Home Again, 2017 Written and Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer Starring Reese Witherspoon, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky, Pico Alexander, Lake Bell, Lola Flanery, Reid Scott, Eden Grace Redfield, Michael Sheen, and Candice Bergen SYNOPSIS: Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with […]
53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Last Flag Flying (2017)
Last Flag Flying, 2017. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson, Deanna Reed-Foster, Yul Vasquez, Graham Wolfe, Jeff Monahan, and Cicely Tyson. SYNOPSIS: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and […]
Movie Review – Mayhem (2017)
Mayhem, 2017. Directed by Joe Lynch. Starring Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Caroline Chikezie, Kerry Fox, Mark Frost, Dallas Roberts, Claire Dellamar, André Eriksen, Nikola Kent, Lucy Chappell, Annamaria Serda, and Steven Brand. SYNOPSIS: A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses. Allow me to describe the opening […]
53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird, 2017. Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton, Andy Buckley, Daniel Zovatto, Jordan Rodrigues, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year. In the hands […]
53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – The Square (2017)
The Square, 2017. Written and Directed by Ruben Ostlund. Starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Christopher Læssø, Marina Schiptjenko, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder, Sofie Hamilton, and Terry Notary. SYNOPSIS: The Square is a poignant satirical drama reflecting our times – about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for […]
53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Princess Cyd (2017)
Princess Cyd, 2017. Written and Directed by Stephen Cone. Starring Jessie Pinnick, Rebecca Spence, Malic White, James Vincent Meredith, Tyler Ross, and Matthew Quattrocki. SYNOPSIS: Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the […]
Movie Review – A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
A Bad Moms Christmas, 2017. Written and Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Jay Hernández, Oona Laurence, Justin Hartley, Peter Gallagher, Emjay Anthony, Lyle Brocato, Wanda Sykes, and Christina Applegate. SYNOPSIS: A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened […]
Movie Review – Novitiate (2017)
Novitiate, 2017. Written and Directed by Margaret Betts. Starring Margaret Qualley, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron, Liana Liberato, Denis O’Hare, Eline Powell, Morgan Saylor, Maddie Hasson, Ashley Bell, Chelsea Lopez, Rebecca Dayan, Chris Zylka, and Melissa Leo. SYNOPSIS: Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to […]
Movie Review – LBJ (2017)
LBJ, 2017. Directed by Rob Reiner. Starring Woody Harrelson, Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Michael Stahl-David, C. Thomas Howell, Michael Mosley, Rich Sommer, Judd Lormand, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House. Not many will debate against […]
Movie Review – Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Blade Runner 2049, 2017. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, David Dastmalchian, Barkhad Abdi, Lennie James, and Jared Leto. SYNOPSIS: A young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, […]
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