From left, Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan Some of you who have known me for awhile are painfully aware that my favorite kind of...

Benicio Del Toro (front left), Michael Cera (far back) and Mia Threapleton (front right) Somewhere in the world c1950, multi-millionaire...

NOTE: This blog post is not a review of 1989's classic film, Field of Dreams or of the musical quality of the Chicago Symphony...

The first film version of a Jane Austen novel was Pride and Prejudice back in 1940, starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. Then...

SPOILER ALERT : There are a few references that may lessen the experience for diehard MI fans. Years ago (2009, to be precise), I got...

Pope Francis. He was the first (and, so far, only) pope to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine (January 28, 2014). He was the...

Sinners Poster. Just the movie we needed on a spring Easter weekend: a Black vampire horror musical that spans six decades in the 20th...

My introduction to the music of Ray Davies and the Kinks came from a cover track included on Gary Lewis & the Playboys' 1965 album, This...

The Musketeers: Porthos (Frank Finley), Athos (Oliver Reed), D'Artagnan (Michael York) and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) NOTE: News of...

The first time I entered writer-director Steven Soderbergh's fast-paced, upscale urban world was thirty-five years ago when I watched his...

Did you stay awake? Last night's Oscar show was another hodge podge of fun, whimsy, tedium and surprises, and clocked in at 4 hours, 19...

With apologies to Randy Newman and all those wonderful filmmakers who work in the non-feature format, we have another eclectic collection...

Based on last year's response to "I'm Just Ken," I'm following up with another Oscar-related parody. Not one of this year's Original Song...

NOTE: Spoilers may occur, otherwise the review wouldn't make sense. But, given the date of this posting, some of you may have already...

I remember the first time I saw Gone With the Wind. I must have been ten or twelve years old and the movie was returning to theaters for...

At first blush, the story of an aging Las Vegas showgirl (Pamela Anderson) and a depressed black woman of similar age living in London...

Well, that was fun - last week's usually uninspired, often tedious, generally unimpactful Golden Globe awards. First-time host,...

Back in 1990, the often acerbic New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael snidely commented that first time director Kevin Costner's new epic...

NOTE: As of this writing - and not coming to a Chicago theater until after the new year - I had not yet seen Nickel Boys and The...

NOTE: There is a spoiler alert identified ahead. I'm already imagining the memes. Nicole Kidman slurping milk from a dish, getting down...