozens of characters played by big-time actors. With the movies getting bigger, both in popularity and in budget and effects, the plots kept getting more complicated and the stories more ridiculous to…

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From the Collection: Targets

From the Collection: Targets

Targets, the directorial debut by Oscar-nominated writer and director Peter Bogdanovich, is the latest film to enter the Criterion Collection.  Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in Peter Bogdanovich’s debut film. Produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly)…

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Most Anticipated Movies of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival

Most Anticipated Movies of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary from May 5th through May 11th at Music Box Theater in Chicago. This is an excellent film festival that offers up some of the best and most exciting movies that have been making their way around the film festival circuit, as well as some classics. This year’s festival is loaded with great titles and here are a few that I am most excited about.   A Disturbance in the…

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Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  The opening credits of the first Guardians of the Galaxy saw Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) landing on a planet, entering a cave, putting on the headphones to his old Walkman cassette player, and playing “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone as he dances and struts through the cave. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the film’s opening credits are of Baby Groot dancing to “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra while…

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