Speed of Life, 2020. Written and Directed by Liz Manashil. Starring Ann Dowd, Ray Santiago, Vella Lovell, Sean Wright, Allison Tolman, and Jeff Perry. SYNOPSIS: David Bowie’s death rocks the lives of June & Edward. The superstar’s passing rips a literal hole in the universe, sucking Edward in. Fast forward 24 years, an older June […]
Movie Review – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 Directed by J.J. Abrams Starring Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong’o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, Dominic Monaghan, Greg Grunberg, Jimmy Vee, and Billy Dee Williams SYNOPSIS: […]
Movie Review – Cats (2019)
Cats, 2019. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring Francesca Hayward, James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, Laurie Davidson, Mette Towley ,Robert Fairchild, Steven McRae, Ray Winstone, Larry Bourgeois, Laurent Bourgeois, Zizi Strallen, Eric Underwood, Melissa Madden-Gray, and Freya Rowley. SYNOPSIS: A tribe of cats called the […]
Movie Review – Spies in Disguise (2019)
Spies in Disguise, 2019. Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. Featuring the voice talents of Will Smith, Tom Holland, Ben Mendelsohn, Karen Gillan, Rashida Jones, DJ Khaled, Masi Oka, Rachel Brosnahan, and Reba McEntire. SYNOPSIS: When the world’s best spy is turned into a pigeon, he must rely on his nerdy tech officer to […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Waldemar Kobus, Sophie Rois, Maria Simon, and Nicholas Reinke. SYNOPSIS: The Austrian Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, a […]
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women upstage films from legendary veterans Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese with four 2019 CFCA Awards apiece
Last night, my colleagues and friends of the Chicago Film Critics Association got together to announce the lucky winners and, well, they let me down. Adam Sandler lost Best Actor to some other Adam that most definitely will not be seen in any other movies for the rest of the year – an all-around inferior […]
Movie Review – Black Christmas (2019)
Black Christmas, 2019. Directed by Sophia Takal. Starring Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Aleyse Shannon, Lucy Currey, Madeleine Adams, Ben Black, Simon Mead, and Caleb Eberhardt. SYNOPSIS: A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood leads CFCA Awards nominations, Martin Scorsese and Greta Gerwig’s films not far behind
For anyone following along what the current awards season, the big news here is not necessarily how well Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman are doing, but rather that Greta Gerwig’s fantastic modern-day reimagining of classical literature Little Women has not been left out to dry in the […]
Movie Review – Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Jumanji: The Next Level, 2019. Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Danny DeVito, Awkwafina, Danny Glover, Rhys Darby, Alex Wolff, Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Rory McCann, Dania Ramirez, Darin Ferraro, Sal Longobardo, Massi Furlan, Michael Beasley, Colin Hanks, and Ashley Scott. SYNOPSIS: In Jumanji: […]
Movie Review – Richard Jewell (2019)
Richard Jewell. 2019 Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Nina Arianda, Ian Gomez, Dylan Kussman, Mike Pniewski, Billy Slaughter, Niko Nicotera, Alex Collins, Desmond Phillips, Grant Roberts, Ronnie Allen, Garon Grigsby, Brian Brightman, David de Vries, and David Shae SYNOPSIS: American security guard Richard Jewell […]
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