• December 31, 2024
      A movie like Nickel Boys is hard to write about because I can’t think of any movie I
  • December 31, 2024
      I first saw Brady Corbet’s historical epic The Brutalist back in October at the
  • December 31, 2024
      2024 has been a spectacular year for horror films. There have been a slew of horror
  • December 26, 2024
      There’s an interesting idea to Babygirl, writer/director Helena Reijn’s latest
  • December 26, 2024
      Watching Emilia Pérez felt like I was watching a movie made by five different

2024 Chicago International Film Festival Review: Grafted

2024 Chicago International Film Festival Review: Grafted

  Sasha Rainbow’s Grafted is a familiar body-horror movie elevated by its excellent direction and lead performance. Wei (Jess Hong) is a blossoming scientist continuing the controversial, yet innovative research on skin grafting begun by her late father so that she can “fix” the hereditary facial disfigurement. She gets a scholarship to study in New Zealand where she stays with her aunt and mean-girl cousin Angela (also played by Jess Hong). Wei catches the attention…

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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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Review: The Substance

Review: The Substance

You are not prepared for The Substance. I could tell you everything that happens in this movie and it still would not prepare you for what happens in the film. It is an epic, fearless, gross, shocking film featuring two dynamic performances. It’s as visceral a filmgoing experience as I have had in 2024. Demi Moore stars as Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging celebrity whose star has diminished since she peaked in the 80s. After getting…

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From the Collection: The Long Good Friday

From the Collection: The Long Good Friday

John Mackenzie’s London crime thriller The Long Good Friday has been given a 4k restoration from the Criterion Collection. A combustible performance from Bob Hoskins is the fuse that lights this underworld saga, a landmark of British crime cinema. Hoskins plays Harold Shand, an ambitious London mobster who, just as he attempts to close a major real-estate deal with the American Mafia, finds his crime empire rocked by a string of attacks, sending him on…

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Review: Alien: Romulus

Review: Alien: Romulus

  Alien: Romulus was a conflicting watch. I love the Alien franchise. It is one of my all-time favorite franchises. The world Ridley Scott built, and the unique sequels have made it one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time. But Alien: Romulus is not a great Alien film. It’s a fine Alien film that had some cool moments but didn’t expand the world as much as it could have nor did anything original….

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Review: Speak No Evil

Review: Speak No Evil

  James McAvoy gives a terrifying and brilliant performance in Speak No Evil, James Watkins’ American adaptation of Christian Tafdrup’s 2022 Danish thriller of the same name. Speak No Evil is almost beat for beat the same as the original until the film’s final act. Louise (Mackenzie Davis) and Ben (Scoot McNairy) are an American couple on vacation with their daughter in Tuscany. They befriend a British family, Paddy (James McAvoy) and Ciara (Aisling Franciosi),…

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Movie Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Movie Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is one of the best times I have had at the movies in 2024. Director Tim Burton returns to a form we have not seen from him in over a decade to give us an entertaining, hilarious, and heartfelt film that features spectacular sets, costumes, performances, and practical effects. Picking up 36 years after the original film, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice introduces us to adult Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder), a paranormal hunter with a successful…

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From the Collection: Le Samouraï

From the Collection: Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville’s iconic crime film Le Samouraï recently got a 4k upgrade from the Criterion Collection. In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is…

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