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The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival has come to a close.  Throughout the two weeks of the festival, I saw 38 movies, 31 festival movies and seven regular release movies.  It was an exhausting two weeks and I saw a plethora of movies from all genres and all parts of the world.  In my ten years of attending this festival, this is easily the most movie I have seen but also the strongest year, including…

October is here and it is now officially the fall movie season.  This is the month where we start to get a clear picture of the Oscars and get some of the best movies of the year.  We also get in the Halloween spirit and get our fair share of horror movies.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming out in October.         5 – JIGSAW (Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig, October 27)…

This Friday, Blade Runner 2049 comes out, the sequel to the 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott.  A lot of people claim Blade Runner as one of the greatest and most influential movies of all-time.  I am not one of those people.  Now while I am excited for 2049, I would consider Blade Runner overrated.  This got me thinking of what other movies I would consider overrated.  So with that, here are my picks for the five most…

Netflix started streaming a number of masterpieces in September and although I wouldn’t consider this month to be filled with masterpieces, it does offer up some really good movie and some strong original programming.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in October.   You can see the full list of all movies and T.V. shows coming to Netflix this month right here.           5 – BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard…

I love Michael Keaton, simply love him.  I loved him when I first saw him in Batman (1989) and could not be happier for his recent career resurgence.  Every movie he is in, I get excited for, and his latest film, American Assassin, doesn’t have a lot going for it, but he is in it so I will see it.  Here are my picks for the best Michael Keaton movies, in honor of American Assassin.   These movies…

Yesterday, it was announced that director Colin Trevorrow is no longer directing Star Wars: Episode IX after he and Disney mutually agreed to part ways due to creative differences.  Personally, I am a big fan of this move.  I loved Trevorrow’s debut film, Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), but after the lackluster Jurassic World (2015) and the bizarre The Book of Henry (2017), I lost faith in Trevorrow as a director.  But now, the Star Wars franchise needs a new director, and…

Out of all the times I have done this Netflix article, I don’t know if there has been this strong of a month ever.  The five movies that I have listed here I would consider all to be masterpieces.  They are all very different in terms of genre, and yet still masterworks in their respective genres.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in September.   You can see the full…

The 2017 summer movie season is officially over!  This was a great summer movies.  I saw 41 movies over the last four months (49 total if you include the movies that were released this summer that  I saw earlier this year at Sundance), and most of them were good.  Some of them have made their way into my ten best movies of the year, others have made it on the bottom ten.  This list is…

Steven Soderbergh is a director I have a lot of admiration for.  He isn’t the most popular, nor does he have a perfect filmography.  But he is one of the most unique and daring directors we’ve ever seen, challenging his viewers with his use of different filmmaking styles and deep themes.  After retiring from the director’s chair for a few years, Soderbergh is back this Friday with Unsane, a film I am incredibly excited for.  So…