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Movies

‘Concrete Utopia’ (review)

Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s nomination for Best Foreign Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, is a tense thriller, a particularly honest class commentary, a...

Will McGuireDecember 14, 2023

Movies

‘Expendables 4’ (review)

The Expendables has always been a series that was better in concept than execution. Stallone envisioned it as both a reunion tour for the...

Will McGuireNovember 21, 2023

Movies

‘Next Goal Wins’ (review)

Taika Waititi is known for his goofy, manic, offbeat style of writing and directing. In Next Goal Wins, he applies this lens to the...

Kristen HalbertNovember 19, 2023

Movies

‘Showdown at the Grand’ (review)

Showdown at the Grand is about the power of movies to give our lives mythological meaning and the joy of finding your niche of...

Will McGuireNovember 10, 2023

Movies

‘Love Virtually’ (review)

If ever a movie could be said to be “of its time,” it’s Love Virtually. This movie is a satire of all-consuming modern technology....

Steven ThompsonNovember 7, 2023

Movies

‘The Kill Room’ (review)

The Kill Room has a clever and largely original plot. If only they had made a better movie out of it. My problem with...

Steven ThompsonNovember 7, 2023

Columns/Features

Benicio Del Toro Gets a Big Dish of Beef Chow Mein in ‘The Wolfman’

The Halloween season is in full swing here in the halls of Toxic Nostalgia Manor where the spirits haunt the home theater and the...

Kyle A. SeifertOctober 27, 2023

Animation

‘Gay Purr-ee’: Felinious Assault (Blu-ray review)

Judy Garland’s only animated role could have been a classic… but for who? There seems to be an unwritten rule that any review...

Thomas LakemanOctober 24, 2023

Movies

‘Past Lives’ (review)

Past Lives is about nonsense, but not the nonsense we normally talk about in this space. No supermen from another world are here to...

Will McGuireOctober 24, 2023

Movies

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (review)

Killers of the Flower Moon is flabby, unfocused, and at times, scattershot. It’s also a masterpiece. Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese develops and embellishes themes...

Will McGuireOctober 20, 2023

Columns/Features

Why John Woo’s ‘Bullet in The Head’ is The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies It was a brisk fifty-five degrees...

Will McGuireOctober 4, 2023

Movies

‘Head Count’ (review)

Head Count is a true surprise: an unheralded low budget release from a first time feature director (or in this case, a directing team)...

Will McGuireSeptember 29, 2023

Columns/Features

“You People are Sick, Wicked, Funky, Amisanthropic, Co-Dependent Animals!” Dan Aykroyd Makes His Directorial Debut With ‘Nothing But Trouble’

Have you ever gotten excited to see a movie and then decided that maybe you don’t want to see it when every review you...

Kyle A. SeifertSeptember 1, 2023

Columns/Features

Bruce Willis Tackles His Passion Project Playing a Singing Cat Burglar in ‘Hudson Hawk’

Hudson Hawk is the 1991 comedy, conceived by and starring Bruce Willis. In its day it was lambasted and labeled a bomb. Siskel and...

Kyle A. SeifertAugust 18, 2023

Columns/Features

‘Oppenheimer’ is Not The Bomb: Christopher Nolan’s Film is Brilliantly Designed But Fails to Detonate

A few weeks before the release of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan told Variety that “some people leave the movie absolutely devastated.” My response at the...

Thomas LakemanAugust 11, 2023